From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Domaine de Fontsainte: why all roads lead to Boutenac

July 30, 2009

The tiny hamlet of Boutenac, with its square with a fountain, café, church and chateau, looks like most other tiny habitations in the Languedoc-Roussillon’s Corbières, one of France’s largest wine appellations. In the five minutes since my arrival, I had already driven around the hamlet twice; if you’re going to get lost anywhere, make certain [...]

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Clos du Gravillas: memories written in grapes and gravel

July 24, 2009

I can’t remember now where I came across it, but I once read something about wine being the memory of the season, of the rain, the sun and the wind, and of each change in the weather in each day of a grape’s short life. The expression of that memory, this person wrote so eloquently, [...]

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The future of wine tourism is already there

July 18, 2009

I sat down at the June 24 Vinexpo session on Wine Tourism with a certain amount of expectation as tourism is critical to wine producers facing declining sales around the world. Topics on the conference agenda included the role of wine tourism to wineries, how to market to tour operators, and how things like online [...]

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La Gramière’s wine blogging ‘Wine Girl’

July 11, 2009

I have been reading the La Gramière wine blog since at least mid-2005. The blog details the adventures of an American couple, Amy Lillard and her husband Matt Kling, who purchased 4.5 ha of Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre in Saint Quentin La Poterie, near the beautiful town of Uzès in Southern France’s Côtes-du-Rhône appellation. The [...]

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A Tale of Two Presidents, A Tale of Two Countries

July 6, 2009

The Tuesday, July 23 Vinexpo conference on the future of The American Wine Market was presented by John Gillespie, president of the US Wine Market Council, and Danny Brager, vice president, group client director, Beverage Alcohol, at the Nielsen Company. Gillespie presented a positive viewpoint of the US wine market, beginning with an observation about [...]

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