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Wine taster, Sommelière🍷🍾
43 countries happy traveller 🌏✈️
food 🥘Naturelover 🌲🌻✨
French, English, Dutch, Italian, Spanish
In Canada/from Surinam

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Beautiful view of Tenuta Bocca di Lupo septembre 22 2026!

#@tenuta_bocca_di_lupo #@sampinot #italy #puglia #amazingexperience #winelover by @waaldijkfoisy

Cactus flower!
#italy #puglia #lovetraveling #beautifullnature #beautifullflowers by @waaldijkfoisy

An ancient way to store the Saké!
#canada #montreal #sakeevent #lovesake by @waaldijkfoisy

Lago Trasimeno 😍
Beautiful place Panicale Umbria
#italy #umbria #lovetraveling #appreciation #wonderfulplaces by @waaldijkfoisy

Amazing flowers black and yellow tulips!
#nethetlands #tulip #keukenhof #lovetraveling #appreciation by @waaldijkfoisy

Champagne Garden
Brut Blanc de Noir, Premier Cru
France Champagne, Éparnay
🍇 60% Pinot Noir, 40% Pinot Meunier

The Champagne Garden house was created by Charles Gardet in Éparnay in 1895.
The first creations were Brut Réserve 1er Cru and Brut Rosé blends.

1n 1913 Charles Gardet died and his wife Anna Madeleine took over the management.
Their son George began his career in 1930 and purchased a Champagne house, Champagne De Tassigny premises in Chigny-Les-Roses, and named it Champagne George Gardet.

George dedicated his career to development of the family estate and export sales and after his death his wife Anne Marie Germaine Gardet managed the family business with her five children and made them professional workers in the house.

Today the house has kept the traditional way of making wines although the modern renovation and expansion of the house (2004)

The Champagne,
This Blanc de Noir, grapes are coming from the Village Hautvillers à Premier Cru located near Éparnay in the heights of the Vallée of the Marne on its south facing side.
This place notable for its Abbey, is known to the birthplace of Champagne.
Different parcels across the village are blended to maintain consistency and balance from a harvest to another.

👁️ Golden yellow, with fine bubbles
👃 Almond paste, hazelnut, brioche, ripe apple 🍎, lemon 🍋, orange 🍊, peach 🍑, mineral
👄 Dry high acidity , fine bubbles, almond paste, brioche, apple, lemon, orange, peach with a long long finish saline
👌 Outstanding Champagne, amazing experience, oysters 🦪, and sushi 🍣 🥂🍾💛

#@champagnegardet
#@selectionsoeno
#france #champagne #outstandingchampagne
#champagneappreciation #champagnelover by @waaldijkfoisy

Flamingo 🦩, elegant and beautiful Bird
#travelmemories #guadeloupe #flamingo #appreciation #beautifunature by @waaldijkfoisy

Caruso & Minimi
Frappo Rosé
Italia, Sicilia, Salami
🍇 Frappato 💯

Caruso & Minini started back in the late 1800’s when Antonio Caruso bought the company to grow grapes for the nearby Marsala factories.
Many generations later Nino Caruso finally decided to begin making and bottling his own wine in the mid 1900’s.
In 2004, Stefano Caruso joined with Mario Minini of Lombardy to launch the present-day winery, producing wines from indigenous Sicilian varietals such as Catarratto, Nero d’Avola, Frappato, Inzolia, and Nerello Mascalese.
Today, Stefano’s daughter Giovanna works closely with her father to head up this historic winery

Land of 120 hectares on the Trapani hills, where the Mediterranean breeze blows, at an altitude of 450 meters on the western tip of Sicilia and exposed to both the Mistral and the Sirocco winds.
Highly permeable soil rich in Clay, silica and Limestone.
Organic farming and respect biodiversity in and around the land, and growing olive trees which is part of the tradition.

The wine: hand picked in the Marsala hinterland between late September and early October, eight hours of maceration at 10°C , followed by soft pressing and temperature controlled fermentation of the must, and then 4 months aging in steel tanks and then bottled

The label, iconic bird of the Stagnone nature reserve.

