Loire: more photos from 2008 – a ploughing contest near Montrichard

On a rare hot summer day at the end of August 2008 we came across a ploughing contest in a field close to the road between Montrichard and Pontlevoy. Most of the competitors had small ploughing machine rather like rotovators with a plough attached, although there was at least one tractor pulling a plough. 

Click here for an earlier selection of photos from this contest.   

 Changing gear

Vintage tractor and plough

 Box-fresh kit for No 22

 Machine No 25 being guided by No 22

 

 Another red machine

 No 22 again

 Spectators (above and below)

Joe Dressner and Michel Delpech's Loir et Cher song

Pickers@Le Clos Roche Blanche enjoying a well-earned mid-morning break: September 2008

Good to see from his Captain Tumor Man blog that the legendary US wine importer, Joe Dressner, is continuing to recover from his brain tumour. The wines of the Loir et Cher will be theme of Louis Dressner's October tasting and will feature the Loir et Cher song by Michel Delpech as Joe explains:

'Loir-et-Cher is the theme of our October 27-28th tasting. Many great wines and great winemakers hail from this magic area and it is finally time that they receive the exposure they so richly deserve in New York City.

Of course, the theme song for the event is the brilliant song by Michel Delpech which depicts the struggles and history of the Loir-et-Cher region.'

Click here for the song. on youtube, which has some great black photos from the earlier part of the 20th century, although not all of them come from the Loir-et-Cher. There are some from the Morvan and certainly one from Alsace.