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Guest Post · Taste · Wines and Spirits of Provence

Chateau La Coste New Discoveries at the Vineyard

October 10, 2017
It has been almost two decades since Anne-Marie Simons and her husband Oscar decided to uproot their Washington, D.C. lifestyle and spend their retirement years in the South of France. They eliminated other alternatives (continents, countries and cities) and chose Aix-en-Provence for its “quality of life.” The city’s attractive combination of culture, history, climate and …
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Books on Provence · Carolyne Kauser-Abbott · Inspire

Drink Pink a Celebration of Rosé an Interview with Victoria James

September 8, 2017
Certified Sommelier at 21-years old Youngest Wine Director in a Michelin-starred restaurant (globally) Ruinart Champagne Sommelier Challenge NY 2015 Winner Wine & Spirits Best New Sommeliers of 2016 “Drink Pink a Celebration of Rosé” published in May 2017 With all that Victoria James has accomplished at 26 years old one starts to wonder whether the wine …
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Books on Provence · Guest Post · Inspire

Book Review – One Sip at a Time Learning to Live in Provence

July 27, 2017
Peter Mayle certainly started something back in 1989 when he published A Year in Provence. What a best-seller that turned out to be, and it launched a whole genre of ‘newcomer-to-Provence-buys-old-house/olive-grove books that document the inevitable cultural differences that we all bump up against. Is there anything more to be said? Book review of the Keith Van Sickle book …
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Books on Provence · Caroline Longstaffe · Inspire

The Sunflower Field – The Story of Who First Cracked The Enigma Code

July 18, 2017
‘The Sunflower Field,’ my debut novel, is written to honor the ‘few’, of which there were thousands, who during World War II, in words inspired by Winston Churchill, “gave so much, for so many.” In particular for three of those ‘few’, the Polish mathematicians, Jerzy Rozycki, Marian Rejewski and Henryk Zygalski, with whom lies the origins of …
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