eric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 20 2008 | wine, France, appellation
I've been drinking more French wine lately and noticed that a couple had come from the Saint-Estèphe appellation. I was wondering where that was. Turns out it's the nothernmost appellation of the Médoc, separated from Lafite-Rothschild, one of the most expensive Châteaux, by a stream.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 15 2008 | amazon.com, news, France
Yikes. I'm not sure if this strategy to get French law changed will work. We'll see...
Quoted: Amazon.com is challenging French competition law
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 08 2007 | art, museums, news, thepugetnews, France, Paris, Claude Monet
Vandals broke into the Musée d’Orsay early Sunday morning, punching a 4 inch hole in a famous Monet painting as well as leaving "various bits of filth" before fleeing security guards.
Quoted: Intruders left a tear close to four inches long in the painting “The Argenteuil Bridge,” at the Orsay Museum.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 18 2007 | sports, france, tour de france, Floyd Landis, Greg Lemond, Lance Armstrong, doping, bicycling
Things are not going so well for Floyd Landis when his attorney gets fired in the courtroom for making threatening phone calls to a witness.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 17 2006 | skiing, ski, La Grave, France, Doug Coombs, extreme, news
Doug Coombs, a well-known extreme skier that used to work at Jackson, recently died while trying to rescue one of his friends in the French Alps.
Quoted: A deadly accident during an outing at La Grave, on the French Alps, has focused attention on extreme skiing.
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