Comments on: Jacques Cousteau and the amphora [children's books] http://www.drvino.com/2010/09/10/jacques-cousteau-wine-amphora-shipwreck/ wine talk that goes down easy Fri, 24 May 2013 12:49:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: James Koch http://www.drvino.com/2010/09/10/jacques-cousteau-wine-amphora-shipwreck/#comment-311206 James Koch Thu, 16 Sep 2010 04:48:39 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=7545#comment-311206 …one of the greatest French wine authorities.

]]> By: James Koch http://www.drvino.com/2010/09/10/jacques-cousteau-wine-amphora-shipwreck/#comment-311203 James Koch Thu, 16 Sep 2010 04:44:30 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=7545#comment-311203 In the late 70s I attended a couple of French wine tasting session conducted by Alexis Lichine in his NY home/flat overlooking Central Park.

Alexis mentioned that Cousteau had been a very good friend of him and that he once gave him a Greek amphora filled with wine as a birthday gift.

“Jacques and I are the only two persons in the entire world who can claim to have actually tasted wine made by the Greek,” he told us. “How did it taste?”, he was asked by someone in the tasting group. His response: “After a heavy downpour take a wine glass, go outside and try to collect some of the really, really muddy surface run-off…”

BTW, this was one hell of a fascinating wine tasting weekend. Alexis Lichine was one of the greatest French wine authority.

James

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