...près du Château de Chenonceau. That puts it less than 15 miles west of Saint-Aignan. I'm going there this morning, unless I find the roads too icy for me to do the drive safely. I guess I'll wait a little while for the sun to come up and warm up the pavement. La Gourmandière is one of several big wine companies and wine shops (cave à vins) in the eastern part of what used to be the Touraine province in the Loire Valley. It's worth the drive for the variety and quality of the wines it makes and then sells at very reasonable prices La Gourmandière used to be a wine co-op with a membership of several hundred grape-growers, but it was sold to a new owner a few years ago.
La Gourmandière produces and sells "still" (not sparkling) red, rosé, and white wines as well as white and rosé sparkling wines in bottles. It also sells non-sparkling red, white, and rosé wines in bag-in-box containers as well as in bulK (en vrac). In other words, you can bring your own containers to the winery and the staff fill them for you with wine that is stored in huge stainless-steel vats. The wines I'm interested in today are red Côt (a.k.a. Malbec) and Cabernet Franc wines sold in ten-liter bag-in-box containers for two euros per liter. That would be the equivalent of thirteen 75cl bottles for about $22 U.S. Here's a link to the company's web site.
P.S. I just published this post after not being able to do so yesterday. I don't know why. It posted partially, but the result was a post that didn't allow comments and didn't display the blog's sidebar. I hope this one is working today.
Can I comment?
ReplyDeleteAlso all the sidebar bits are still missing...
I'll now copy this, so that I can paste it back in with what remains of this post yesterda....y....................
And, having copied and then published.... all the expected sidebar bits are back....
ReplyDeleteBut, although all the expected sidebar bits are visible on individual posts.... they aren't when you look at the main page with all the posts in date order.
ReplyDeleteHope that's of use, Ken
Hi Tim, I'm slightly mystified by your comments. I don't believe you can go onto my blog as an author and copy the code and content of a post. Is that what you did. Now, just a minute ago, I opened my latest post and the sidebar was again missing. Then I clicked on something, can't remember what, and it all came back. Blogger is quickly collapsing, I think.
DeleteNo, Ken…. I was referring to the page as seen on screen… Splogger displays a vertical selection of posts on the main page for anyone’s blog with the most recent at the top.
DeleteAll that that was showing me was the page header, followed by a succession of posts. No sidebar stuff showing.
When I clicked on this morning’s post, that opened as expected… and all your normal sidebar info was there! Then having made that comment above, I went back to your main page and it was all empty again.
And it is still like that… I’m checking on my iPad Pro and my Fenêtres 11 laptop….
So it is definitely a Blogga problem… I am using Safari on this and Chrome on my laptop and it is displaying the same on both…. Walt’s blog is displaying normally!
NB: I’m a Nonny Mouse again because Safari doesn’t let me sign in for Blogga [except for my own blog…. Daft I call that!]
The copying I did was of my comment… in case it disappeared 👻 like often seems to happen.
DeleteIt was definitely Blogger people's tinkering that caused all the mess on my post over the past couple of days. This morning it's all working fine. Sidebar is there when I open the post. I read something the other day that said there's "a new crowd" running Blogger. When things go haywire on my blog, my first impulse is to see if I can figure out if I've done something wrong. Sometimes it is, sometimes it's not. Thanks for your good comment, Tim.
DeleteSeems to be working. The price sounds amazing.
ReplyDeleteAh, okay, I thought I was confused, because I was sure that I had seen this post yesterday LOL. The sidebar is back (a moment ago, it was all the way down at the bottom of the page, as it was yesterday... and, nothing in the sidebar was clickable, yesterday, but they are good, now!).
ReplyDeleteKen, what is the official name and placement of Saint-Aignan, now... meaning, including the département and region?
The official name of the commune or town is Saint-Aignan. Sometime you see or here it called Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, but that's not official. Saint-Aignan is at the southernmost edge of the Loir-et-Cher département, which is centered on Blois, 25 miles north of us. The Loir-et-Cher is part of the Centre-Val de Loire region. Tours is the biggest town in the Centre-Val de Loire, ahead of Orléans, Bourges, Blois, and Châteauroux, entre autres.
DeleteThe official name of the commune or town is Saint-Aignan. Sometimes you see or hear it called Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, but that name's not official. Saint-Aignan is at the southernmost edge of the Loir-et-Cher département, which is centered on Blois, 25 miles north of us. The Loir-et-Cher is part of the Centre-Val de Loire region. Tours is the biggest town in the Centre-Val de Loire, ahead of Orléans, Bourges, Blois, and Châteauroux, entre autres.
DeleteThis cave has attractive signage. Do tour buses stop by places like this?
ReplyDeleteAdding to Evelyn’s comment, I’m thinking many people who visit the zoo might also buy wine here. Such great prices!
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Around these parts you might get one decent bottle for $22, not 13. I think wine is an item that's overpriced in the States.
ReplyDeleteBut, we are buying wine from next door 🚪 effectively… and France doesn’t tax wine very highly.
DeleteTo get it to the States you have both transport across the Pond and customs tariffs before it is in the public domain. Then you’ve got any alcohol taxes to apply, transport in the States… then, is the wine bought direct by the outlet or have they used a wholesaler… and, has that wholesaler bought from a bulk importer….
Every single one of those adds their markup to the final cost to you as you reach for the bottle on the shelf… and the person you are buying from needs to price the wine so that they make a living profit.
In 2017, I went back to the UK to bury my brother, some friends invited me for a meal and I thought I’d take a bottle of Vouvray… I found one in a wine shop and it was one we buy here for 5€…. The shop was charging £12.95… yes, I bought it, but it was an eye opener!!
In France, wine is a commodity. There's a surplus of it. In the U.S., wine is a luxury product. I'm surprised that that Vouvray was only £12.95.
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