We just blinked, and somehow, we’re half-way through Organic September already – the Soil Association’s month-long campaign to raise awareness of the many benefits of organic food and farming. To celebrate, we asked local sustainable food blogger HungryCityHippy to share her thoughts on organic food (and wine) with us – it might inspire you to …

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The Mazilly family have been  vineyard owners for generations, but it is only in the past fifty years or so that they have bottled and sold their wines under their own label. Based in Meloisey, a village in the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune, they also now have cellars in the village of Meursault.. They now own …

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At the end of the nineteen sixties, the Spanish wine with the highest reputation was Vega Sicilia, from a village on the southern bank on the River Duero or Douro. This wine was made from a blend of Bordeaux grape varieties and the local Tinto del País, a clone of the Tempranillo. In the village …

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Château du Seuil lies at the extreme south-east of the Graves appellation, overlooking the river Garonne and bordering the sweet wine appellation of Barsac. This gives it the opportunity of  producing a range of wines in a variety of styles. Whilst the château itself dates back only to the nineteenth century, there have been vines …

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At the time of the Spanish Civil War the Forner family left their home country and went to settle across the border in France. In due course they came to own Château Camensac, a 5ième cru classé in the Mèdoc and Château Larose-Trintaudon, the largest vineyard in the Haut-Médoc. With the death of Franco and …

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