What do all these letters mean?
I recently wrote about Lilian Bauchet getting controlled.   Those of you who read French, check out Lilian’s whole post as he does a good job of explaining the rather convoluted delineation between the various organizations in the alphabet soup that legislates our vineyards. ODG, INAO, [...]

Remember that CouchSurfing group that was hitchhiking to all the French towns with dirty names in the southwest?
Well it turns out there is a club of French towns with naughty names. And they have an annual parade.
Well, this means I get to expand my list of favorite town names. Maybe we should do [...]

Super Smellers.
When we smell pears, it’s like we smell a thousand pears.

I attended the general assembly of indie winemakers for the departement de l’Aude. It was okay. They’re in good financial shape and they get a lot done for indie winemakers.