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Winter time = Ski time for some of you !

If you  do, you usually make the most by eating "fondue savoyarde" (melted cheese of Savoie) or "tartiflette" (potatoes with ham and cheese)... For the wine lovers you have the "Vin chaud" (Mulled wine), but not only...



For the 7th time, there is the "Tournée Bordeaux Neige". From February 13th to April 13th, a group of people (winegrowers and people from the Bordeaux and Bordeaux Supérieur wine association) goes from ski resort to another (in the Pyrenees and the Alps) to promote Bordeaux, and Bordeaux Supérieur wines (Both are AOC / appellations). You will be proposed to participate to wine tasting sessions in the slopes ! So niiiiiiice !!!   : )

And for the 1st time, the "Tournée Bordeaux Neige" will go in Swiss ski resorts ! 

Information and dates on http://planete-bordeaux.fr/actus/actualites/1/208/tourn%C3%A9e-bordeaux-neige-2012.html


Ski fab', ski chic, ski fashion ! This could be the motto of Bernard Magrez for the launching in Courchevel, French Alps, of the "Skis Pape Clément" package (Pape Clément is a Grand Cru Classé from the Graves). The ski have been designed by Alain Zanco from the famous brand AZ. They are well designed, very elegant, and composed of technological materials (carbon, brass...).

In the package you have :
- a pair of skis and sticks
- a luxuous leather case
- 6 bottles of Château Pape Clément, Vintage 2006
- a night for 2 on the estate, a tour and a wine tasting session
- a ski session with Sébastien Amiez, famous French ski champion

This package is limited ! Only 5 are available at 5 995 Euros at the sport stores "The Edge" in Courchevel, at the Bernard Magrez stores in Courchevel and in Paris, at the Château Pape Clément, and in the hotels of Courchevel in "the Lana", "the Saint-Roch", "the St Joseph" and "the Cap Horn".

And for those who can't go to ski in the mountains while enjoying wine, sometimes the mountain comes to you in vineyards.

Last weekend in Saint-Emilion, Bordeaux right bank vineyard, people did snow ! Yes, yes !

We doooooo know that there is no mountain there, that's why several trucks brang the snow just before the weekend. It has been installed in an opened car park in the village, so that it was very easy to welcome lots of ski-addict-or-not people. (There were lots of people, especially children, so it was very hard to ski !)

For the wine lovers there were wines to taste in the village (of course !!!! We are in the capital of wine !). The Château Cardinal-Villemaurine, a family owned Saint-Emilion Grand Cru estate, was opened for tours and tastings for free. Very interesting (we have followed the vinification process, and visited the underground caves) and yummy !!!!!

This had been organised by N'Py (Nouvelle chaîne des Pyrénées) in association with the city of Saint-Emilion, the Tourist Office and the Château Cardinal-Villemaurine.

Enjoy ski, love wine ! Cheers !

Adeline