I’m continuing to post a trah lah lah song each day in honor of our Trah Lah Lah cuvée. Today’s hits really close to home. This is a chanson paillarde or sort of naughty drinking song. Very often, at the end of big lunches and dinners, once everybody has had a lot of trah lah [...]

I just had a spectacular hike to the Chateaux de Lastours last night where we had a picnic and watched the sunset. One of my buddies at ESC Dijon’s wine commerce program stayed at the B&B this week with his girlfriend. And Gabriella Opaz came up from Barcelona too. Everybody asked me how they could [...]

This post is about an event held by the Independent Winemakers of Aude (Vignerons Independents de l’Aude) that organizes dozens of picnics around the departement of Aude.   The picnics all take place on June 12 and 13, 2011.  For information about visiting O’Vineyards and eating with us, please see our vineyard visitors page Picnic with [...]

L’Independant carried an article last Friday (March 11th 2011) about La Confédération paysanne de l’Aude and their refusal to pay any more money to the CIVL (interprofessional group for winemakers in the Languedoc).  I don’t know much of the legal framework, so don’t take any of this as canon.  And feel free to correct me. [...]

VinoCamp Languedoc March 19th and 20th Carcassonne à la CCI A detailed schedule will come soon. But the important thing is to book your tickets and hotels for this lovely weekend in March.  A hundred wine professionals and Internet people will come together at the Chambre de Commerce et de l’Industrie in Carcassonne.  There will [...]

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.