From the monthly archives:

June 2009

The Château du Busca-Maniban:
an award-winning, cliché-busting Armagnac

June 15, 2009

Floriane de Ferron is not one to suffer clichés gladly. The owner of the 360-year-old-and-counting Château du Busca-Maniban, an outstanding example of Gascon architecture, doesn’t fit the image of the typical Armagnac producer. The Gers department, where the chateau is located, is one of the most rural and sparsely populated areas in Western Europe. Traditional [...]

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French Revolution: old, New World meets new, Old World

June 6, 2009

A visit to the Domaine de Sainte Rose, a Languedoc vineyard purchased in 2002 by a young English couple, provides lessons in the pluses and minuses of globalization. As I drove up to Servian, a small village in the Hérault, one of the original 83 departments created after the French Revolution and one of the [...]

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Domaine de Familongue: Treating carignan with respect

June 1, 2009

A former French postal employee and a dentist may seem like an unlikely winemaking couple. Yet former fonctionaire Martine Quinquarlet and her husband, Jean Luc, have created a well-respected vineyard in the Terrasses du Larzac subzone of the Coteaux du Languedoc appellation, a mineral-rich area that is thought by many to be the finest terroir [...]

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