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00:00the era playground of the rich and famous and one of the world's great dream
00:05destinations this is paradise and by taking a simple rail trip of just over
00:10100 miles from end to end you can see all its sun-drenched glories and that's
00:16what I'm doing Wow it's luxury beyond all measure and I got the best seat in
00:23the house as well as the rather nice sea sand and sun I want to explore the
00:28region's rich past we're sitting pretty much in the exact spot and vibrant
00:34present what a way to toast a new friendship I'll discover the famous
00:38characters that made the Riviera glitter you could say that they invented the
00:44Cotezio in the summertime and I'll visit the places and meet the people that keep
00:48it shimmering today oh I love this what's not to like about my great Riviera rail
00:54trip
01:05look at that Massey the oldest city in France and the very beginning of the French
01:12Riviera is shimmering coastline that goes all the way from Marseille in the west to
01:16Montau at the Italian border and I'm gonna do all of it I mean you know by train
01:22them I'm not gonna walk the whole way is west to be honest too far
01:28but first I have to conquer the station's mighty staircase it's an art
01:32deco feast and with a hundred and four steps it'll be enough exercise for the
01:37whole journey
01:41that grand staircase which connects the city with the train station is decorated with
01:45glorious statues this one says le soleil et la mer the sun and the sea and for
01:51generations that is why people have come to the Riviera but there is also a
01:55bucket loads of history and art and literature not to mention incredible
01:59food and wine I mean it's gonna be hell
02:05with more than 300 days of sunshine a year and skies as blue as the sea the
02:11Riviera was a ribbon of sleepy fishing villages until the English upper classes
02:15started coming here in search of a cure-all climate in the 1700s the arrival
02:21of the train from Paris in the 19th century transformed the region into the
02:25glamorous holiday destination we know today since then generations of artists and
02:32freethinkers from all over the world have flocked to this slice of paradise as a
02:37writer myself I can't wait to follow in their footsteps there's my train 10 36 I'm
02:45off I love this it says don't forget me but I mean if you had a case that ties
02:54how it I've only got this but you'd be amazed how much I can get in here it's
02:59fabulous
03:02and the trains actually on time Wow double-decker the French don't mess
03:11around
03:16sit we're off
03:27I didn't bring a lot of things because I've got a theory that France has got
03:30shops I mean prove me wrong but that's my theory from Marseille the line goes all the
03:38way to Ventimiglia in Italy and it stops in so many legendary towns Cannes Nice Monaco
03:45Montau and I'm gonna visit them all
03:56I love everything about train travel it just seems to be from another era I like
04:02checking the timetable I like having an empty seat in case I might make a friend I
04:06like the sound of it the rumble although of course there was a time when it was thought dangerous for
04:12women to take the train it was a wonderful article in the New England Medical Journal in 1870 in which
04:17the doctor advised against women enjoying the vibrations of a train because it might cause uterine
04:23dislocation I mean I'm willing to take the risk it's fine
04:29and so with a great sense of jeopardy I'm approaching my first stop the seaside town of
04:35Saneret-sur-Mer only 45 minutes away from Marseille and that's the 105th step of the day
04:49with its pastel facades and picture-perfect port Saneret-sur-Mer harks back to that time when the
04:58Riviera was more about fishing than tourism the sun is shining the pace is a gentle dawdle and I love it
05:05all right I feel a new novel coming on let's check out the view
05:23I mean sometimes you have a thought in your head what the view is going to be like this is better this
05:32is this is paradise hello I'm a writer thank you writing very important work very busy very busy
05:44writing in case anybody was impressed oh I could sit at the desk and write that would be good I could
05:52pretend I'm writing here I want to live here now
06:00what makes Saneret's harbour view so special is the fleet of traditional pointy boats or pointy ones if you're feeling
06:07literal with their bright colours and wooden bows they're a glimpse of life here before the invasion of the rich and famous
06:13since I love sailing and it would be rude not to approach the Riviera by sea the point is association of
06:20Saneret have offered to take me for a spin how could I say no
06:25cherry hello sandy oh bonjour how nice to meet you nice to meet you too I'm so excited so is this is the
06:35boat that we're going on absolutely how about is tranquillou so cool that's us we will be cool okay yes okay this is
06:43great day with sunny days and so on so how lucky are we perfect to uh perfect to sail okay tell me how to get on board yes I will welcome you on board okay okay we're good
06:54good and off we go
07:00you have an association don't you of the boats yes yeah how many boats the association we have 100
07:06boats around 100 boats and 200 people in this association wow we have to maintain the boat each
