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Oct 5,2022

This month on “Paris Cocktail Talk”: Building a Sustainable Brand with Avallen Calvados

This month Avallen Calvados co-founders, Tim Etherington-Judge and Stefanie Jordan, talk about the environmental impacts of the drinks industry, how they settled on the production of Calvados to work towards a healthier planet, and their other sustainable approaches from packaging to blockchain technology.

Avallen is a floral, fruity, and completely natural Calvados with apples at its heart and soul. Even their labels are made from apples! Produced entirely in the West of Normandy, Avallen is aged for two years in French oak before being bottled with no added sugar, caramel or boisé. In a category dominated by old-fashioned producers, Avallen represents a younger, fresher and more apple-filled future, with the health of our planet at its core

Tim Etherington-Judge is the founder of Healthy Hospo, co-founder of Avallen Spirits, and co-founder of Lassou. He is a hospitality professional with more than twenty-five years’ experience at all levels of the industry – from tourist-spot coffee shop, to chef, award- winning bartender, bar manager and global ambassador for some of the world’s most recognisable spirits brands.

From London to Bogota, with a sip of Burgundy in between, Stephanie Jordan is the creator and professional powerhouse behind Drinking Out Loud – the luxury wine and spirits consultancy and a strategic consultant at Yellow Global. She is also cofounder of Avallen.

Products, places and people mentioned in the Sustainable Spirits episode

Avallen Calvados website

L’Explorateur du Goût (distributor in Paris for Avallen Calvados)

Drinks & Co (shop in Paris with Avallen Calvados)

The Whisky Exchange (online shop carrying Avallen Calvados)

Master of Malts (online shop carrying Avallen Calvados)

ecoSpirits (low waste spirits distribution technology)

B Lab (certified B Corp), the certification mentioned by Tim as ‘most trustworthy’

1% for the planet

Wherefrom.org (consumer sustainability score)

Provenance Proof (Blockchain technology platform)

DOVU (tokenized data economy for DeFi carbon offsetting)

Drinking Out Loud, Stephanie’s luxury wine and spirits consultancy

Healthy Hospo, Tim’s non-profit organisation with the dream of a healthier, happier hospitality industry.

Lassou, A Marketplace Connecting People Who Make Beautiful Drinks And People Who Love Discovering Different, for which Tim is a co-founder

Sustainable Spirits Cocktail of the Month: True Normand

5cl / 1.75 oz Avallen Calvados

Fresh pressed apple juice for topping

Ginger ale for topping

Lavender sprig or edible flower for garnish

Pour Calvados in highball glass.

Add ice

Partially top with apple juice

Top with ginger ale

Garnish with lavender sprig or other (seasonable) edible flower

Sustainable Spirits Bonus Cocktail of the Month: Avallen and Tonic

If you’re looking for a refreshing twist on a G&T, Stefanie tells us that swapping out the gin for Calvados makes for an even more delicious spin on this classic

Big thanks to…

Stephanie Jordan and Tim Etherington-Judge, co-founders of Avellan Calvados

If you liked this episode, you might want to check out our recent interview about Farm to Bottle in France.

Listen to the episode here:

by The WRP Team

Oct 3,2022

“Shine In Provence” – A new monthly show focusing on the reality of expats and businesses in Provence

Whether you are a student, retiree, trailing spouse, working parent, or creative soul looking for a better quality of life, this show offers a place of resource with authentic conversations (and generous doses of inspiration) with people from all walks of life that are aspiring to not only survive, but SHINE in Provence. This new podcast & radio show available online and in Paris, Nice & Monaco, speaks to not only English-speaking Expats & “Frenchpats” about their real lives, challenges and wins but also organizations and businesses here that affect the lives of all who call Provence their home.

In the first episode we get an introduction to rose-tinted Provence through a different lens: SCIENCE.
The host Kruti Mawani Fayot, figured out that it’s not just the sun or wine that pulls people towards moving to Provence, but rather how science plays an important role in being one of the reasons why people gravitate here in search for a better quality of life. Speaking with Agathe Mattei, the regional coordinator of Fete de la Science, Laban Coblentz, Communications Director of ITER, Romain Bourgue, a special volunteer with Les Petits Débrouillards & officer at ITER and best of the all, the one that it all boils down to, Maxim, a 10-year-old science lover who will validate whether or not what the big organizations are trying to do hold weight.

Listen to this very first episode of the show “Shine In Provence” here:

by The WRP Team

Sep 26,2022

Turning Points In France interviews Ronan Dempsey

In this episode of Turning Points, Patricia Killeen chatted with Ronan Dempsey who
has brought his solo play, The Words Are There to Paris for the 7 th Edition of the
“Festival 7.8.9.”

Ronan lived and studied in Paris and is an actor, a playwright, a poet, a filmmaker,
an orator and a professor of theatre. His works are often committed to social issues:
domestic violence, abandon, emigration.

