PEACE

The Gourmand evenings have drawn to a close and our hectic schedule of 46 events in 60 days has come to an end! The next month will be spent getting ready for the harvest and there is plenty to do,weeding by hand in the big field has some way to go and although the 40 degree days over the past week has been good for the grapes its been pretty hard for me. With the grapes lagging behind they have been playing catch up and have come on leaps and bounds with these exceptionally hot days and nights with no rain here but plenty all around us!
With the success of the summer markets we are clean out of CF and JAS and GM and our new vintages of the above will be bottled very shortly, hopefully along with VAT 665 , so allot of work to do. The beer has been even more successful and we can't keep pace with demand so if we have time another one or two brews will be attempted?
Finally we would like to thank all of you that have made it such a pleasant and successful summer, with your purchases and encouraging comments and help ,it makes it all worthwhile, thank you and hopefully see you soon.
P.S. We still have a small stock of the wines we have run out of here, in the UK, so if you would like any of these in the U.K. we are able to supply them duty paid from our store in London,e- mail us for details.

THURSDAY SO IT MUST BE??

Its Gourmand Time again and the last one in the canton for me at Aujols starts at 7. Could rearrange the first one at Fontanes which was cancelled due to bad weather but I think not, watch this space. Sarah tonight will be at Catus and we will both be at Montpezat tomorrow night for the night market/gourmand evening. See you later?

 
Harvest fast approachs and we've got so much to do beforehand, so to make things easier and because people are booking flights already we need to know who is participating or would like to participate? Food needs to be planned and the cooks need to know how many to cater for.The main event will take place over the weekend of 2nd and 3rd October but we will be picking the week before in small parties if you prefer. Any questions give us a call. 05 63 64 97 21 or Sarah portable 06 16 07 075 39.

Doesn't time fly???

Well its Thursday again,GOURMAND NIGHT.I'll be at Lalbenque and Sarah will be at Saint Pierre Lafeuille,so don't be late! Besides all the events we are attending work continues in the vineyard ,the grapes are just beginning to change colour and the weeding by hand never seems to come to an end, a bit like painting the Forth Bridge!!
Hopefully next week we will start to bottle our new wines one already in the Guide Hachette,VAT665, also JAS pure Cabernet Franc and the Gamay Merlot blend.

Its Thursday so it must be belmont St Foi and Cieurac

Its cloudy but who cares it Thursday and Gourmand Evening time again, I'll be in the little village of Belmont St Foi and Sarah will be at Cieurac next to the Chateau. Don't forget your knife fork plate etc. See you later?

SIXTEEN YEARS!!!!

For sixteen years we have woken up to views like this and we never get tired of them , how lucky we are!

Its Tuesday so it must be Lalbenque?

Tonight we will be at lalbenque night market and Gourmand Evening working as usual, but we will take some time out to celebrate Sarah's %$£@_* birthday and our anniversary of being here 16 years ,hope you can make it.The book is now closed for bets on the position of our stand since Sarah ,has Zac with her and he may get a better place? If not you will find us next to the band or furthest away from the tables possible but just in the commune? See you later??

August starts with a bang of thunder,wet and horrible

Well after a very long dry spell we managed a bit of bright weather to get our Sunday Markets off to a good start for the month of August,however, it didn't last long! With so many things going on in the afternoon throughout the region most of them became a washout as the heavens opened and the rain came down! The Fete de Battage at ST Antonin was particularly affected,but Zac managed to take some pictures of some of the tractors but not allot else! He did manage to film the horse drawn walnut press if your interested,sorry about picture quality.