Busy Grape Picking
29th October 2018
The grape picking season is well underway in France although our region, the Correze, is not known for wine-making and there are very few vineyards. Indeed the Correze is known more for it’s Limousin cattle, chestnuts and for apple growing. Most of the wine produced in the Correze is in the south around Brive, now more famous for it’s rugby club which has a large number of English players. As well as these wines the region is known for Vin Paille which translates as straw wine, so called because the grapes are left to dry on straw matting until around