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Frenchie!

The guides call it the trendiest of "neo-rosbiff Meals" , the Express Style has vapors and Fooding has already made a cook in 2009. On paper, everything would have had to keep us away from Frenchie. Too Parisian too trendy, too incensed to be honest. Like what, you should never rely on his a priori ...

The Frenchie, really deserves. And not just because you have to start three weeks in advance to reserve a table in the evening. No. But because it must accept to lose in the open trail, between the Nile and Fishmonger. Slalom between deliverers tissue Des Forges, in alleys embarrassed Truck insensitive to your culinary emergencies, to finally lead to the famous face "bistro-dont-all-the-world-talk ..." .

And finally happened because the door stubbornly refuses to open ...

But once inside, that's good: the room is cozy, you are greeted with a smile (si!) and - surprise divine - on a large mirror extends a selection of wines that unmistakable south not: Nile Street, Richaud and Senate hold the upper hand. You can find even the very confidential "It's like C" Palacios ... The glass! He might play the modest the iconoclastic owner has good taste .. .

"The wine I do not know!" says Greg Marchand (pictured with his trophy Fooding 2009), refining his "Shepperd's pie" . "So I choose to serve ... And I let myself be guided. Advisor. All these, they are met ..." And beautiful

meetings ... In glasses, a signed Rasteau Elodie Balme sharpens the taste buds. Grenache and Syrah all alone on the slide "Beetroot Salad with orange juice and hibiscus" and "Cabbage Soup Pontoise chutney apple kimchi. strange dialogue between North London and suburbs Paris, the colonial India and South Rhone Valley .

Between mouthfuls, we take a look through the kitchen window where Frenchie activated alone. D them "carrots and olives bream purple" slide already the hatch ...

"Do not miss the chocolate pot ... A simple cream with fresh lychees. A delight!" We glide Sophie, the waitress- blogger that was known in another life in Omnivore .

A marvel, it was confirmed. So, after leaving the restaurant, an hour later, we promised to return quickly. Maybe one night this time ... And then you feel a little lost. There is even a few seconds to realize that one is not beside the Thames, but in the open trail. At the heart of Paris. Yes, definitely, at this French- there is an exotic lunch in town.

The Frenchie , 5 rue du Nil, 75002 Paris. 21/25 euro single menu for lunch, 31/35 the evening.

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Such a pretty little vine ... The VDMA

is a hillside of Grenache and Cinsault, against the foothills of the Pyrenees. Planted in 69, these venerable vines survived the madness "Bordeaux" who seized the Malepère twenty years ago. And the crisis that grows each year tens of grubbing winegrowers ... But he was a close call last spring. This time, they owe their salvation to the determination of the inevitable Palacios.

"I'm pleased that this be you! "said the former owner of Frederick, topant in there." Actually, I waited. Anyway, where was it to sell to a neighbor who wanted to make a motocross track for his son ... So ... "

So he sold ... For the price of land and the uprooting of the premium. A few thousand euros and a bonus-old fig trees flower, a handful of cherry trees, some oaks and a piece of slope entwined with thorns.

Yes, it's a pretty vine ... And the fact that it is exposed to the North does not hurt the case. Here, when it snows, the soil stays white a little longer as a neighbor. And summer, the earth is fresh - it seems - more often than not. But she has trouble keeping this land, eroded by four decades of chemical weed control. The ground has slipped. The gullies were dug. Here and there the vines jerk. They do a thread. Tenuous. A real puzzle.

"should return the land, Frederick grin, scratching his head. But it is a mammoth task. It will bring back the grass. Bringing life actually ... That's it! We will let her live a little ... let the soil recover strength. Do not stress the animal. Never mind if the next harvest is meager. She needs to breathe a bit this vine. Do not stress ...".

signed soon, Frederick has been the paperwork for conversion to organic. And then he started to work. Slowly. Mid-January to the vigneron 'Arzens has cut its old vines. In cup, as it should. And after? "we'll see" , as he says ... Every month as it comes. A vineyard is not reborn in a day.

can also read "the inescapable Malepère" and remember to a small quiz where you had already seen this famous vineyards ...

PS: Fred is looking for a name for his future vintage Grenache / Cinsault ... To your good heart, gentlemen and ladies!

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I forgot to tell you ... The VindemesAmis was selected to compete in Wine Blog Trophy . You can participate in voting ball in there, with a click. More than a week ... I say this, I say nothing!

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A "good wine" is how much?

When friends are torn between size and lounges, where the crisis sharpens the temptation to blow the labels, it is useful to revisit the results from the small survey that accompanied this blog for two years:

"What is the price of a good wine? "

Title vicious, if any, in a world where happy blend taste and price, value and label. It was a trick question. It does not have the answer to be enlightening ...

final result: a "good wine", for 77% of visitors to the blog, it's worth less than 15 euros ... Not stingy, however, 67% of 700 voters believe you need to know to open her purse (paid over 10 euros). But only 19% think that there is no salvation under 15 euros (less than 3% below 30 euros). In fact the majority (48%) is found in the Bermuda Triangle Business now be called "ten to fifteen" .

Note 1 (for friends who wince at their computers ...): 15 euros is not small. This is the price of Château "aged in oak" we put on the table once a year during the holiday meals (Which usually has to taste anything). is 4-5 times the average price of a bottle bought in supermarkets .

Note 2: This final score radically contradicts the notion (advanced by a U.S. study ) of "more is more expensive is good" . And that's your fault you, Authors of wine ... It is you who have made us discover that money does not necessarily happy taste buds. That side of the highway wineries, there are short cuts, scented maquis where the hand of man has returned to the mistress Wine. You have been educated. We've got a taste.

So please, do not look through the new kids who find your "wine a bit expensive, no?" . Tell your story instead. Explain the time spent under the dodger, uncertainty, risk, adventure ... The desire to recover the land, the little hands that have replaced machinery and chemicals to produce better, finer, fairer. Make pedagogy. Again and again. Because your wine is you, your love of the land and grapes. And it is priceless.

can also read previous episodes : "Let us dare to talk about money" , Painful head and pick and "Fair Price" . As the famous American study mentioned above: "how marketing affects the perception of pleasure" (in Vo, sorry).