Try to remember how come to France, you tried to order a drink priglyanuvshiysya. And how dramatically different that you have from what you expected, suggesting that wine - it is in Africa wine ... I like locals, posmeivayas, popivali something incomprehensible, but they seem to be very native ... Of course, traveled to France, vsenepremenno you should get acquainted with the noble beverage, which is famous for this country. And your understanding of them will change radically, sponsor.
Sparkling wine drinking even the ancient Romans. Settlers from Greece on Don made sparkling wines at the beginning of our era. In France, in Lima, playing wine drinks are able to do early in the XVI century, while in Champagne production mastered only at the end of the XVII century, in 1688. But the way the secondary fermentation invented it in the province of Champagne. Today, many processes are automated, but small grape farm Champagne prefer to maintain the naturalness of production.
As for the unique French wines, the most expensive and prestigious wines of France, of course, from Bordeaux. His ancestry bordoskie wines are from 1855. Then the leaders decided that retain the title of the best and prestige today. Here it is, a great five - Chateau Latour, Chateau Lafite Rotschild, Chateau Mouton Rotschild, Chateau Haut Brion and Chateau Margaux.
Form bottles - Business card region. Each of the wine-making regions of France has its own characteristic form of the bottle. The classic feel bordoskuyu, high, with steep shoulders. At the bottom of it - dimple. Such "Anatomy" is due to characteristics of wines from Bordeaux. They are usually always with the draft. In the groove at the base of the bottle sediment that accumulates. When the wine Nalivaj, shoulders hamper draft falling into the glass. Do not shoulder Burgundy bottles, because the sediment in wines from Burgundy are rare. Rest in Burgundy Lyon this drink French wines from this French bottles.
Incidentally, in Ukraine Ivano-Frankivsk, in Ukraine works only company manufacturing oak barrels for wine. The French have already bought hundreds. In the past year, the wine exhibition in the city Marceau in the French province of Burgundy wine from the barrel of Ukraine recognized the best.
In the south-east of France is best to drink red wine from local vineyards. Lovers pokrepche also found that the taste while traveling in Provence.
In France, producing two types of spirits on the basis of anise - anise and pastis. In Provence traditional spirits considered pastis - 45-50 degrees. Local people usually razvodyat pastis 50/50 with water and drink with ice. On the coast is very popular perroke - pastis with mint syrup and ice.
One of the symbols of France - absinthe - now banned in the country. Absinthe - strong drink, usually containing 70% alcohol. A key component of Absinthe is wormwood, the essential oils which contains tuyon. In large quantities it is poison. But precisely because it absinthe is known for its effect. Absinthe's popularity soared during the French colonial wars in North Africa, which began in 1830 and reached a peak in the years 1844-1847.
The French military issued a certain amount of absinthe for the prevention of malaria, dysentery and other diseases, as well as for disinfection of drinking water. Absinthe has been so effective that the firm has entered into the French army life from Madagascar to Indochina. At the same time in the army in North Africa have become increasingly meet paranoidnoy cases of schizophrenia, known as "le cafard". In 1880 absinthe is widely spread in France. When French soldiers from the African battalion returned to France, they brought with them and their addiction to absinthe.
Soon, this habit was transferred from military to the bourgeoisie. Respectable bourgeois custom of drinking absinthe has become virtually universal. Then, it was thought that absinthe improves the appetite before dinner. The time between five and seven hours of the evening was called "l" heure verte ", the green hour, and at this time of the smell of absinthe nosilsya in predvechernem air boulevards. The popularity of absinthe in France was equal to the popularity of wine. Absent made many alcoholics, but the disease is called absentizmom. Its use was considered even a ticket in the madhouse. Absent banned. But who are looking for, he always will be - illegally in Paris, absinthe is still selling. Go to Paris and look in the windows of the small inscription with the name of the drink.
No one would argue that France is home to the most noble beverage. "Readily Izgotovit fine cognac. All you need for this - great-grandfather, grandfather and father who devoted his entire life" (Jean-Paul Camus). The birth of cognac - is a complex process, lasting years and decades. Ready BRANDY alcohols kupazhiruyut with distilled water, sugar syrup and color, adding they also are a number vyderzhannogo old cognac. After excerpts cognac acquired yantarno-golden hue, sweet aroma with a slight tone of vanilla and distinctive taste. The city of Cognac is widely known around the world thanks to the glory of the noble cognac. It is 465 km from Paris (3 hours by speed train) in the 120km from Bordeaux and 100 km from Rochelle.
Of all the brandy produced in France, rivalry cognac can perhaps only an Armagnac. Armagnac, however, more ancient drink - the first mention of it among the XV century and the first sale dates from the year 1411. The dispute about the comparative merits of Armagnac and Cognac is still ongoing.
Armagnac is produced in the south-east France, where you can relax perfectly. Bas Armagnac - is the best area for the receipt of the beverage. In order to be known as Armagnac, the drink must meet several requirements. First, to be made in Armagnac, a local wine derived from traditional grape varieties, secondly, to undergo a double distillation, which should be completed before April 30, the year following the year of harvest, and thirdly, the test rules quality.
If cognac valued consistency, in Armagnac, in contrast, the volatility. Drinks different years of production the same house can have a different flavor and aroma. At the bottles you will always find a vintage year, which is defined and quality. Good Armagnac demonstrates an interesting variety of scents. The most common of them are considered to be seven scents: hazelnut, peach, violets, lime, vanilla, prunes and pepper.
If you prefer a vacation in Normandy, do not miss the opportunity to drink the local Calvados, which is produced by distillation of Sidra (fermented apple juice). Superfine taste and bouquet of Calvados, revered as the most exquisite gourmet dizhestiv, due to the interaction of wood, air and alcohol.
Since we are talking about France, Calvados inevitably has its appelyason - in this case, meant the set of rules defining the permissible class way of distillation and maturation drink. Permissible to use more than 40 varieties of apples and pears, divided into four groups: sweet, bitter, bitter-sweet and sour.
Like any other phenomenon, wine, with all its remarkable characteristics is in itself not good and not evil - the thing in quantity. Going to tour France, do not forget that you have to have back.
