Au Salon des Vins de Loire 2010

 

Dress code: absolutely essential to be comfortable when tasting wine

We are off to the Salon very early this morning. Unfortunately leaving later than usual in the week preceding the Salon, so that it won't be possible to make anything like our customary round of visits – none in Touraine or Saumur and just a few in Anjou. The plan is to catch an early Eurotunnel shuttle and head straight to Vincent and Catherine Ogereau in Saint-Lambert-du-Lattay. Then to Claude and Joëlle Papin before checking in at the Hotel du Mail in Angers and then out to eat, for the first time, at Chez Rémi.

Sunday morning it's the Good, the Bad and the Pretty Ugly show – otherwise known as the Renaissance tasting at the Greniers de Saint-Jean, Angers. Then a couple of afternoon visits – Philippe Germain at Château de la Roulerie and Victor Lebreton at Domaine du Montgilet.

PS I see that light snow showers are forecast for around Angers later today...