This chateau makes wine for Old World claret drinkers rather than for the powerful New World wine critic, Robert Parker. |
Last year, he put his chateau up for sale, complete with the 26-car underground air-conditioned garage. |
Panels of carved boiserie with original oval paintings were salvaged from a French chateau and reassembled in a Texas house. |
Tours of the chateau are normally in French, but English language tours are available some mornings. |
Two weeks ago I was staying in a semi-derelict chateau in France, where only 20 out of 197 rooms are lived in. |
She returns to the chateau outside Lyon and learns to communicate through sign language. |