Roussillon 'French Catalonia' wine book

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*Travel features* with wine touring, restaurants, accommodation.

See selection below with links to each article. Also includes holiday and sightseeing experiences outside of a wine environment (surely not). This fairly long list goes back ten years - there are plenty more to highlight once I get around to it.
 

Coventry & Manchester: bars, beers, restaurants (Sept 2021). The Gourmet Food Kitchen, Dimitri's Taverna and Meze Bar, Atlas Bar, The Marble Arch Inn, Pizza Express.

Chiaramonte Gulfi

Southern Sicily (March 2021): Ragusa and Agrigento.

Roussillon 'French Catalonia, wild wine country' (Oct 2020): my whopping book is full of touring tips other than wine throughout Les Pyrénées Orientales!

Lavail Vigne near Maury (© CIVR).

New York State: Finger Lakes, Seneca & Cayuga (Nov. 2019).


Belgium and Netherlands: Bruges, Gent, Rotherdam, Haarlem: beer & eating. (Sept. 2019).

Bourgogne des Flandres brewery.

Germany: Saale-Unstrut region. (Nov. 2018).


Madeira July 2018:

Henriques & Henriques and D'Oliveiras.


Portuguese wines of the moment and Madeira restaurants.

More Roussillon wine touring, in images (Feb. 2018):

Roussillon photos part 1: Banyuls-sur-mer.

Vineyard in Les Aspres.

Roussillon photos part 2: Les Aspres.

Tokaji region in Hungary & Slovakia including focus on the charming town of Sárospatak (Feb. 2018): Hungary: Tokay, Harslevelu, Furmint, Pinot...


Greece: the Peloponnese (Sept. 2017).

Update on a mammoth Cahors wine touring guide (Sept. 2016):

Cahors: Combel La Serre, Haute-Serre, Mercues...


And French wine tasting & touring e-magazine.

English wine guide. (June 2016)


Spain: Cava guide. (Aug. 2015)

Languedoc special supplement 2015 and Languedoc more photos (July 2015).


Porto, Pinhão and Douro Valley July 2015:

Douro valley: Quinta de la Rosa and Porto & Douro: Quevedo.


And photos (also July 2015):

Pinhao area and Port and railway theme.

Slovenia wine and travel (March 2015).


Languedoc special supplement 2014 (Oct. 2014).

Croatia (May 2014).

Languedoc: Saint Chinian (Jan. 2014).


Chablis special focus report and Chablis on foot (June to Sept. 2013).

Cahors Malbec road trip (Feb. 2013).

Portugal: Algarve & Tavira (Aug. 2012).


Languedoc: Terrasses du Larzac and Saint Guilhem Le Désert (May 2012).

Undiscovered Spain: Castilla y Leon (Nov. 2011).


Wine touring in Lebanon November 2005: Beirut, Baalbek and Bekaa; wine, food and history...

"This fascinating trip was full of pleasant surprises in personally uncharted territory. Château Musar is still the star in certain ways but there are several wineries, large and small, that show great promise. Lebanon appears capable of offering something different, combining traditional French winemaking philosophy with a distinctive Middle Eastern accent; and sometimes high quality with reasonable prices..." Also includes Château Nakad, Château Ksara, Domaine des Tourelles, Clos Saint Thomas, Heritage, Château Kefraya, Cave Kouroum and Domaine Wardy... Plus an excellent piece on Lebanese food by John Salvi MW. Read it here (towards the bottom of this Lebanon page).

A trio of brief travel pieces written for City Life Manchester in 2001, 2002 and 2003:

Tunisia by taxi, Marseille by TGV and heatwave in Alsace.

Champagne by train June 2001:

(Link to follow...)

Bordeaux in brief April 2001:

I feel like a Château-tourist celebrity spotting as the grand and famous village names stroll serenely by through the coach window: Margaux, Saint-Julien, Pauillac, Saint-Estèphe... Full monty here (retro Bordeaux page - scroll to bottom).

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