After a two hour delay my flight landed in time for me to catch my train to Avignon where it is very cold and unbelievably windy.  Bill picked me up at the train station and we went directly to our first winery  - a dissapointing adventure as they will not export to us.  From there we went to the little town of Chateauneuf du Pape and the Cave du Verger des Papes.  Here we found some success meeting Jean Baptiste and tasting some excellent wines.  We tasted two fantqstic sweet white wines - one of which will be in this years Christmas case - and two reds that are definatly in the running for the upcoming shipment.  We found that there are 160 wineries here and 120 export to the US.  We are looking for wines that are not currently being exported to the States so our task is a little more difficult here.

Today we are off to Gigandas with a friend of Bills who lives here and has offered to show us around.  we are on the quest.  Check back tomorrow and I will keep you updated.

Santé
Bob