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1997: Le Prix du Champagne Lanson Noble Cuvée Award for investigations into Champagne for the Millennium investment scams

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

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

2011: Robert M. Parker, Jnr: ‘This blogger...’:

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

2012: International Wine Challenge – Personality of the Year Award




Monday 11 October 2010

Turning leaves and the end for sprints on the Avenue de Grammont, Tours

Virginia creeper changing colour

Over the last week or so the change in the colours in Touraine has started to accelerate. Our Virginia creeper has started to turn its customary glorious deep red before the leaves finally tumble to the ground.

Yesterday the latest edition of the Paris-Tours cycle race (La classique des feuilles mortes) was run. Oscar Freire was the winner of the final edition to finish on the famous Avenue de Grammont – one of the mythical sprint finishes as the road is straight for 2700 metres with the finish close to the Hotel de Ville in central Tours. The race was first run in 1896. Although it originally started from Paris it now starts at St-Arnould-en-Yvelines, some 50 km south of the capital. The construction of the new tramway means that it will not be possible to use Grammont in the future.  



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