NOT DRINKING POISON

NOT DRINKING POISON

Dining on the Wine Trail: EMBER by Deborah Blank, Morgon

How the Beaujolais finally found a great baker.

Aaron Ayscough
Nov 18, 2020
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Deborah Blank of EMBER Beaujolais.

Back in June, I was talking with the influential Avallon négoçiant and former caviste Nicolas Vauthier about life in the Morvan, the heavily wooded region east of Burgundy where he lives. Vauthier’s cellar is in the town Avallon but he lives out in the sticks. He enthused about the vegetable garden his companion was bui…

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