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  Chateau d’Etroyes Mercurey The village of Mercurey was an important trading post for the Romans in the days of Empire. Set along the Arles-Lyon section of the Via Agrippa trade network -built during the...

Wine of the Week - Le Grand Noir, Pinot Noir Robert Joseph Caveat Emptor; The ‘Le Grand Noir’ is owned in part by Robert Joseph, a great man of wine and letters, whom I very proudly...

  Stones of Gold Situated near Lyon, at the southern, warmer end of Beaujolais, is a little village called Charnay. On the northwest edge of the village you will find a small area known locally as...