Where did our chateau go? French village loses its landmark

Dec 5, 2012

(Guardian) - The mayor of a small wine-making village near Bordeaux has taken legal action after a picturesque 18th-century chateau mysteriously disappeared. Residents of Yvrac were baffled to find that the vast Bellevue chateau, with ornate stone balustrades and 13,000 square metres of rooms surrounded by vineyards had been reduced to a mound of mud last month, apparently bulldozed while a construction firm were supposed to be restoring it to past glory. Dmitry Stroskin, a Russian businessman, had bought Bellevue and secured a planning permit to destroy one small outhouse while repairing the historic main chateau which was in a bad state.

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Dawn
Dec 10, 2012

I have been making fruit wine since 1977. I have had quite a lot of sseccus, the variety is almost endless, flavors cam be increased by mixing fruits during brewing or after the brewing is complete. I am in Australia and I am looking for clubs in Australia where the members are actively making fruit wine. I live in Melbourne where the summer temperature is rather warm, we have a large variety of fruit and the warm temperature produces lots of natural sugar giving a good alcohol content to the finished product. Fresh fruit without preservatives is readily available at very reasonable prices. Also fresh grape juice both red and white is available without preservative. Grape juice can be added to fruit wine to enhance the fermentation process. I would like to hear from anyone interested if producing fruit wine. My E-mail address is above, if someone wishes to talk to me and they E-mail me their phone number with convenient times to call I would phone them back, please include country and the nearest big town so that I can consult the world clock for time zone.

 
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