The words are There, has been described as thrilling, phenomenal, breathtaking,
compelling and dazzling. Before coming to Paris it was already hailed in the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It was listed as one of the top shows in Ireland, and its
premiere was a real Turning Point, sparking a national debate on the issue of
domestic violence against men. It was written in response to the many stories of men
in Ireland who committed suicide as a result of dramatic family situations. The play
was created using the ‘Object Theatre’ method, utilizing multiple props to bring Trish,
Mick’s (Ronan Dempsey) partner to life on the stage.

Coming to Paris, is a sort of homecoming for Ronan and as well as speaking about
his trailblazing play, we also looked back on his time in Paris at the renowned École
de Jacques Lecoq, and theatre school in Poland, and how although now world
famous, he feels that he never stops learning on his theatrical and artistic path.

Listen to this episode of Turning Points In France here:

by The WRP Team

Sep 16,2022

About admiring Françoise Sagan and living in New York – New episode of Turning Points In France

In this episode of Turning Points, Patricia Killeen welcomed Caroline Loeb who was born in
Neuilly. As a child, she spent 6 magical years in New York and when her family moved back
to Paris when she was ten, it was a real Turning Point in her young existence. Caroline is an actress, an author, a playwright, a theatre director, a singer and song writer and many of us have danced to her 1986 hit, C’est la Ouate, which was an instant success in France and topped charts all over the world.

Caroline spoke about her admiration for Françoise Sagan and other female icons. We discussed her own many, and eclectic creative successes, and how for her, each art form seemed to nourish another. Her play “Françoise by Sagan”, directed by Alex Lutz, has been a huge success internationally and was nominated best solo play in the 2018 French Molières awards. After performing the play, more than 450 times, Caroline is now performing it at the La Divine Comedy theatre. Completely bilingual, she performs in English every Sunday at 6pm (until 6th November) and in French every Saturday, at 6pm (until 31st December).

Tickets can be reserved on:
https://billetterie.theatredivinecomedie.fr/events/609
In the interview Caroline also performed a short preview, of “Françoise by Sagan”, and here’s
a longer teaser: https://youtu.be/T4wVtdfWwd4

The end of the interview transported us to New York, with Hello New York,(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOPnzEs8Aok) an incredibly beautiful song from
Caroline’s 2019 album “Comme Sagan”.

Listen to the latest episode of Turning Points In France here:

by The WRP Team

Sep 13,2022

Paris Cocktail Talk introduces “Bee to Bottle” and Erika Spirits

This month’s Bee to Bottle episode covers the importance of bees to the agricultural landscape in France (and elsewhere) and how one small beekeeper at Erika highlights honey with a gin, vodka and mead.

Our guest is Stephany Saint Faust of Le Saint, a brand development company that focuses on small farmers and helping them get spirits into bottles and on the market.

Products, places and people mentioned in the Bee to Bottle in France episode

Le Saint website

Le Saint instagram

Erika spirits

Lexir online platform for craft spirits

Little Red Door paris cocktail bar

Lulu White paris cocktail bar

Andy Wahloo paris cocktail bar

IVY paris cocktail bar

Erika plants

Cocktail of the Month: Bee to Bottle tomato shrub

40 ml / 1.5 oz Erika dry gin

20 ml / ⅔ oz tomato shrub*

10 ml / ⅓ oz mead

Cucumber slices for garnish

Mix together and pour over ice and garnish with cucumber

*Here is a recipe for a tomato shrub

Big thanks to…

Stephany Saint Faust of Le Saint

World Radio Paris for editing and production

Son Little for the music we use

and YOU for tuning in, downloading and listening!

Listen to more from Stephany in the previous month’s interview about Farm to Bottle in France.

You can also find more of the best Paris cocktail talk at:

52 Martinis site or if you’d like to carry me around in your pocket, download the iOS app, Paris Cocktails.

Listen to this episode here:

by The WRP Team

Sep 9,2022

On Join Us In France: A visit to Narbonne and the Mediterranean Coast

Jennifer Jerzyk, the guest on this episode, visited Narbonne and the Mediterranean coast in 2022.
She travelled mostly by train because she finds it peaceful and relaxing. She also enjoyed the fact that Narbonne is a great gateway into the Mediterranean and such value! That’s because Narbonne is not touristy. As a matter of fact, she wondered if she was the only tourist there.. Narbonne is a great place from which to explore the “other Riviera”. The Mediterranean coast between Montpellier and Collioure. For example you could go to Agde, Sète, Port Vendres, Banyuls-sur-Mer, etc. Some of these places don’t have a train station, but you might get there on a regional bus or by renting a car.

For the travel question of the week, the host Annie, explains why people who take the RER between the airport and the city are asking for trouble.

Listen to the whole episode here:

Read full shownotes and more about this show here:
https://joinusinfrance.com/

Photo by Ian Kirkland on Unsplash

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