Lincoln Siliakus
Writer, journalist and wine-lover. Raised in Australia, travelled a lot, now settled in France. Writing a book on slow travel on an old motor bike from Chablis to Sablet in Provence
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Vinesolex - France's vineyards on an old motorbike
Created on 19/04/2009
The trip on an old Solex motorbike from Chablis in Nth France to Sablet in Provence is over, and Lincoln has published the first book of snippets on it. He is now writing the full book. Each day he posts a snippet so that you can see the book...
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What has this got to do with wine ?
It’s the usual hassle. Culture lovers are used to putting up with queues and crowds. Last Saturday, the From Byzantium to Istanbul exhibition at the Grand Palais on the “world’s most beautiful...
And what it looks like in winter
That previous post was the last one for autumn, as at the change in the month... ...it has turned COLD! Perfect for going out in the early morning to see the vines in the winter mist. Sablet is in...
Just in case you wondered what Sablet looks like in Autumn
The long hot 2009 summer is over, but it's still warm for this late in the year. The vines have turned golden. On the river stones at the top of a ridge between Sablet and Rasteau called the Crapon...
Up in Paris for the other world of wine
As if the French wine world weren’t lively enough, many of France’s beautiful wine people met up in Paris last Thursday for the inaugural Autrement Vin expo. I caught the metro, as Solex was down...
Solex on the backburner. Blame Hong Kong
After some intense writing in October, the Solex terroir book has slowed down a bit as I have been over in Hong Kong to see what is happening in the wine world over there. Since the government of...
The story continues - a delightful chat with the Dugat-Pys
As I put together the final version of Le Bonheur est dans le Nez (this French title is a pun on the film Le Bonheur est dans le Pres - Happiness is in the country field) I'm posting snippets from...
The fight about wine... And oil
I justified my trip from Chablis to Sablet in May and June by saying that I wasn't doing it to taste some of the world's best wine. I was just studying the global battle between wines that come...
The spoit children of the vine world
Continuing my fun in Chablis... I wheeled Solex through the gates at Domaine Long-Depaquit and waited for a few minutes on the wide gravel in front of the sparklingly renovated late 18th century...
Postmodernism at la Chablisienne
With his small wire-rimmed glasses and rather intense Left Bank look, Hervé Tucki struck me as a professor of literary criticism rather than a wine man. This impression was immediately confirmed...
A snatch of the second day
Snippets from the second day. I visit Chitry and make an important decision. Chitry is marketed in the tourist pamphlets for its fortified church although, since “Ch” is pronounced softly in...