07:16year so this is wood all uh all the uh boats so between uh I would say 50 to 100 years our oldest boat is
07:27120 years wow it could be destroyed with the time right if you don't look after yes if you don't take care
07:34yeah and they're all different bright colors the boats yes is that just the choice of the owner
07:40exactly the same feelings that if you have an old car and you have to take care this is same same feeling
07:47yes thanks to all the great work from the pointu association sanary proudly boasts the biggest collection of
07:54pointus in the riviera it must be important for the tourists I think to the way the town looks yeah yeah
08:03this is still a small place yes like uh I would say uh fishermen village yeah it still has a feeling
08:13about it yeah yeah yeah well I am never happier than when I'm at sea yeah because I'm from Denmark I am a
08:20Viking I like the boats I think the boats are very personally also so feel good yeah yeah
08:25now I have a burning question to ask Jerry I have a big favor yeah could I have a go at steering you
08:34you want to please yeah okay yes my pleasure is it all right my pleasure okay
08:45okay I love this this is so wonderful my pleasure oh I love our pleasure I can't believe a Frenchman is
08:54trusting a Viking with their boat oh this is magnificent actually I'm not quite ready to head
09:12home just yet especially as the dramatic craggy coastline begins to unravel before our eyes
09:19it's a visual feast and a powerful reminder that the Riviera's roots lie in the sea and those fishing
09:29traditions
09:32that heritage still lingers in the region's most iconic dish the bouillabaisse
09:37this is this is the soup where you are cooking the fish and uh with potatoes and uh and garlic and garlic
09:47french yeah yeah yeah yeah has to have garlic in it yeah yeah so but it's very good taste and where in
09:55town would I get the best bouillabaisse the best and uh uh I would say with a good reputation yes is hotel
10:02de la tour well that's handy that's my hotel it makes tonight's choice for dinner nice and easy
10:13it's the first time yes the first time yes very excited yes
10:21both ah so the bin yes okay oh isn't that lovely
10:32loveless I mean I'm a spiller this is perfect
10:38the bouillabaisse began as a poor man's dish the fishermen of marseilles using bony fish that nobody
10:44else wanted and what sets the bouillabaisse apart from other fish stews is that it's served in two parts
10:57first you get a rich saffron infused broth served with garlicky bread and some fish
11:03followed by a second plate of potatoes followed by a second plate of potatoes and more fish
11:15that is incredible that is oh my
11:33i'm in the charming port of salary sur mer the first stop on my riviera adventure salary may look
11:47like a tranquil seaside town but back in the 1930s it was the beating heart of european intellectual life
11:55it all began with british author aldous huxley who moved here in 1930 and wrote what became his most
12:02famous novel brave new world before long some of the greatest german writers followed including
12:09thomas mann and battle brecht i'm told a few of them even stayed at my hotel to find out more about
12:16sanary's fascinating literary past i'm meeting up with ina barato a german-born local guide
12:22ina hello sandy i'm sandy shall we do french
12:29and welcome to sanary oh that's so kind i'm so excited to be here so i want to know all about the
12:35writers that came here why did they come who came i mean i'm i couldn't i want to know everything and
12:41now you can perhaps you're already you start to understand a little bit because when you see this
12:47lovely day when you see the blue sky the sunshine then you can imagine that those people when they
12:54have had problems in germany yeah it was from 1933 when hitler took the power certain writers the one
13:04what was against hitler they have had to leave germany because even some of them lost their nationality
13:13wow all their goods all their money has been blocked their houses has been confiscated so i
13:21understand why they left but why here why this why sanary there's one important reason sanary was not
13:28expensive you see now look all of the yachts in this nobody changed today it's not anymore the same
13:35and so sanary became the capital of german literature it was a kind of must to come to the hotel to give you
13:48an example bertolt brecht famous the strip in the opera yeah absolutely and bertolt brecht for instance he
13:57came from 1933 several times he came with his mistress yeah i mean officially he was his collaborator
14:09she was a young communist because brecht was a communist and uh they stood a couple of weeks in
14:15the hotel yeah and during this time he was writing the opera three penny opera you know this yes
14:23during his stay here while enjoying the company of said mistress brecht wrote to his wife one gets
14:31bored on the mediterranean i don't know how he had time so i'm trying to imagine this life right i'm
14:38trying to imagine there's all these writers and so on what are they they must be sitting in the cafes
14:42and drinking and enjoying their lives absolutely if not together hello for instance you have the cafes on
14:47the other side there yeah it was called shape and is this this right here it's the one what we have
