Loire Wine Tours

My blog today is about the delights of wine touring in the Loire valley. To me the most beautiful part of France to behold and one that you should visit not just if you are sampling the wines but most certainly if you have a passion for the most wonderful sights in the world. They […]

The wine blog today is all about Croatian wine. Croatia  has a history dating back to the Greeks settlers, and their wine production on the southern Dalmation islands of Vis, Hvar and Korcula some 2,500 years ago. Like other old world wine producers, many traditional grape varieties still survive in Croatia, perfectly suited to their local wine hills. Modern wine-production methods […]

  A lovely relaxed day spent with our friends Maggie and Peter. They are friends we met from our French end I mean the life of Wine tours and holiday guests and drinking wine all in the name of tasting at our base Manoir de Gourin in the most beautiful Loire Valley! Its a place of magic […]

So moving on from Anjou or not quite as we need to discover the grape of the Anjou and Saumur red appellation. A relatively late ripener, Cabernet Franc ia a hardy grape and resistant to rot, which enables it to take advantage of the Loire valley’s Indian summers. Planted in the Middle Ages, it arrived […]

Oh what a disappointment for us as we had hoped that Sandgate would embrace a new adventure.  Our first meeting of the wine club attracted the grand total of two people. Diana and George from Dover. Thank you for coming along. It would have been rather lonely otherwise. Anyway never mind we spent  a lovely evening […]

Our next tasting event at Saga in Enbrook Park in Sandgate will be on Friday 27 January in the Pavillion between 12 and 2pm during the lunch break. After our previous events there we hope to attract plenty of employees to our tasting. We will be tasting our favourite wines. This month we will be […]

We are busily contacting all our known friends and enemies to tell them about the inaugeral meeting of our Sandgate Strictly Wine Club on thursday at the reading room in the old historic Fire Station in Sandgate starting at 6pm. So anyone logging onto the blog near us here please come along. If you are […]

We are starting our new wine club in Sandgate this week with our first tasting of wines so if you are interested in joining us to taste and see what we have to offer please contact Simon on 01303 226692 or email: enquiries@thestrictlywineclub.co.uk. We will let you know the venue in Sandgate for the event which […]

I was reading an article by Andrea Catherwood today in the papers about the problems that we have fighting the big companies like the supermarkets. Did you know that 70% of the alcohol we consume is from supermarkets. That can’t be good healthy competition. Andrea took over her local pub that had gone bust a […]

The Loire valley is steeped in history and characters and throughout the middel ages and onwards the history of France and its relationship with the UK has ben interlinked. If you come and stay with us at Manoir de Gourin you will be able to partake in the experience. Henry of Anjou or Henry Plantagenet […]