"It is a very good day. We got a new tractor and the cicadas didn't start singing until 9AM." So began our wonderful day at Moulin de la Gardette, a small family-run estate in the Gigondas district of France's southern Rhone Valley about 45 minutes from Avignon. We spent a ...

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