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In recent years we’ve had a lot of sunny seasons with temperatures exceeding 40°C. What effect does that have on the vines, their fruit and the wine?

Put the date in your diaries. The next Zoom tasting in on Saturday 24th July at 8pm French time.

Looking for something for a picnic that’s just a bit different. These spicy omelette wraps are really tasty and are equally good warm or cold.

Looking for something light and fresh that looks lovely on the plate and makes a delightful summer lunch or dinner?

Radishes have really grown on me since we moved to France. Traditionally here they’re eaten with butter, salt and crusty bread as a simple seasonal appetizer.

Well, here’s an unusual cheese for you. Lou Claousou – a raw sheep’s milk cheese from the Occitanie region in the south of France.

Vines here in the Loire are now in full flower. As you pass the vineyards and the wind is blowing in the right direction you can smell the delicate scent.

Mothais sur feuille is one of our favourite goat’s cheeses and it makes a regular appearance on our cheese board.

Hail damage is ghastly. It’s random, localised and destructive and can wipe out a crop in minutes. That’s what happened here last week.

Fermenting wine in an egg shaped vessel is nothing new. It goes back thousands of years but in recently, we’ve seen a resurgence of them.

In the 1980’s when I was working in London selling wine to hotels and restaurants, Muscadet was the Pinot Grigio of its time.

As the weeks go by, we have a clearer idea of the level of frost damage in individual parcels here in the Loire.