Among the best are:

· Early September: Cassis (Provence) grape harvest festival Langon (Bordeaux) wine fair Meursault (Cote d'Or) Banee et Trinquee de Meursault St-Peray (Central Rhone) wine market Wolxheim (Alsace) Fete du Riesling.

· First Saturday: Mont-Brouilly (Beaujolais) wine festival.

· First Sunday: Arbois (Jura) Fete du Bijou Ribeauville (Alsace) Fetes des Menetriers.

· Second Saturday: Millery (Lyonnais/Beaujolais) Journee du Vin des Coteaux Lyonnais.

· Second weekend : Bar sur Aube (Aube) wine fair.

· Second or third weekend: Chace and Varrains (Anjou) Fete du Champigny.

· Last weekend: Dahlenheim (Alsace) wine festival Wuenheim (Alsace) wine festival.

Ken Brewer