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St Remy de Provence Wine Fair

St Remy de Provence (13 Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence)  hosts its Wine and Crafts Fair (Fête du Vin et de l’Artisanat d’art) 27-29 July 2012

For the 30th year this pretty provençal town welcome its annual wine fair featuring wines from all over France, with New Orleans Jazz and plenty of opportunities to sample wines, local

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Wine grape harvest underway in Alsace

Across France much of the landscape and many small villages have stirred into frenetic activity with the start of the annual grape harvest – some areas have been busy for weeks already, whilst others may not start until later in September or even later if they are very high or concentrating on late-harvest (vendanges tardives)

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A taste of the Beautiful South

Too early for your next visit to France then have a look at specialist wine merchants Stone, Vine and Sun who have some new offerings and tastings to tempt:-

There’s something very complete about our annual offer of wines from the Languedoc and Roussillon: with whites, rosés and reds, and wonderful fortified wines, the Vins

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Christmas Sparklers from Confit Direct

North Berwick-based French specialists Devigne Wines and Confit Direct have some interesting Christmas offers on Champagne and some lesser-known French Sparkling wines such as Cremants from Burgundy (Cremant de Bourgogne Chardonnay), Jura (Cremant de Jura Rosé made from the Poulsard grape), Gaillac in SW France (Mauzac and Len de l’El grapes), a Methode Traditionelle from

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Entraygues-du-Fel and Marcillac wines from UK Award winner

Green and Blue, winners of Decanter’s Small Independent Wine Merchant of the Year Award 2008 stock two wines which are seldom seen in the UK – Entraygues et du Fel AC and Marcillac AC. These wines are really from deepest Southwest France coming from the upper Lot Valley and the Aveyron

2005 Laurent Mousset Entraygues et du

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Wind, Water and Wine; Beziers, Bordeaux and Bristol

The port cities of Bordeaux and Bristol both played a distinguished role in the history of the wine trade, such that even in the 13th century more than 85 per cent of all imported wine came from South West France and as much as 3,000 tons (750,000 gallons) was being landed in Bristol. The

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Cotes du Rhone explained

Joanna Simon in the Sunday Times (1 June 2008) helpfully provides an explanation of the appellation rules for the Cotes du Rhone, which produces such a wealth of good wines, but where the nomenclature can confuse rather than illuminate. You can find a cheap basic Cotes du Rhone for well under £5.00 but get

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Boules in Bath

Great Western Wine is sponsoring Bath Boules on 21st and 22nd June 2008

when the sound of clashing metal boules will ring out from Queen Square as the teams from local businesses and restaurants compete for the prestigious trophies. Great Western Wine is a founder sponsor and will be out in full force, entering a

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Camping on a Vineyard in Cabardes

We keep coming across gites and Bed & Breakfast (Chambres d’Hote) on vineyards in France, but there are obviously some domaines that also offer camping, whether canvas or motorhome.

One such is Chateau de Pennautier in the Cabardes appellation (11 Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon) north west of Carcassonne. (see map). We have mentioned this chateau before, partly

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Some "different" French wines from Majestic

Majestic Wine has just introduced a new section on their website entitle “Something Different”.

It’s a frequent frustration that some of our most interesting wines are the hardest to sell, simply because customers don’t instantly recognise them on the stack. For that reason I have instigated a new feature on the site in which we’ll

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