Category: Culture & Ideas
So… This Is Bordeaux
Posted by A. Kraft | Dec 8, 2024 | Between sips, Culture & Ideas, MP, Travel | 0 |
A Museum About the Past That Keeps Moving With Time
by A. Kraft | Sep 5, 2026 | Between sips, Culture & Ideas, MP, Travel | 0 |
Musée d’Orsay turns 40! A look inside the museum where art, history, giant clocks and a former railway station come together.
Read MoreDo We Actually Have to Open the Bottle?
by A. Kraft | Mar 6, 2025 | Between sips, Culture & Ideas, Market Sips | 0 |
Do we actually have to open the bottle? From Saint-Émilion discovery to Wine Wednesday math, long-term preservation and a few stubborn corks, here’s why my Coravin isn’t going anywhere.
Read MoreWine Has a Museum. Of Course I Went.
by A. Kraft | Feb 26, 2025 | Between sips, Culture & Ideas, Travel | 0 |
La Cité du Vin is much more than a wine museum. From grape varieties and vineyard traditions to history, culture, and wines from around the world, it’s an immersive look at just how far the story of wine can take you.
Read MoreSaint-Émilion: Oh… I Know That Château
by A. Kraft | Jan 28, 2025 | Between sips, Culture & Ideas, Travel | 0 |
Wine shop. Another wine shop. Another one. Saint-Émilion had familiar château names everywhere, plenty of wine to discover and one very happy wino wandering through it all.
Read MoreSo… This Is Bordeaux
by A. Kraft | Dec 8, 2024 | Between sips, Culture & Ideas, MP, Travel | 0 |
Bordeaux was about much more than wine—although, yes, there was plenty of that. From vineyards and château visits to the city itself, here’s what made the trip so memorable.
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