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The crowd Paris, 12th arrondissement, This was another beautiful edition of La Goulayance , and it took place again in the premises of Ground Countrol , this vibrant venue set in a former railway locomotive workshop, I cant but encourage you to visit the place, have a drink, read books, play games, whatever this place offers which is pretty diverse, and families are welcome. Entry fee was 10 �, you were given a glass which you could keep after tasting the exciting natural wines of many vintners, who were present of course to chat with visitors and buyers. You could buy cases of wines or individual bottles on the site, that was also the good thing, direct from the producers. The vintn,ers took also time to walk around and taste their colleagues/friends wines of course and Im sure thats also what brought many of them here. I didnt taste many of them alas, having to ride my bike b...

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Easy cooking This is autumn and were in the middle of troubled times with rising prices including for everything related to food, but theres still room for indulging in tasty meat dishes like the one Im going to tell you about. Energy is also getting a subject were getting told to worry, and good cooking often often needs to be long. You know Ive been a longtime fan of everything off-the-grid and these days are the good time to experiment in this direction if youre still on the mainstream consumer side : all you need is a good old stove upon which you can sit a pan or a pot. Meat aisle find Speaking of food prices meat prices have also become much higher and it annoys me because Im definetely a meat lover and particularly a red-meat lover (I know I shouldnt brag about it, its become politically uncorrect to love meat, and even worse for red meat, but Im unrepentant...) but...

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Harvest scene at Julien Prevel Cher valley, Loire I managed to get in time in my Loire hideout just in time for the last days of harvest and toured a few producers, some by myself and some with Lexie Jordan who was at the time picking with Julien Prevel . Lexie is living in Paris mostly and she imports wine for her San Francisco-based company Funk De Funk (actually in Mill Valley, Marin county). Several producers had in fact already just finished picking, some still had a couple parcels yet to be picked, for which they were waiting for a bit more maturity. This story will be most a picture story, first because I/we visited unannounced (in some instances there was no body near the chai/cellar and wed just move and try our luck elsewhere) and our hosts were busy or enjoying quietness at last after several weeks of stress, and also because the end of harvest is just, like, relax,...

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Zolt�n Németi & Zolt�n Kerekes Gy�ngy�spata , M�tra (Hungary) This was really a quick visit here, were here at Hoop Wines which is run by two childhood friends, Zolt�n Németi and Zolt�n Kerekes who make wine from a small overall surface 1,5 hectare, plus from the equivalent of 0,5 hectare of purchased grapes, for a total yearly production of 5 to 6000 bottles. Were here in a family house in the village that was refurbished as a small winery facility by Zolt�n Kerekes who had himself a 10-year experience working in a local winery. Zolt�n Németi is himself an IT specialist in Budapest and spends his weekends here for this venture. This small facility has all the hygiene requirements needed for a safe winemaking, mostly theres the main room which we could call the chai (they press inside), and a barrel room on the side which does the job of a cellar. Asked if...

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M�ty�s P�ger in his cellar Gy�ngy�spata, M�tra (Hungary) Here we are again in the village of Gy�ngy�spata in the M�tra wine region, and it was a short stroll from one cellar street to another and we reached this haven of quietness where M�ty�s P�ger , his wife Judit and his brothers family were finishing their picnic outside one of his cellars (this is the one where he readies and labels his bottles). I had met M�ty�s a couple months ago in Budapest at Vinopiano , an excellent wine bar with rebel wines. His day job is working in real estate in the big city but his passion is to make wine here in Matra from a small surface mostly located in the prized terroir of Gereg. His farming is fully organic and in the cellar he doesnt use additives, doesnt filter his reds and uses minimum so2 if any. M�ty�s P�gers yearly production is around 6000 bottles, mostly Kékfrankos...

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Bal�zs & Julianna in a parcel Szucsi , M�tra (Hungary) Were here in a village named Szucsi (pronounce sweetchie or something like that) which sits along a gentle slope surrounded by vineyards (see the pic on the left, best viewpoint on the village for Bal�zs who stops there when he has something to do in his parcels). The village is located probably much less than 3 kilometers as the crow flies from Gy�ngy�spata and thats where Bal�zs Palya (who has a day job as electrical engineer) and his girlfriend Julianna (or Julcsi) Mész�ros (who works in the logistics sector) started a small wine farm in 2019 with little grapes to work with, part from their garden, part given to them by Juliannas family. This is a passion thing for them and their prime intent when they started this was to remain sustainable both in the vineyard and the cellar, just let the wine express its...

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Andr�s & Kinga in front of their cellar Gy�ngy�spata , M�tra (Hungary) The wine region of M�tra sits on the M�tra hills which, on the way from Budapest when you drive north east to Eger and Tokaj and it grows a majority of white varieties. M�tra is sitting on volcanic slopes as many of these hills were volcanoes I guess (see pic on left, sorry for the pylons in the foreground), and while the wine region keeps a low profile on the international scene (compared to Tokaj and Eger) I was myself suprised to learn that it is the 2nd largest among the 22 wine regions of Hungary (#19 patch on the linked map). The deep history roots of this region shows up in the many cellars found in every village there, its pretty easy to spot them because in Hungary cellars are often built just outside the villages and away from the farms (closer to the parcels I guess), with a tiny house sitti...

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