Archive for the ‘Wine’ Category

an insufficient test of character

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

All well here. Apart from I / we missed the Nouveaux Gaillac eve in Gaillac yesterday, drat.
This is quite a big social

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Gold turns brown, the credit crisis, wine or dolphins?

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Gold turns brown, an oblique reference to the credit crisis, dolpins or to wine?

An amusing French expression much used at Castelnau de Montmiral at present. Tous les jours ce n’est pas du temps de saison – all and every day it is not the weather for the season.

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Further Reading on Vin du Tarn – Gaillac

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Today French wine is vigourously regulated to the highest standards in the world, mostly organic, none grown with child or slave labour and the best is hand cultivated and hand picked. Both regions maintain the highest integrity and Gaillac is learning to reposition its self in the wine market.
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