While still working on increasing their volume of sales in the US, the Cahors wines are also getting very popular in China. A Chinese journalist, george Zhao, spend a full week visiting the vineyards of Cahors and left, convinced that Cahors wines are totally adapted to Chinese taste buds ... of the ten stores Prince Henrik will open in China. Continue reading "Cahors wines in China"

If the zoo keepers in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, can be believed there's nothing better to keep the local monkeys safe from the H1N1 virus than French Cahors wine. Click for source Strange as it may sound, Cahors has a good reputation in Russia. Emperor Peter I drank Cahors (Russian: кагор) and the Russian Orthodox Church adopted it as

An 8-year-old male macaque Tasik drinks Cahors wine in the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, November 6, 2009. A zoo keeper gave red wine to the monkeys because he believes it is a preventative measure against the H1N1 flu disease. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA ENVIRONMENT HEALTH IMAGES OF THE DAY)

... ôtes de Provence; Domaine du Souleillou 1980, Cahors. The first two were interesting, educational, enjoyable; the third was the knockout. I had read in various books that Cahors, dominated by the malbec grape, there called auxerrois, produced tough, rustic, full-bodied “ ... the local hearty cuisine; it’s perfect with cassoulet. Cahors lies athwart the Dordogne river in a rugged area ...

... . . $39.99 BEST PRICE ANYWHERE! CLOS LA COUTALE CAHORS 2007 Wine Spectator 90 points : "Big, rich and darkly colored-these are the descriptors for the best red wines from the Cahors district of southwest France. The leading grape is Malbec ( ... . Besides an array of dark fruit flavors, the following wines from Cahors offer plenty of muscle and dense structures. They beg ...

... a list of perhaps 200 bottles, GM Shing Chin (formerly of Wild Ginger and West Seattle’s Ovio Bistro) comes up with not one wine within 100 miles of Toulouse (nothing from Fronton, Madiran, Cahors, or Gascogne). Okay, so you're all about Nawlins (NOLA's Abita Amber's a good start on the beer side), not France, but how hard would it be to give your wine list a regional focus as ...