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A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Wine with Leslie Williams: Bottles from the Loire Valley

As promised a few weeks ago, I’m giving over my column to the Loire Valley, a region I have holidayed in regularly since 1994.

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Wine with Leslie Williams: Two vineyard visits for your holidays

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Wine with Leslie Williams: Selecting stars of the Loire

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Wine for the summer

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Six wines to get you in the mood for summer

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My contribution to the Litfest Local Hero theme is the monastrell grape

Réserve des Vignerons, Saumur, Loire Valley 2010 — €13.99-14.99

SCHOOL’S out so many families will soon be packing up the car and driving to France to stay at camp-sites or perhaps rented gites.

Sun, 13 Jul, 2014

Wine: Treasure your wine merchant

THESE are not good days to be a wine lover, but spare a thought for anyone foolish enough to turn their love of wine into a career.

Sun, 27 Oct, 2013

Domaine des Grandes Espérances Sauvignon Blanc

THIS week I want to write about a wine region dear to my heart that is hardly known in Ireland, despite the fact that it is the nearest wine region to Ireland — the Loire Valley.

Sun, 10 Mar, 2013

Greenpeace storms French nuclear plant

Greenpeace environmental activists have stormed into the grounds of a French nuclear power plant in a “non-violent” action aimed at showing the vulnerability of atomic sites in France.

Mon, 05 Dec, 2011