Charente wines making the headlines

21/04/2013

Charente wine

Charente wine, anyone?

Naturally enough, this website been going on for a while about the quality of Poitou-Charentes wines.

So it’s great to see an initiative being carried out in the French media to promote some of these great drinks. [click to continue…]

The Hermione at Rochefort finally gets a main mast

10/03/2013

Hermione Rochefort

Getting there...

It seems to be taking forever…

But slowly the Hermione, a replica of the famous ship that took the Marquis de Lafayette across the Atlantic in 1789 to help the Americans fight against the British,  is starting to take shape. [click to continue…]

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Sinéad O’Connor comes to Cognac Blues Passions

February 6, 2013

It’s barely February but already we known some of the big names in the annual music festival that is Cognac Blues Passions. One of the headline acts will be the popular and occasionally controversial Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor.                      

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China and cognac – a modern love affair

January 27, 2013

Just how important is China is to the Poitou-Charentes? Very! This week the Chinese ambassador to France was invited to the region and the red carpet was shampooed and vacuumed before being rolled out in style. At a specially organised event at Cognac, the ambassador, His Excellency Kong Quan, was on stage flanked by the [...]

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