1500 wines to taste, great treat

First day of Sud du France forum international d`affaires and the Millesime Bio Fair is ended with some more than 1500 wines from the Languedoc-Roussillon region and let me tell you straight away that I did not try them all, but a few hundreds I did for sure, will get my notes together some day and let you know.

Invited for these days of tastings are 210 people from around the world invited to learn more of the region and the wines from here, we will have three more full days of tastings even more wines.

This region is known for simple but good wines in lower/mid range with many everyday drinking wines ( if you are French) but I was very surprised to find some exciting products that can hit the market big time.

I have scheduled meeting with 20 producers on Wednesday to know more about them and to try some more wines in their range, I look forward to this with great pleasure.

My favourite from the region is as always the fortified sweet wines from Banyuls and Rivesaltes that is so neglected in the Wineworld, you have to try them instead of Port sometimes.

How can you taste so many wines in one day? People often ask me that, well…not to swallow is the first rule and next is to be focused and write down what you taste, then of course a lot of training.

When I attend big tastings I prefer to plug in some music for not been disturbed by my fellow tasters who often can be very loud and talkative J when they see my white plugs they get the message. Bug off.

Tomorrow is a new day of even more wines with the focus of BIO and Organic from around the world, interesting and challenging.

Talk to you again soon.

Local Competition

This is a small presentation about localy produced products competition.



http://youtu.be/LvKTlKhhES0

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1* star in Barcelona worth wile

Visiting Barcelona is always a very special treat and lot of fun especially with food crazy friends.

The last night we went in for the last supper at Dos Palillos the small 1* star tapas bar and tried the 18 curse menu with sake all thru the meal, great combo with the Asian flavours that the kitchen was presenting.

Sashimi on chicken was the talk of the evening I must admit, very unusual and no no for every chef to serve raw chicken but what the hell we went all in for this dish of amazing texture and flavour with some added toasted sesame seeds and rock salt.

The food was in general very good with some small dips for my taste but worthwhile sitting on the kitchen counter at watch the game go on. Very nice job chefs.

Here are some of the food that we hade and thanks to Andreas for taking the bill.