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A highlight of the wine year has to be Yapp’s pre-Christmas sale which runs on 23 and 24 November 2007 (9am-5pm) at their delightful premises in Mere, Wiltshire. The setting is the Old Brewery and the range of wines on their list is an impressive choice of some of the best and most interesting growers ………Continue reading Yapp’s Wine Sale Jonathan Ray in The Telegraph selects his top 10 sweet wines, which includes the little-known and hard-to-pronounce appellation of Pacherenc du Vic Bilh from South West France. Reserved solely for white wines, it is the white sister to the red Madiran AC, covering virtually the same area in deepest Gascony. ………Continue reading Pacherenc du Vic Bilh AC in Top Ten Sweet wines The artist Margaret Loxton is very English, and very Yorkshire – as is her style, but she has neverthess produced some very atmospheric images of France, and particularly French rural life. With her buxom men and women it may be a style you love or hate, but these pictures are so French they could not ………Continue reading Margaret Loxton’s images of France It appears that Champagne is being “reinvented” by the marketing people as offering a way to lose weight – by choosing the sugar-free version of the famous fizz! ………Continue reading Champagne diet!? Salons des Vins (Wine Fairs) – Vignerons Independants (Independent Wine Makers) 2007. ………Continue reading Wine Fairs 2007 On 10 June 2007 French Railways opens the latest link in their high speed train network with the TGV Est Europeén which will link Paris with Reims, Strasbourg and points east – i.e. Germany (Munich) and Austria (Vienna) – all by high speed train. ………Continue reading New High Speed Train Paris-Reims-Strasbourg |
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