Monthly Archive for March, 2008

French Cab Franc for WBW 44

Video podcaster Gary Vaynerchuk is our host for our next virtual tasting and he’s just selected French Cabernet Franc as the theme. While you can find some Bordeaux blends made up from a majority of Cab Franc — most notably Chateau Cheval Blanc — most of us will look to the Loire valley. There you can find some great wines made at places like Bourgueil, Chinon and Saumur-Champigny. Alternatively, you can look for examples from the south of France where Gary was recently tasting. Either way, pick up a bottle and blog it by April 2nd. Just post your entry to Gary’s comments for this episode of Wine Library TV and he’ll figure out some way to summarize this event.

If you are living under a rock and have not watched Gary’s podcast, check out the following video queued up about where he makes his WBW announcement:

Note: aggregator readers may need to click back to the blog to view this video.

Round-up of WBW 43 Posted

Joel has posted a fine summary of the entries to WBW 43 over at Wine Life Today. In all, a nice turnout and some great stories & wines were blogged. Many thanks are in order to host Joel who welcomed his second daughter into the world just a few days shy of this Wine Blogging Wednesday.

Next month’s theme will be announced shortly but I have a feeling we’ll be picking wines from Bourgueil, Chinon and Saumur-Champigny.

Stay tuned.