Michel au boulot@Salon des Vins de Loire 2009
Super series of photos from the 2011 edition of Vinexpo by Michel here on Les 5 du Vin.
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This week there are two complementary posts on Les 5 du Vin on organic wine. Firstly on Monday David Cobbold wrote about what annoyed him about organic wine. Then, today, Michel Smith posed 15 questions on organic wine here.
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Saint-Bacchus: Jim, Christine Ontivèro, Michel Smith and André Dominé
Saint-Bacchus: Liz Morcom MW, Lisa Barnard, Jim, Tim Johnston, Giles MacDonogh, Tim Atkin and Anthony Rose
Saint-Bacchus (another year): includes Myriam Huet, Olivier Poussier, Stephen Brook, Tim Atkin
Circle of Wine Writers tasting: John Livingstone-Learmonth, unknown, Alastair Mackenzie, Lilyane Weston, Charlotte Lessing, Pamela Vandyke Price, John McNerney (behind)
Arising from a serendipitous meeting over a glass of Pierre-Jacques Druet's Bourgueil Rosé at lunch in the press room at the Salon des Vins de Loire on Tuesday, five of us decided to launch a bi-lingual, cooperative blog: Les 5 du Vin
The five are:
Jacques Berthomeau
Jacques also has his own blog, which he started in 2005. He won the Loire section in the 2010 Wine Bloggers Trophy
Jacques also has his own blog, which he started in 2005. He won the Loire section in the 2010 Wine Bloggers Trophy
Hervé Lalau
Hervé also has his own blog, which he started in November 2007. It has attracted nearly 400,000 visitors and won the award for the best writing in the 2010 Wine Bloggers Trophy.
Michel Smith
Michel is a well-known wine and food journalist based in the Roussillon. He writes for a number of French magazines but is a virgin blogger.
Marc Vanhellemont
Marc is a well known wine journalist based in Belgium, writing for a number of French and Belgian titles. Like Michel, he is a virgin blogger.
Marc is a well known wine journalist based in Belgium, writing for a number of French and Belgian titles. Like Michel, he is a virgin blogger.
Jim Budd
Each of the five contributors will make at least one posting a week: Jacques on Monday, Jim – Tuesday, Hervé – Wednesday, Michel – Thursday and Marc – Friday.
Have just come across this shot I took during this year's Salon des Vins de Loire – the redoubtable and revered wine critic, Michel Smith, interrogating the wines of Christian Papin, Domaine de Haute Perche in Saint-Melaine-sur-Aubance. Small wonder Christian looks worried!
