10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 28, 2018
The estate of Jean de la Fontaine in Hauts-de-France produces a brut Champagne named L’Eloquente with a very Gallic chicken silhouette on the label, and South Australia’s Bird in Hand winery makes sparkling wines as well. I know there are a few out there, but none that have been available to me locally.
10,000 Birds
JULY 12, 2018
And that’s not all: I’m even relaxing my unwritten prohibition against featuring domestic fowl. But is there a bird more emblematic of France than the humble – yet decidedly exotic – farmyard chicken? A literal case of the proverbial chickens coming home to roost, perhaps, but the result was the same. So I survived.
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