Winemakers make wine – and blogs too

Iris Rutz-Rudel is a winemaker who lives about 50 kilometres north of Béziers. I wrote about her charming blog a few weeks ago, and she has dropped me a note about the latest addition to the blog, or rather blogs.

Iris started off with her diary in French nearly four years ago, then began another blog in her native German in autumn 2005. Last month she launched a new one in English, at http://lissondiary.wordpress.com.

At the moment it has wonderful pictures of fresh vine shoots and the first flowers on the vines and olives and sweet chestnuts, in her little vineyard in the Jaur Valley after the recent thunderstorms.

Les vignerons blogueurs

Les vignerons blogueurs - winemakers who blog

Iris also mentioned a site with the following image (see right). No, it’s not a painting of my better half sipping her wine while doodling around on “th’aul interweb yoke” (as she calls it).

In fact it’s the logo of  ”Les vignerons blogueurs” – people like Iris who make wine, and who also use their blogs to reach a much wider audience around the world.

Over 20 of these blogger winemakers – not just from France but from Italy, Spain, Portugal and further afield – are meeting up for the first time at the Vinexpo later this month, to share experiences and meet their online readers.

It all takes place on Monday 22 June, from 11am to 7pm at the Château Luchey Halde in Mérignac, just outside Bordeaux centre.

Everybody is welcome, so visit the wine bloggers’ website (which has English translations) and drop them an email if you are thinking of attending. You might even meet Iris there.

I myself will be stuck in Ireland for the whole of June, in the rain… Quel dommage!