[ July 30, 2010 to August 15, 2010. July 29, 2011 to August 13, 2011. ] The small town of Marciac holds a BIG international Jazz Festival every summer in the first two weeks of August.
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[ September 25, 2009 to September 27, 2009. ] The wines of Domaine de Lauroux in SW France will be on taste at Nantwich Food & Drink Festival in Cheshire from 25-27 September 2009. Karen Kitchener, owner of the Domaine with husband Nicholas, will be giving a tutored tasting of 3 of their Cotes de Gascogne wines on each day of the festival (2.30pm [...] ………Continue reading Gascony Wines at Nantwich Food Festival
Part of our series featuring places for a short stay in the in France we visit the Gers, South West France. Le Weekend in…Eauze Where to stay? Domaine de Lauroux at Manciet. Domaine de Lauroux, situated 2km from the town of Manciet.where Karen and Richard Kitchener run a wine and Armagnac domaine in the Cotes de Gascogne. [...] ………Continue reading Le Weekend in…. Eauze
Armagnac is a brandy from Gascony with similarities to Cognac which is made 100 miles to the north in the Charentes. Armagnac pre-dates cognac by about 150 years but never seems to have been as commercially successful or available, tending to be appreciated more by restaurants, connoisseurs and the locals.There are 3 Aramgnac producing areas – [...] ………Continue reading Tasting Armagnac
The Domaine de Lauroux at Manciet (32 Gers, Midi-Pyrenees) is run by English couple Nick and Karen Kitchener, who also make wines and Floc de Gascogne on their 19 hectare vineyard in the Bas Armagnac region. Their Armagnacs are made from 100% Ugni Blanc grapes grown on silica clay soils on slopes and plateaux in the [...] ………Continue reading Armagnac, Domaine de Lauroux
Marciac (32 Gers, Midi-Pyrenees between Auch and Pau) would usually be one of those small southern French towns you’d pass through without too much thought, except in the first 2 weeks of August every year when it goes Jazz Crazy with its Festival of Jazz in Marciac (or JIM as it is known to the [...] ………Continue reading Jazz in Marciac
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