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From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Tasting The Wines Of Tuscany in Greve In Chianti

June 18, 2009

Marco, explaining Tuscan wines

Each issue of our Newsletter I try to pick out bits of our tours that don’t make it into our brochure or onto our website. Personal observations rather than ‘tourist’-style details.
This month, I’d like to tell you about one of my favourite parts of our Tuscany tour that took me by [...]

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The Chain Gang – What’s Happening In June?

June 18, 2009

Our French season starts at the end of this month, with tours of Bordeaux and Provence starting on the 27th.
What’s June like in the vineyards? The main work is in the vineyards themselves. The vines have flowered back in May, which gives you roughly 100 days advance warning of the harvest. So in July the [...]

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