I'll drink to that!

3/3/2016

Cheers! Sante! Prost!

Opening the first bottle of Cuvee Bruno, made by my friends at Clos l'Envege vineyard, a Bergerac red wine of 70% Merlot, 20% cabernet sauvignon and 10% cabernet franc.

We launch it formally at Prowein - Europe's biggest wine fair - in Dusseldorf on 14 March. At 6 euros a bottle, it's a snip. Available from www.julien-de-savignac.com.

12 Comments

B L Boyer

20/3/2016 07:20:29 pm

Thank you for the wonderful Bruno books. I have never been to France but now feel that I have. Food, wine, truffles caves and mysteries. As a horsewoman and dog owner, you make the stories complete for me with the accounts of Hector, Gigi and Balzac!

Martin link

13/5/2016 09:15:55 am

I hope that one day you'll be able to experience the real France for yourself! It's enchanting, and even better in life than in fiction.

Bruno Courrèges

29/3/2016 08:12:45 am

Hi Martin and Cheers,
Since I discover your homonymous hero, I 've read several of his stories. Living near Bordeaux, I share a lot of with him, appreciate good products from South-West France and easily understand his attachement to Perigord. All that makes me a pleasure to read your books in English.
Thank you for your participation in improving my english!
Bruno.

Martin link

13/5/2016 09:16:42 am

You do seem to share a lot, including a name! I'm glad you like your alter ego...

Ulrike Rodrigues link

12/5/2016 03:02:52 pm

Hello! I'm a Vancouverite who recently spent 2015's winter months cat-sitting in the village of Lauzun, south of Bergerac. A neighbour introduced me to your Bruno books and I savoured each one while slowly sipping a newly-discovered 'moelleux' from Monbazillac wine. :-)

I brought my bicycle with me (see my 'Cardbordeaux' blog for stories and photos) and loved pedalling the backroads of your neighbour region, Lot-et-Garonne. I hope you will somehow include a cycling theme in one of your future novels? For example, I was very interested to learn that the nearby bastide village of Castillonnes is arguably the home of the creator of the Tour de France, a hairdresser named Theodore Joyeux -- yet you won't find any info on him! I hope you "create" a similar village near St. Denis? (I wrote a little blog post about him, but won't include the URL in case your comments section won't allow it.

And of course M. Bruno will tell the world about the prune orchards, oranais pastries (oh, how I miss them), and -- bien sur -- Armagnac! PS -- In one Cardbordeaux blog post, I specifically mentioned your books and their relation to the village of Sarlat. :-)

Thank you!

Ulrike Rodrigues

12/5/2016 03:05:25 pm

Hi again, oh, what the heck, here's the link to my Cardbordeaux blog: https://cardbordeaux.wordpress.com/.

A bientot, Ulrike in Canada

Martin link

13/5/2016 09:15:04 am

Thank you kindly! I hope you'll be pleased to learn that I do indeed have a cycling theme for a forthcoming Bruno...

Corona Rivera

12/7/2017 06:30:17 pm

Hello Martin,
I've enjoyed most of your Bruno stories, all that I've read, maybe all that you've written. There is one conversation that I want to revisit but I can't remember which book it is in. Please help: Bruno & Pamela (I think) are comparing French & English cusine and Pamela surprises Bruno with how good English food can be and explains how it went downhill. ( It's a bet, she cooks him an English meal.)

Please tell me the name of the book.

Thank you,
Corona

Martin link

13/7/2017 07:39:58 am

It is in the first novel, "Bruno, chief of police", when Bruno goes to dinner with Pamela and her friend Christine in chapter 19.

Corona Rivera

14/7/2017 04:18:18 pm

Thank you so much! I have a friend that needs to learn some pride in her English heritage. - With this being the first book I can introduce her to Bruno at the same time. :-)

Blanche Sprague

3/8/2017 12:54:34 pm

As an American who has lived in both France and England I must say that i have read one or two of your books, having enjoyed your
Preparation of Midsomer Murders for TV. France is known for uncaring attitude toward animals, which is tragic, and i do not care for for the noting of situations such as the English woman in
The Resistance man being elated by her inheritance, having hoped that her mother had not left part of it to The Battersea home for abandoned animals, or the rescue of aged donkeys.
It is beyond me as to your reason to gratuitously write that.
I find it distasteful and uncaring and I shall donate any other books by you to an animal charity in your name.

Martin link

5/8/2017 12:22:48 am

Dear Madame,
I write fiction. When I attribute an opinion to a character in my novels, it is not necessarily my own.
Indeed, like all fiction writers. I deliberately attribute views and opinions and statements to particular characters I invent in order to reveal something about that person.
So if you are offended by something a character says, please bear in mind that I might be equally offended by it.
Some of the characters I invent are not nice people; others are a mixture of good and bad.
It is one of the skills and challenges for an author to create characters who are credible.
Thank you for buying and reading and enjoying some of my work and as a dog-owner who loves animals I can only applaud your decision to donate to animal charities.
Best regards, Martin

I'll drink to that!

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