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Straight back to work – the first thing to do was to take a walk around the vineyards here to see the state of play.

Things have certainly changed since we did our last update a couple of weeks ago. The rain in the past week has been welcome.

Inspired by a recent trip to Orléans when we enjoyed a lovely fresh lunch at Les Becs à Vin. Today I recreated my version of the tasty veggie plate we shared.

Probably France’s most famous hard cheese that comes from the Massif du Jura.  It’s made from unpasteurised milk from Franche Comté in Eastern France.

This week has seen high temperatures again here in the Loire valley (and all over Europe).

A crémant is a sparkling wine made in the Traditional Method (the one used in Champagne), in a specific geographic zone.

More used to a few crisps and a bowl of peanuts with a pre- dinner glass of wine, the French apéro takes things to a whole different level.

If you’re a foodie then you’ll find it as hard as I do to drive past Terre Exotique in Rochecorbon, one of the Vouvray villages close to Tours.

It’s been three years since the trusty Le Mans Gang came down for their annual Loire Wine Discovery day and there was a lot to catch up on.

The weather in the Loire has been unseasonally hot and dry these past few weeks and as temperatures rose, hail storms were predicted.

I posted a few days ago that vines here in the Loire are flowering. There seems to be a lot of fruit and conditions are perfect at the moment.

Domaine d’Orfeuilles is an estate that has been in the Herivault family for more than 2 centuries.