Pontdugard

Just a couple or more questions for you (please) where did you enter into the contract? what was the contract for? what were the terms of the contract? If you entered into the contract in the UK was it with a UK organisation, individual or corporate body? Did the contract involve works in France? If the contract was basically in the UK then subject to UK law. what was the clause in this respect in your contract subject to UK or French law? Has anyone obtained judgment against you or threatened to obtain judgement and if so was it in the UK or France. Either way if someone obtains judgement they can enforce that judgement either in the UK or in France. The latter takes some time and is only really on if the sum is relatively substantial. If you can respond to the above I will come back to your with my opinion but I would suggest seeing a lawyer asap.

What a wonderful but in part sad start to the day. I am putting this together looking out over the garden with here in Wales lots and lots of snow. At the bottom of our garden is a very old apple tree and the loves of our lives are placed to rest under the tree. We have planted daffodils and the like so in the spring it just seems right and something is born again! When I am working in that area of the garden I often stop and here I know that lots of the forum would think I have completely lost it but I talk to my pets. It is just my way of dealing with the continuing grief I feel at the loss of some absolutely magnificient pets. Amongst them were two brilliant basset hounds.........the breed I have loved for over 30 years. Well done what a wonderful piece.

Surely the currency in France is euros. The sale is in France and not the UK. I may well be wrong but you cannot conduct the sale in the UK> Yes administered from the UK but that is all. I just cannot imagine our Notaire being faced with the thought of as against euros. As I said I may be wrong but the place where the contract is completed and indeed carried out is the place and the only place and thus euros apply. Please put me out of my pain, for if I am wrong I would then like to think of a currency that is in our favour when we are shortly to complete and move on. regards

>I am no wine expert but >I have a few hundred >euros to spare and a >large cellar, and I know >that 2003 was a very >good year. Earlier I was >advised to wait until 2004 >to buy 2003 wine, now >the question is where do >I go to get the >best value - do I >take a trip to Bordeaux >or Burgundy, go to a >local dealer (in La Vienne), >or just go to a >supermarket (much less fun!). > >I would be grateful for any >thoughts on how to spend >my money ... and I >am confident there will be >many! > >Thanks, Which regions (please) are reporting a good year in 2003? As some of France reported a terrible year in 2002 (particularly in the Rhone and due to the floods) one must be careful. 2003 could well be a great year but on a personal basis I have not seen the early reports as the putting together of the wine does not take place until spring 2004. Juice from the different parcels are now kept separate until the blending takes place. So I am not sure who has said 2003 is a good year? Normally Rhone (2003) does not get shipped until late 2004 to the export markets as is the situation with Burgundy and Bordeaux. You may be suprised to note that the French do not buy in the main en primeur................we do in the UK. Its almost an exclusive club. May advice (only on the Rhone) is to go for a drive there stay a week end and buy 1990, 1994 1995 1998 1999 and to a lesser degree 2000 and 2001. I know very little of Burgundy or other regions........my absolute love and as I am putting this piece together is with a glass of Rhone from just across the river from Avignon. I am embarrassed at the cost (not very high indeed) rdgs