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2001: Le Prix Champagne Lanson Ivory Award for investdrinks.org

2011: Vindic d'Or MMXI – 'Meilleur blog anti-1855'

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2012: Born Digital Wine Awards: No Pay No Jay – best investigative wine story

2012: International Wine Challenge – Personality of the Year Award




Wednesday 18 November 2015

bioTfoule: Organic Touraine producers in Hotel de Ville, Tours – Saturday 21st - Sunday 22nd November




This coming weekend Salon des vignerons bio tourangeaux: – Hotel de Ville de Tours. 

Looks excellent – many producers whose wines I want to taste – some I know well, some I don't. It's free entry and just €4 to buy a glass. Tours' magnificent Hotel de Ville is but a short walk from Tours Railway Station.   

Samedi 21 novembre de 11 h à 19 h
Dimanche 22 novembre de 10 h à 18 h

List of Vignerons present:
Xavier Amirault (Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil)

Claude Aupetitgendre (AC Touraine and Montlouis)
Cyril and Fabien Boisard (Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil)
Ludovic Chanson (Montlouis)
Xavier Courant (Bourgueil)
Frédéric Courtemanche (Montlouis)
Régis et Gabrielle Dansault (Montlouis)
Sandrine Deschamps (Bourgueil)
Domaine Fabrice Gasnier (Chinon)
Pierre et Rodolphe Gauthier (Bourgueil)
Hervé, Jean-Daniel Kloeckle et Vincent Bergeron (Montlouis)
Laurent Herlin (Bourgueil)
Lise et Bertrand Jousset (Montlouis)
Pascal et Béatrice Lambert (Chinon)
Thierry Landry (Chinon)
Frédéric Mabileau (Anjou. Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil, Bourgueil)
Benoît Mérias (Montlouis)
Jean-Max Manceau (Chinon)
Marc Plouzeau (Chinon)
Wilfred Rousse (Chinon)
Frédéric Sigonneau (Chinon)
Pierre Sourdais (Chinon)
Domaine Johann Spelty (Chinon)
Kathleen Van den Berghe (Bourgueil)  

By happy coincidence I will be in Tours on Saturday there for a two-day conference that starts on the Friday, so I hope to have time to sneak out and taste some wines.

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