Le Couvent Diary

We've had our lovely Cambridge friends Sarah & Dawn visiting for the past three days. No-one gets to stay while Le Couvent is closed during the winter unless they put in a bit of work, so they pruned olives, bushwhacked thistles and planted salad & strawberries.

 

Their reward for all this work this was taking us out to lunch in Meze where we had stunning shellfish looking out over the sparkling sea. The Picpoul de Pinet was almost a finely chilled as the sea. Ali & I passed on the latter. Our sweet guests got soaked, but reckoned it most refreshing.

Hope you got home safely - come back soon eh? Happy birthday Sarah!

When we first arrived here some five years ago the wine made at the cave co-operative in Roujan turned your tongue blue after the first glass. Things have improved enormously and the wines are becoming drinkable. The labelling is still awful, sporting the Roujan hedgehog - a design so particular that it has to have been created by someone closely related to the maire.

I found this bottle on e-bay. The whole label is a pastiche - it's brilliant. Maybe they'd sell more if they used this design.