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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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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