4/9 I had a meeting for new products and a lot of bottles of wine tasting at the office of Tortoise Creek with Mr.Alain Grignon, Managing Director, and Mr.Xavier Roger, winemaker.

I was sure that the 2003 vintage of Tortoise Creek was Outstanding ! I thought 2001 was Great, 2002 was Good and 2003 was Outstanding.

We decided that we are going to import single variety of Merlot and Chardonnay Tortoise Creek from 2003 vintage. We are going to use not cork but screw caps for new products.

After the meeting, we had a lunch at a nice restaurant in Carcassonne.

I had Oysters

and Magrets de Canard roasted by old grape bough

with Corbieres Rose.

They were very good ! I found a lot of very nice Rose wines in this trip. I saw Rose was very popular in Mediterranean. So I am going to buy some of Rose wine, please expect them. Then I went to Domaines Montariol Degroote, owned and operated Sirroco in Tunisie and Chateau Sarati in Roumanie, in Carcassonne. I was welcomed by Mr.Pierre Degroote, owner, and Mr.Gaetan Bigo, export director.

We had a lot of bottles of tasting again. Unfortunately, the too much tasting made me lose my taste.

Then we drove around Corbieres, Minervois, Saint-Chinian and Coteaux du Languedoc. I felt the real distance and the figure of Languedoc. At last today, I took a train from Bezier and arrived in Barcelona at midnight. I was very tired indeed.