Wine festival

The third weekend in May is when Essoyes has its annual wine festival. It’s a great opportunity to try wines from all over France and buy if you find something you’d like to take home with you. You pay just €3 for your glass, then you can try as many wines as you’d like from the 30 or so producers. There’s also lot’s of other produce to try.

We particularly wanted to revisit G. Metz, an Alsacien producer who we have bought from before. We love wines from the Alsace region, and this is always a great way to try and buy without travelling there, although it’s only about four hours from us. We then chose a few new ones from other stalls to try, and were suitably impressed enough to buy.

It’s a fabulous event, and one we really value coming to, in a village just ten minutes from us. You find wine festivals all over France throughout the year, and they are a great way to try before you buy, and have access to wine direct from the producers.

After we’d all tasted and bought some wine we enjoyed a simple lunch of jambon or poulet et frites, before heading off for a game of boules.

What could be more French?