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We need a break…

In between lorries coming to pick up the order for Holland and another lot for the U.K today, we dashed across beautiful countryside to the cool and relative calm of the water mill I spoke of in the Auvergne region of France.
The geology is volcanic and before Beaujolais we became quite used [...]

Régnié is the most recently created of the Beaujolais Crus, the appellation having received its official decree only in 1988. As such it is still relatively unknown, and remains to be discovered by many. 
The 650 hectares of gently sloping vineyards are situated at an average altitude of some 300 metres, around the pretty village [...]