The wines of South West France are not particularly well known, and when it comes to the restaurant where we were staying at Lourdes, most people go for the more familiar names, of which the most obvious is Bordeaux. Yet few knew about the delights of the various red and white wine districts around the foremost pilgrimage destination in France. Of course, the wines of Madiran, Jurancon etc are no strangers to me (I blogged about trying them last year).
One dinner, somebody decided to get the various pilgrims from our nearly 100 strong contingent from Australia, Hong Kong, Korea and Thailand mixing together. Someone had offered me a glass the night before, so I ordered a bottle from a well known producer in Madiran and started offering it to the others. Many were quite surprised at the quality of this (to them) unknown wine.
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