Chinon's horsetrack wrapped up its racing year on August 15 in a style befitting the world-renowned wine center.The traditional race bearing the name of the local wine federation rewarded the winning jockey with his weight in cases of the best Chinon wines.A red-robed muckety-muck of the Confrérie des Entonneurs officiated at…
The partial opening offers an excellent chance to enjoy sites without the three-deep crowds visitors have come to expect, especially in the summer
Two cities cannot be twinned within the same country, but the Loire Valley town of Amboise and Cahors in southwestern France have become joined at the hip thanks to their shared adventures with a historic grape variety known as Malbec in Cahors and Côt in the Tours region. Cahors has…
The French are serious about their wine, and none more so than the stalwarts of the Confrérie des Entonneurs Rabelaisiens--loosely translated, a brotherhood of winemakers who channel the great humanist and storyteller Rabelais. The people of the Loire Valley city of Chinon refer to the 16th-century satirist who gave us…