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Pale pink wine

Three years ago I spent 6 months travelling around France looking for the country’s palest bottle of rosé. The adventure was eventually turned into a book - Extremely Pale Rosé - and the winning bottle of wine was a gris from Corsica - Clos Landry. When we presented the wine to the professionals at the Centre de Recherche et Experimentation de Le Vin Rosé in Vidauban they described the colour as “peau de bebe.”

Restaurant review - La Petite Maison de Cucuron

Perestrello Geller eats at La Petite Maison:

I had a girlfriend once who had the miraculous ability to be in two or even three places at once. She had long lustrous dark hair and almond eyes which held a glance for a quavering, quivering, indecent second too long.

In the early stages of our relationship she kissed me goodnight at a teasingly early hour and but for her irresistible almond eyes we would have split up when I discovered that she was cramming two dates into the same evening.....

FEATURE: Behind the scenes of a Provencal market

When author Jamie Ivey spent a year researching his third book about Provencal markets, he discovered that life behind the picturesque stalls was not as rosy as it seemed....

Early one Sunday morning in July the first whisper of the day’s heat stirs through the narrow streets of L’Isle sur La Sorgue. The backs of vans clatter open, olives are decanted from vast plastic vats into pretty wicker baskets, table legs snap open and parasols are fanned out like peacock’s tails. A trader stabs open a fresh cardboard box full of jars of tapenade and sun dried tomato paste. He wipes each individually with a cloth and mounts them on his stall in a rainbow of Provencal colours. Still the vans keep on coming - honey vendors, lavender sellers, fruit and vegetable men - the space evaporates as the blistering sun levers the weak moon below the horizon.

Food and Wine feature: Rosé tasting in Lourmarin

In 1976 English wine merchant Steven Spurrier organised a blind tasting of the best French and American wines. To the lasting shock of the wine industry the American wines won and the tasting was christened the Judgement of Paris. In a light-hearted tribute to this event Blue Sky Living hosted its own tasting. This time the wine was rosé and the competition for the French came from the booming English wine industry....