Loire

With Cremant taking the lead, Carver probably sadly left in its dust a little bit.

But yeah, we have a few Cremant options from some, you know, kind of price fighter Cremant de Bordeaux up to, you know, some big names in Loire and Alsace and stuff like that.

And yet we're finding places that are willing to stick it on by the glass, realize that six months in, they could probably delist their Prosecco because they're actually selling so much more.

But then on the other end of the spectrum, we're selling more grower champagne than we've ever sold before as well.

Bacuse became the most famous chef in France.

Jean and Pierre went home to Rouen, an industrial town in the Loire.

From a hotel directly opposite the railway station, they built the best restaurant in the world.

Three Michelin stars earned in 1968, but never lost, not once, for 52 consecutive years.

Different in temperament, complementary in skill, and together responsible for something neither could have achieved alone.

In 1930, when Pierre was just two years old, Jean-Baptiste made a decision that changed the family's trajectory entirely.

He left Chalons-sur-Saône, then moved to Rouen, a town in the Loire, roughly between Lyon and Vichy, where he took over the Hotel de Platin, directly opposite the railway station.

The hotel sat on the Nationale Sète, the great road south from Paris to the Riviera, that we talked about in the Fernand Point episode.

See this hand, he told judge and jurors, it has killed as many bourgeois as it has fingers.

He was guillotined on the 11th of July, 1892, in the Loire, in Montbrison.

Several days later, a bomb destroyed the restaurant, Le Verri, killing the patron, the owner, leading to the ghoulish pun that served as an anarchist signature, vérification.

Ravichol so terrified contemporaries that for a time his name became a French verb.