In the next few days you’ll start to see a few changes creep onto the FWW site, not least of which is a fully revamped wine list. After a few jaunts around the country earlier this year we find ourselves with an expanded portfolio of Distributorships and have been appointed agents for two French wineries to represent them in the Alpes – Martimes. There are a few old friends we’ll be sticking with – new vintages plus a few range extensions, but we are most proud to now be working closely with both Château des Chaberts in the Var and Domaine de Mourchon in the Southern Rhône village of Séguret.
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I have finally topped up the dangerously low Riesling levels in my body with a long overdue Wine Tour of Germany. Part work, part pleasure we had an exhilarating time trotting round Weingut’s and Estates in the Pfalz, the Nahe and the Mosel, picking up samples to use for our Wine Courses and Wine Tastings.
For those of you who think German wine is all sugary sweet and vapid medium wines such as Liebfraumilch, Blue Nun and Black Tower, it is time to rethink and revisit.
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