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A look at some of the work in the vineyard and winery at La Peira (Terrasses du Larzac) in Spring 09 over April and May...and a look at something a little different at the end... Mont St Baudile (2,750 ft) with views of Mont Ventoux and Pic St Loup in the east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Pic Canigou and the Pyrenees to the south west...[Click post for larger size]

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Kyle Meyer takes a look at the La Peira Wines on the TheWineryChannel.tv, worth a very good exploration in full. Great profile of Sine Qua Non there. Great Hot Legs Episode looking at Amarone, amongst many many others.



Kyle is Wine Czar at the Wine Exchange.



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Harvest 05 Film | Last day | Mourvedre | La Peira | Terrasses du Larzac near Aniane

Wine: Las Flors de la Peira



Our Region: Site of the first planted vineyard (as we know it today) in France a couple

of hundred years before the birth of Christ. Oldest viticultural region in France.



Taken a bit of a beating since then...



Site today of some many domaines putting their heart and soul into make brilliant wine.



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Stones, wind, silence.



I remember dusk in the Corbières, standing by a road on the way to Embres et Castelmaure, looking out into the geological scrapyard of crags and boulders. The scene was as lonely as Arizona: no car would be through before morning. You could smell the night coming on, though, as the warm air moved down to the sea, freighted with the odour of tough, oily little plants.



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