• Post category:Paris Ile de France
  • Post last modified:March 2, 2014

It is just a shame that internet technology has yet to be able to transmit aromas, as you can now watch skilled Parisian breadmakers and patissiers (translating as cake makers…

Alsace wine Having been in the wine trade, we still get our share of Christmas Greetings from France - often these are fairly formal affairs - often a glorified business…

Brive-la-Gaillarde in the Correze celebrates Christmas. Best known as a Motorail destination

  • Post category:32 GersFranceMadiran
  • Post last modified:June 1, 2020

Chateau d'Aydie and the Laplace family are widely regarded as one of the foremost quality producers of Madiran. Frédéric Laplace was recognised as one of the pioneer winemakers - first…

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…

Quercy is the ancient name of a region of South West France in the Lot and Lot-et-Garonne départements roughly centred on Cahors (46, Lot, Occitanie). The Coteaux du Quercy wine…

Ste Alvère (24 Dordogne, Aquitaine) claims to be the first village in France to have its own online truffle market. Known as the black truffle of Périgord (Perle Noire du…

Cotes du Marmandais,(47 Lot-et-Garonne, Nouvelle Aquitaine) The Cotes du Marmandais centred on the town of Marmande is one of a number of small appellations south of Bergerac and east of…

  • Post category:32 GersFranceMadiran
  • Post last modified:January 1, 2022

Domaine Berthomieu is a small domaine (26 hectares) in the village of Viella, in the north of the Madiran appellation (32 Gers,Occitanie) . The domaine has been in the family…