One way or another

Hello friends from everywhere !

Today's lesson will be a little bit informal and innapropriate for the wine addicts you are. Maybe you'll think I'm crazy, I'm not very gracefull. But believe me friends, things happen, and YOU have to be prepared. In France we say : "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". So today's lesson could be the just in case advice you should keep in your mind and maybe one day you will thank me.

Imagine this day, this terrible day, however it started in a good way : you are with your friends, wanted to share a bottle of our favourite nectar. Not a Grand Cru, not a THRBBGSGW (Terrible High Ruining Bottle But God it's Such a Good Wine). Just a bottle of wine, bought to spend a good moment. But as you want to open it, TRAGEDY, DISASTER, MISADVENTURE !!! Nobody has a bottle-opener (it's time to think about changing your friends, they are baaaad, you can't trust them !). If this day comes, now you will be prepared, because it's possible to open a bottle of wine without a bottle-opener, true story ! You just have to implement the lesson of the day.

1) Take your shoe off

2) Put the bottom of the bottle inside your shoe

3) Hit a (not white) wall with the sole of your shoe

With the pression, the cork will automatically get out of the bottle, after it, you will be able to pull it away and open the bottle !

Good luck friends, and if you experience this kind of opening, please share your videos with us !

Marie-Lou

Initials B.B

Initials B.B

All the way up to its cork

It is fizzy

And it’s like a Chalice

Holds its beauty

It’s caring nothing else

Than one species

The essence of Chardonnay

Running into B.B

“Pop” rocks baby! Gainsbourg got it, so did Champagne five centuries before him. This region was the first to introduce to the world the lovely sound of a nice and traditional POP. The POP we like to ear, totally wasted at the marriage of some random people.

Blanc de Blanc is one of the most famous champagne on earth. So let me take you in my sparkling-wine strip, let’s talk bubbles, let’s go POP, BLOP… WIIIIZ!

French people are said to be classy, haughty and sexy. The person who said that probably never put one foot in this country. The very first thing you are going to ear in France after “Passport please” is gonna be “APEROOO!!!!”.

Yeah foreigners! That’s what I call a big turn off. Thanks god, our culture is watching our back and here comes Blanc de Blanc. This champagne is perfect as a pre-dinner drink and it’s going to bring you and our bad habits back together.

“Eating is cheating”…. TRUE! But you will be starving at some point, so feed yourself baby, I’m coming with the perfect match for you. This champagne happens to be great with sea food, especially in foil parcels.

Slow down kids! Before you start cooking, you may like to put your nose in this glass. You will smell flavours of vanilla, coffee and toasted bread. 

If you don’t, try to focus and stop listening to the person next to you, trying to make you feel bad about it. There is nothing to be ashamed of. Those things come with time and experience. You will be able to smell it soon or later. Just keep doing it when you have the chance to.

Before, I let you go. You may like to know B.B has a fency Baby sister : Blanc de Bleu. Made in California, 100% Chardonnay, this sparkling wine is… Drum roll please…. BLUE. 

With an added hint of blueberries, this sexy liquid is going to drive crazy. Really expensive, you better have some cash if you want to impress the next person you’re taking on a date!

Here’s the link : http://www.blancdebleu.com. 

Marie. 

How I met your bloggers

HOW I MET

YOUR BLOGGERS

Kids, I’m going to tell you an incredible story, the story of how I met your bloggers.

Let’s go back two months ago. I just arrived in Bordeaux, trying to make it as a new student in the city of wine. Life was pretty damn good… until I met your bloggers.

As all good stories, this one begins at a reception. Being a student in France requires one only thing: being fairly smart to know where it’s possible to get food and alcohol for free. If you’re wily enough to find those spots, you will graduate in this country. That’s the beauty of French paradox: we do the same as many as other people around the world but the consequences are exponentially cooler.

Anyway, the main goal of this party was to meet other students from Bordeaux. Direct translation: You’re alone and desperate; we’ve got some wine and pizzas, come and try to get laid. 

The party started at 5pm. Thirty-five minutes and six glasses later, I was a super wine heroin, ambassador of a really bad Chardonnay. At this precise moment, your aunt Marie-Lou showed up. Apparently, she just lost a Shi-Fu-Mi game. As a punishment, her coworkers made her refill all wine glasses. She asked for help and we started talking.


While we were exchanging some thoughts and bitching about the system, we heard from nowhere: “HAHA! It’s scandalous!”… Kids! That’s the very first thing you need to know about your grand-pa Pierre-Adrien, he loves to say it’s scandalous. Most of the time, it’s totally inappropriate but he was born this way baby.

A nice blond girl – who happens to be your godmother, Adeline - was right next to us. Pierre-Adrien’ scandalous story seemed to crack her up. She went like “Seriously dude? 

This is just some cheese in your pizza”. We decided to celebrate this literary event and Kids… THAT’S HOW WE MET.


This story has no sense of right or wrong but it will teach you the first and most important thing you have to know about wine: few glasses and everything 

Marie. 

Marie-Lou 

Pierre-Adrien

Adeline

Marie