Culinary Adventures with Camilla

This month The French Winophiles, with Gwendolyn from Wine Predator leading the charge, are looking at France's women in wine. As March in Women's History Month, it seems a fabulous topic that is not often the focus of wine pairings.  If you are reading this early enough, feel free to join us on Twitter for a live chat on Saturday, March 19th at 8am Pacific time. Follow the hashtag #Winophiles and be sure to add it to anything you tweet so we can see it. Here's the line-up of articles... Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm is sipping Domaine de Marcoux Lirac La Lorentine to Celebrate Women's History Month . Jeff of Food Wine Click! invites us to Celebrate French Women in Wine: Anne-Sophie Dubois . Jane of Always Ravenous talks about Women Behind the Wine: Domaine Weinbach, Catherine Faller . Martin of ENOFYLZ Wine Blog is sharing Champagne Louise Brison: A Tradition of Women in Charge . Robin of Crushed Grape Chronicles opened Delphine Vesselle and Domaine J...

When Gwendolyn of Wine Predator challenged the French Winophiles to explore and pair biodynamic wines this month, I almost didn't participate. It's not that I didn't want to learn about biodynamic practices and try some of the wines; I was completely intrigued by her invitation post which you can read here . But the boys have launched into build season for robotics and given that they are both on the team and Jake is the team mentor, it's become a family affair and my free time is also completely dominated by supporting this venture. Still, I figured I would stop by one of my favorite shops, on the way home from work one night, and if they had some French biodynamic wines, I would join in the fun and games. Lo and behold, Renee not only had some, but she knew a lot about them. She talked about burying a cow's horn and planting by the light of the full moon. But really, she was just underscoring the fact that biodynamic winemakers have a more spiritual approa...