The holidaymakers and second-homers who flock to the Dordogne, many Brits among them, envision picturesque bastide towns, rolling countryside, and market stalls heaving with...
Tea and chips in the Dordogne
Guest contributor
Monday 28 May 2018
Purple Pagers may remember my 22 December 2017 call on the Members' forum for a pernickety, wine-loving perfectionist with copy-editing experience. We have been so blessed that Andrew Morris, a recent WSET Diploma graduate with many years of medical journal editing under his belt, responded to our call and since then has helped us enormously with uploading tasting notes to our database. Below he writes about a wine region we have ignored for too long.
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