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Thomas Charlut is responsible for the Greatest Chablis List in the World for range, depth and reasonable pricing. The Chef Sommelier of Hostellerie des Clos has worked in the Chablis restaurant 20 years. He is photographed next to a painting of Chef Michel Vigneau, who earned 1 Michelin star for the restaurant …

From this … … to this BREAKING NEWS!SINGAPORE PASSPORT Getting into France will be considerably easier now. If you happen to be travelling on a Singapore passport. You no longer need to queue with most other nationalities in the “manual” lane. Instead, Singapore passport holders can head to the automated …

A day – first visit, pre COVID, in 2019 – in the seaside town of Grau du Roi, 35 km south-west of Montpellier. Had lunch at Le Vivier, best seafood restaurant in the area. Domaine Gaujal’s Excellence de Ludovic is one of the world’s greatest Picpoul, aka Gros Plant and …

Un grand merci Patrice and Kalina for taking me out to see the harvest on a glorious day in FRAPIN’s 240-hectare vineyard in Cognac’s most treasured winegrowing region, la Grande Champagne. And to taste vins clairs from both Folignan and Ugni Blanc. What an absolute treat and revelation 🙀🤩🚀 (Original …

Patrice Piveteau is one of the most respected and complete grand masters of cognac.  About half his lifetime ago in 1991, he joined bejewelled Cognac Frapin as Vineyard Manager. Was later promoted to Master Blender and finally Cellarmaster, the person who holds the key to “Paradis”.  You transform from a …

A great afternoon with Edouard Braastad, Sales Director of his family owned Cognacs Braastad and Tiffon, the former from his Norwegian family side, and the latter originally from his French grandmother clan. His family acquired Chateau de Triac (not far from Jarnac) more than 70 years ago. Alexis Gonzalez joined …

Thank you again Edouard and Alexis for devoting an afternoon to your Singapore visitor. The offices, cuverie, distillery, and cellars by the Charente in Jarnac are full of colour, character and personality. The vineyards next to Chateau de Triac were bathed in glorious sunshine. What enviable treasures Cognacs Braastad and …

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