Alfonz does wine tours and tastings. Here is where to look for information on them
L’Oulibo in Bize Minervois is a 15 minute drive from Capestang, and is an active olive farm, mill and cooperative. Here you will find the unique Lucques and Picholine olive varieties as well as others, to try and buy. Offering tours and products to the region for over 70 years, this is a must…
Alfonz dreamed up a business, got the licensing together in a foreign language, bought the nine passenger Mercedes Van and created the business South Westy Tours back in 2012. When my friend Sherrin visited us from Canada, we were inspired to do a trial run of some highlights from the tour. Six of us got…
Capestang needs people to stay longer! I never understood why someone would come here for one day when trying to hit as many places as possible. Capestang has so much to offer. #1 Collegiale Saint Stephen’s Saint Stephen’s Church of Capestang is located in the beautiful Languedoc-Roussillon region of France, and was designed as a…
In the days when my friend Anne was a child living in Capestang, she would be playing in her grandmother’s garden near the canal when she would hear the long repeated horn of a canal barge. This signaled the locals to stop what they were doing and run to the stone bridge, where many neighbours who also heard the…
Alfonz scouted the area looking for wineries for our Capestang wine tour. Daily, he jumped on his BMW motorbike, now a well known fixture throughout our village and searched for the ideal places to show tourists. Criteria was being close to the Canal du Midi offering Capestang’s visitors an option to visit Chateaus during…
Francois & Carole Gauffre own La Compagnie Des Fromagers, the specialty cheese shop where they hand select each product from the best producers throughout France. In the direction of Beziers after Montady is a roundabout. Take your third exit and turn into the industrial block, and at the end you will see three wooden cut outs;…
Wine is to France, as pasta is to Italy, as paprika is to Hungary, and as hockey is to Canada. Everyone drinks wine. In France, I am reminded at every meal out, it is cheaper than water, as I pay for 2.40€ perrier and my husband’s 2.00€ rosé. The Harvest in the Languedoc region of…