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Axios
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Your D.C. Weekend: Bastille Day parties, teas and tours
Grab your beret and rosé — Bastille Day is Monday, but French festivities are happening all weekend. Why it matters: D.C. goes big for Bastille between our French expats and Francophiles. 🔜 Pro tip: Many of the events are ticketed and may sell out, book tout suite. 🍷 Bastille Summer Soirée at the Embassy: Party like a diplomat at this chic party with fine wines, a "culinary tour de force," and live music under the stars. Embassy of France | Fri, 6–10:30pm Tickets: $140 🫖 Moulin Rouge Afternoon Tea: Sip French tea with sweet and savory bites, live Can-Can shows, and optional Veuve pours (+$20). Bistro Du Jour Capitol Hill | Fri-Sun, 2:30–4:30pm Book on Tock or OpenTable: $90 pp 🪗 Bastille Day at the Park: The annual family-friendly celebration includes pétanque, pastries, trivia and accordion music. Fessenden Park, Tenleytown | Sat, 2–4pm Tickets: $5 🌭 Pastis Bastille Weekend: Head to Union Market's bistro for raclette, fancy hot dogs, and special rosés and Champagnes. Sunday bonus: Fresh-shucked oysters and Magnum rosé tastings with San Tropez-based winemaker Minuty (12–3pm). Pastis | Sat-Mon, All day Free reservations and walk-ins 🦪 Bleu, Blanc, Rouge at Café Riggs: Head to the swanky Penn Quarter hotel for a Parisian garden party. On tap: A Whispering Angel rosé garden, oyster and crêpe stations, and sweets galore. Riggs Washington DC | Mon, 6–9pm Tickets: $80 🚶♀️ Bastille Day Tour: Join Alliance Française for a French-themed historical walking tour that ends with Champagne and DJ tunes. Lafayette Square → Alliance Française | Mon, 5–9pm Tickets: $29 More fun things to do this weekend 🥥 The Piña Colada Festival returns to all DMV Colada Shops Thursday through Aug 3. Head to a tropical rooftop launch party at the 14th Street location with coconut-y drinks and DJ tunes (tickets $25). 🎶 Flashband debuts at The Atlantis on Saturday with " 2000s Remixed," a one-night-only event featuring eight new bands performing creative mashups and reimagined hits from the 2000s (tickets $32.50). 💃 Romantasy meets dance party at Culture House DC in Southwest for A Ball of Thorns and Roses on Saturday. Pro dancers show off faerie-style performances before the public joins in on the fun — faerie wine included (tickets $66).
Irish Times
14-06-2025
- Lifestyle
- Irish Times
Four rosé wines you've probably never tried before for under €20
While a small but growing group of wine drinkers enjoy rosé wines throughout the year, sales generally peak when the weather warms up and the sun comes out. There is something about a glass of chilled rosé that sings of summer, al-fresco lunches and dinners on the terrace. Provence was always known for its pale crisp dry rosé, but in recent years it has become hugely fashionable. I tasted two of the biggest names in Provence rosé recently, Whispering Angel (about €20 a bottle) and Minuty M limited Edition (€24.50). Both were well-made, clean and refreshing with attractive delicate strawberry fruits; classic Provence rosé. The demand for very pale-coloured rosés being as strong as ever, virtually every wine region around the world now produces its own version, some better than others. Personally I prefer mine to have a little more fruit and character. So this week we go off-piste with some slightly different rosés, all costing less than €20. Remember that a dark-coloured rosé wine is not an indicator of a sweet wine. Quite often they are fruitier but still bone dry. Rosés are among the most adaptable wines, perfect sipped poolside on a hot sunny day or before a barbecue, but great with food too. Serve one with mixed summer salads, spicy Asian food and even with barbecued white meats and fish. READ MORE Mithus Basilicata Rosato 2023 Mithus Basilicata Rosato 2023 13%, €12.99 Available for a limited period, a rich textured rosé, with jammy ripe strawberry fruits and a rounded finish. Enjoy with mixed summery salads. From Lidl Mesta Organic Rosado 2024, Ucles, Spain Mesta Organic Rosado 2024, Ucles, Spain 12% abv, €14.95 Light, floral with ripe strawberry fruits. Try it with mixed tapas or grilled fish. From Fíon Eile, D7; Red Island, Skerries; Pinto Wines, D9; White Gables, Galway Petit Bourgeois Pinot Noir Rosé 2024, Henri Bourgeois Petit Bourgeois Pinot Noir Rosé 2024, Henri Bourgeois 13%, €19.95 down to €14.95 A bowlful of juicy raspberries and red cherries. Fresh, aromatic, crisp and dry. Summer in a glass. From O'Briens Bodega Ameztoi Txacoli de Getaria Rosado 'Rubentis' Bodega Ameztoi Txacoli de Getaria Rosado 'Rubentis' 10.5%, €19.45 Floral aroma, crisp citrus, and fresh, crunchy red summer fruits. Bone dry and lightly effervescent, this would go nicely with mixed vegetables and seafood tapas. From Fíon Eile, D7; Jus de Vine, Portmarnock; Lennox St Grocers, D8; Seagull Bakery, Tramore; Lilith, D7; MacGuinness, Dundalk; Martin's, D3; 64Wines, Glasthule; Cass and Co, Dungarvan; L'Atitude, Cork; Drinks Store, Stoneybatter
