le quatorze juillet

Bastille Day is the perfect excuse to have a diversified taste of duck, even living down under. It was not an improvised move, so we had a plan in place to execute over the last three days. Recent explorations have made it really easy to find certain essentials like "les rillettes de pur canard", "bloc de foie gras de canard" or "terrine de canard".

A few "rustique" baguettes from Victoire, plus a wine selection from our neighbour Rommuald (the French wine man) provided a proper vibe. The mandatory kir opened this "petit événement", for which we engaged with Rommie's suggestion: a 2008 Guillemot-Michel, Pierrette et Marc, (100% chardonnay) from Quintaine, part of the Viré-Clessé region in the Mâconnais. It was actually saucisson what first got us started in the early stage of this celebratory gathering, to spend together with Stephen, Cheryl and her  Grégoire, who made us all cry with his irrepressible sense of humour. 

We moved onto a 2006 Chateau du Champ des Treilles (Sainte-Foy, Bordeaux) which was going to be followed, in no literal order, by a very nice Larmandier-Bernier -Premier Cru- champagne, an organic and biodynamic 2008 Clos du Rouge Gorge (100% grenache) from the Languedoc Roussillon area, plus a 2006 Jacqueson Cuvée 734 (54% chardonnay, 26% pinot meunier and 20% pinot noir) from Dizy. Litres of Badoit also joined us "à la table".

Another fancy ratatouille and a new selection of cheeses helped our nutritious "entente cordiale" .The sweet part of the day came again through the mastered techniques of Victoire's team. Kakawa also contributed with their divine cherry rocky road, as an encore for this tremendous effort of "frenchaussieness".