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The day started with an early morning drawing on location at Gaillac on the banks of the Tarn. 
I wanted the study to show together with a remarqued, framed print of “‘The Port of Chester 1863” and a photograph of the bridge and weir at a meeting at 11.00, subject Gaillac wine, in Castelnau de Montmiral.
All well here. Apart from I / we missed the Nouveaux Gaillac eve in Gaillac yesterday, drat.
This is quite a big social
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.
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.