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April 04, 2006

VVV: a Very Vinous Vaucluse evening

A few weeks my friend Jean Philippe Héaumé had mentioned an evening with a few friends and winemakers, tasting good wine. This sort of get-together had already happened a year ago, again instigated by Jean Philippe, the pretext being to taste a bottle of 1955 Château Rayas white sweet wine; at least 20 wines were served as "apéritif " back then... Jean Philippe is an online French wine merchant who... delivers!, each stop in his regular Tour de France becomes a "happening". His site is Absoluvins (in french).

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Lucien Biolatto contemplates his Clos du Mont Olivet Chateauneuf-du-Pape

Add to this the fact that the event is to be held at La Martelière, the wonderful bed and breakfast of our friends Patrick et Annick Laget, at Le Thor in the beautiful Provençal countryside of Vaucluse; impossible to resist, I reserved without hesitating.

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April 03, 2006

Photoblog test 1

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Jean Philippe Héaumé and Eric Sapet

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April 01, 2006

Live MMS test from Nokia cellphone

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Spice market in Istanbul
this is from a trip last year

Posted by Mike Tommasi at 10:06 AM
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