Bicycling through the Loire

Jun 25, 12 Bicycling through the Loire

Posted by in Food and Wine, France, Lifestyle, Travel

I tend to go on a fair amount of press trips as a wineblogger and they are all fantastic. I mean who wouldn’t enjoy the chance to visit the winemakers in their own milieu, tasting wines that quite possibly have been resting in the cellars for years or wines that never even leave the estate but are saved for special visitors....

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How do you say “cheers” in the Loire? A cab franc to taste…

Cheers! Salut! Salud! Tchin tchin! and now you can add… Trinch!   I came across  Trinch! the other day. What are it’s origins you might be asking? Well, since you asked, the origins of the word come from Old French,  “trinquer”, or “toast” in English, which was corrupted into… tchin, tchin....

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