Friday, October 3, 2008

Paris Wine Bars : Le Mauzac

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Kathleen Pouring a Michel Juliot 2003 (Pinot Noir)
This is a quiet street in a corner of the 5th arrondissement in Paris, far from any metro station, and the short, leafy stretch of street where Le Mauzac is located has the serenity feel of a french-province town. The neighborhood owes its character to the universities and publishing houses, this is an intellectual center of gravity which unlike the lower Saint-Germain-des-Près has not been disturbed by the invasion of fashion/apparel stores and cheap tourist eateries. wine
The Mauzac name comes from a Southern-France grape variety, the Mauzac, which is used to make lightly-sweet white sparklings, the most well-known being the Blanquette de Limoux, a sparkling which was already famous more than a century before Champagne was invented. Much more cultivated several hundreds years ago, it is now a minor grape variety mainly grown in the Gaillac region. You can spot the Gaillac region on the map showed on the lower part of this
Source:http://www.wineterroirs.com/page/5/

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