Awards and citations:


1997: Le Prix du Champagne Lanson Noble Cuvée Award for investigations into Champagne for the Millennium investment scams

2001: Le Prix Champagne Lanson Ivory Award for investdrinks.org

2011: Vindic d'Or MMXI – 'Meilleur blog anti-1855'

2011: Robert M. Parker, Jnr: ‘This blogger...’:

2012: Born Digital Wine Awards: No Pay No Jay – best investigative wine story

2012: International Wine Challenge – Personality of the Year Award




Wednesday 29 June 2011

Mid June 2009: some archive photos from a trip to Bué, Chavignol etc.

A palette of wine from Lucien Crochet being loaded in the centre of Bué

Some empties: Sancerre and a Champagne bottle

Part of the centre of Bué


Eau non potable (not drinking water)
Statue

Jean-Christophe Bourgeois (Henri Bourgeois, Chavignol)

Bertrand Minchin, La Tour Saint Martin – Menetou-Salon and Valençay

1 comment:

Luc Charlier said...

Your “statue” is a tribute to our “Manneken Pis”, quite clearly.
“De Bué à Chavignol,
Tous les Sancerre sont pissés dans les Marolles ! »
would be my motto, with good reason. I guess there’s more of the stuff drunk in Belgium than anywhere else in the world. By the way, it’s my Mum’s favorite white wine, on a par with Silvaner Frankenwein.