The word Bordeaux tickles sense memory, conjuring the deep colors and lavish aromas of medium- and full-bodied red wines with tannic gravitas. Château Clarke, which sits on roughly 150 hectares in Bordeaux’s Listrac-Médoc appellation, produces such wines—and yet their white, Le Merle Blanc, represents something of greater rarity. Few estates in the Médoc nurture white wine varietals; even fewer offer a white wine as elegant …
For almost 400 years, 14 generations of one family has owned Bordeaux’s Château Coutet. Here, four years ago, a worker discovered a bottle in a pile of dirt behind a broken wine rack. Everything about the bottle was unusual, including its sealing method (a glass heart). Wine heir Adrien David Beaulieu called upon a world-renowned glass expert and after four years of testing—from the chemical …
The Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Bordeaux is adding to its already impressive, first-ever Andrea Branzi retrospective with a dedicated Martine Bedin exhibition. In a show titled “L’objet déluré (Sassy Object),” Bedin—a founding member of Memphis—returns to her drawings of the ‘80s and ‘90s to realize them as actual objects. Her series of colorful and kooky post-modern pieces will be on display at …
