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Choosing the best wines in southwest France:
Why sense and sensibility only takes you so far

February 27, 2011

Each year, the professional winemakers association for southwestern France (Les Vignerons du sud-ouest), along with the Conseil régional Midi-Pyrénées (the region’s development authority), organizes a competition among the area’s 24 wine appellations. This year’s Concours des Vins du Sud-Ouest, which was held on February 14, featured over 1,000 wines in categories ranging from dry white [...]

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The Plageoles: Gaillac’s first family

December 30, 2010

“Every generation needs a new revolution.” Thomas Jefferson Photo : Isabelle Rozenbaum - www.rozenbaum.com It was the Phoenicians, then the Romans ( arriving four centuries later, around the first century B.C.), who first planted vines in the Gaillac region northeast of Toulouse. It predates Bordeaux, and like Cahors, Madiran and other wine regions in southwestern France [...]

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Roses are red, Violets are blue,
Fronton wine is good, and violet, too

December 18, 2010

Violets are plants. Violet can be a color and even a woman’s name. It turns out that violet can even be a good wine-tasting theme. Paul Bonno who is in my DNO (Diplôme National d’Œnologue) program in Toulouse conducted such a wine tasting in late November at the Château Labastidié in Gaillac, where he served [...]

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Domaine Peyres Roses: finely-engineered bio vineyards

June 27, 2010

Astrid and Olivier Bonnafont work their Domaine Peyres Roses vineyard in Gaillac with missionary-serious bio zeal. No chemicals or artificial fertilizers are used on the vines or in their wines. A horse is used to cultivate the vineyard, and they’ve recently obtained a pump that sprays, using the action of its wheels being turned, the [...]

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A class act: The Club des Vignerons Lauréats

March 26, 2010

There are many sorts of wine shows in France. There are international shows with wines from all over the world and regional shows with wines from a particular wine region. There are local shows with wines from one appellation. I’ve even been to wine shows celebrating one particular variety of grape. There are shows with [...]

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