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[ February 6, 2010 to February 7, 2010. ] The festival celebrates the piercing or tapping of the barrels of the Jura’s famous “Yellow Wine” (vin jaune) which has spent 6 years and 3 months maturing, ………Continue reading The Percée du Vin Jaune festival [ May 30, 2009 to June 1, 2009. ] The Chalon-sur-Saone Ballloon Festival (71 Saone-et-Loire, Burgundy) takes place from 30 May to 1 June 2009. ………Continue reading Chalon-sur-Saone Balloon Festival [ April 17, 2009 to April 19, 2009. ] [caption id="attachment_1790" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Macon Salon des Vins"][/caption] The Salon des Vins at Macon (71 Saone-et-Loire, Rhone_) is one of the biggest and most important wine fairs in France – for the professional a medal from Macon is prized, whilst for the consumer it offers great choice of wines to taste. Even locally there is a ………Continue reading Macon wine fair 2009 [ April 5, 2009; ] On 5 April 2009 the small village of Bouzeron in Burgundy holds its annual Wine & parsleyed Ham (Jambon Persille) celebration: ………Continue reading Burgundy, Bouzeron & Persillé [ January 31, 2009 to February 1, 2009. ] The annual Percée du Vin Jaune takes place in the villages of Passenans & Frontenay (39 Arbois, Jura) on the weekend of 31 January/1 February 2009. ………Continue reading Jura celebrates its Yellow Wine [ November 20, 2008; ] It began in 1972 when a journalist challenged Fleet Street to “Bring Back the Beaujolais” to London copying the similar “race” to get the first bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau wine to Paris. In those days the new vintage of Beaujolais Nouveau could not by law be allowed to leave the producers’ cellars near Macon until ………Continue reading The Beaujolais Race still running! |
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