👁️ Light pink 🩷
👃 Strawberry 🍓, red cherry 🍒, watermelon 🍉, apple 🍎 Herb 🌿, Mint, mineral saline
👄 Dry high acidity, strawberry, , red cherry, watermelon, slightly mint and a nice saline finish
👌 Excellent wine, tuna tartare, fries and salad 🍷🍷🩷
#@carusoeminini #@agencetrinque
#italia #sicily #wineappreciation winelover
#vino by @waaldijkfoisy

Bordeaux, what a beautiful destination!
#france #bordeaux #appreciation #wonderfuldestination #lovetraveling by @waaldijkfoisy

Château Tour Bayard
2022
France Bordeaux, Montagne Saint-Émilion
🍇80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc

Château Tour Bayard, is founded in 1956 by Angelo Nicoletti. His family settled in Bordeaux after the first world war.
Angelo Nicoletti fell in love with 10 hectares of land in the Montagne Saint-Émilion appellation and saw all the potential of the terroir.

Fanny his daughter joined him in 1970 after she got graduation, and now her son Julien Richard who returned after graduating with a degree in agronomy and gaining viticulture experience in California and Spain.
He purchased another 15 hectares, with specific plots on the land, innovating the vineyards with his personal touch and with the traditional wine processing.

The land is situated on the hillside Southeast and composed of Clay-Limestone soils, and well drained.
Soils are worked mechanical without herbicides and natural compost is used to respect biodiversity.

The wine, grapes are harvested by hand, double sorting and destemming,
Traditional vinification follows in small, temperature controlled concrete and stainless steel tanks to preserve the fruit.
A portion is also vinified entirely in 500 litre barrels.

👁️ Dark red
👃 Blackberry, black cherry 🍒, black plum, blackcurrant, cloves, forest floor mushroom 🍄, pepper hints of leather, vanilla, tobacco, chocolate, pencil shaving, cedar
👄 Dry, high medium to high acidity and tannins, blackberry, black cherry liquorice plum, jam, blackcurrant, vanilla, tobacco, earthly spices cloves with a great long finish
👌 Excellent to Outstanding wine, powerful and grilled steak 🥩, fries and salad,🍷🍷♥️

#@chateautourbayard
#@vinicolor.ca
#france #bordeaux #saintemilion wineselction wineappreciation by @waaldijkfoisy

France, Mont Saint Michel 2019!

#france #montstmichel #travelmemories #lovetraveling #appreciation by @waaldijkfoisy

Domaine Olivier Python
Cuvée Laïs Blanc 2024
France, Languedoc Roussillon, Côtes de Roussillon
🍇 Maccabeu, Grenache blanc, Grenache Gris

Olivier Python grew up among vineyards in Anjou, since he was little he was always in the winery of his brother who started when Olivier was around 4 years old and has only very good memories.

At 14 years old he was working in several vineyards in his home town to learn and get the experience in and around the vineyard.
At 18 he went to Bordeaux and after to Jurançon and Beaujolais and after the studies he had only one thing in his mind to start his own Domain.

In January the third 2001 he became the owner of a vineyard situated in Calce in the Pyrenees-Orientales (Occitanie)
À property of 8.5 hectares of old vines on slopes of schist hillsides, soils of Mala, Schist and Limestone.
Since 2010 certificate biodynamic .
Laïs is the name of the cow Jersey in the Catalan country.

The wine, vines growing on 80% schist and 20% Limestone, Clay Mark .
Maccabeu , Grenache Blanc and Gris hand-picked, directly pressed, maturation 1/2 in wooden bats and 1/2 in barrels for 10 months

👁️ Yellow gold
👃 Peach 🍑, pear 🍐, citrus peel,lime 🍋‍🟩,floral , Acacia, flint, herb 🌿 mineral
👄 Dry, medium to high acidity, peach, pear, lime, Herb, and a nice long saline finish
👌 Excellent wine, outstanding, with spaghetti seafood, excellent 🥂👌💛

#olivierpython
#@wardetassocies #france #languedocroussillon
#wineappreciation excellentwine #winelife by @waaldijkfoisy