14:55just on the other side i want to imagine that i'm a writer here and you're gonna ask me in german for
15:01a drink please yes so we say just let's do it okay let's do it so let's pretend we're german intellectuals
15:12and sit for a drink or if i get to choose it'll always be an ice cream i'm trying to think if i was
15:19in exile yeah with other people yeah i would want to come to a cafe i think you'd seem like a way of
15:26believing that life continues yeah to go in the cafe was as well the opportunity to talk with other
15:35writers they made a circle of you say literature yeah circle of literature but only the elite came
15:45right okay and of course with elitism comes rivalry behind the cheerful cafe scenes simmered intellectual
15:55tension aldous huxley wasn't thrilled by the influx of german writers in sanaret he reportedly found them
16:02arrogant and full of themselves but this of course did not inhibit the germans bertolbrecht he was
16:11singing satiric songs on goebbels and hitler he was playing on his guitar i'm listening to all these
16:20wonderful stories that you're telling me but i can't get over is we're sitting pretty much in the exact
16:25spot where they would have sat inventing stories so he's very famous bertolbrecht now but somebody sat in
16:32this cafe and went hey bertol give us a song i love that oh yes it was you could say they have
16:39had a life a little bit like ex exiled in paradise but those days of happy exile were short-lived
16:48in 1940 france fell under german occupation sanary was no longer a safe haven for the exiled writers
16:55who became persecuted by the collaborating french authorities french authority would deliver him to
17:03the nazis so to to auschwitz or somewhere yeah right okay some like thomas mann and bertolbrecht managed
17:11to escape to america but many other writers were arrested and deported to the death camps
17:17is that a history that the french have been able to confront about themselves they start now to confront
17:27it um very long time they didn't want to see or to hear anything on this but now as we have younger
17:39people they want to know surrounded by such beauty it's hard to imagine that this idyllic peaceful place
17:54once witnessed some of history's darkest chapters
18:00yet despite the scars left behind this town rose from the ashes and blossomed once again soon after the war
18:09it's time for me to say goodbye to sanary and its fascinating history and continue my journey
18:33only 15 minutes away by train heading back towards marseille is the seaside town of la siota
18:39and i've been told its station holds a rather fascinating claim to fame i'm going to be honest
18:46with you we have made a slight detour but it's 100 percent worth it because this is the exact spot of
18:52the birthplace of cinema in 1895 the lumiere brothers shot the arrival of a train along the platform it's a
18:59very short piece of footage but from here the whole of cinema explodes and france went on to become one of
19:05the greatest makers of film in the whole history of cinema while spending their summer in the family
19:13holiday home in la siota louis and august lumiere began filming scenes of daily life
19:20this footage of the train arriving in la siota was shown to the public in december 1895
19:26it was one of the first times moving images were shown in a theater and people were shocked some
19:33reportedly ran away from the large screen to celebrate this great heritage the train station
19:39at la siota has been turned into a mini museum there's the most wonderful quote up on the wall
19:45here by one of the lumiere brothers saying basically that he thought that moving pictures were always
19:49going to be a scientific curiosity but they didn't really have a future and there's great photographs
19:55of the early equipment look at this they would hand crank not just to shoot the thing but to show it
20:01they projected their films using this exact device in a local cinema called the eden and guess what
20:08it still exists today in the town center of la siota proudly claiming the title of the oldest cinema
20:15in the world but with skies like these it's not a day for the cinema and my train is arriving
20:23let's hop back on and make some movie magic of my own
20:31i'm traveling along the glorious french riviera and after some quality time in la siota and sanary
20:51sumer i'm approaching my next stop the city of hier nestled between the hills and the sea
20:57hier enjoys a front row seat to the mediterranean it was this prime location that lured in british
21:06aristocrats in the 18th century transforming the town into the riviera's very first resort
21:14hier is a tale of two cities a modern town with majestic palm-lined avenues
21:19and a medieval heart with winding lanes and charmingly crumbling facades it's idyllic and
21:26frankly i'm starting to question all my life choices look this is for rent right and in another life
21:34i rent this and i sit here and i write i become the mad old hag of yeah i mean i haven't got time but i
21:41love the idea guiding me around the city is american writer and riviera expert laney goodman
21:50danny oh i'm sandy i brought you ice cream thank you so much of course oh this is nice this is very
21:56nice i can't quite believe we're sitting in the shadow of a 12th century tower this town yeah is
22:03really properly old isn't it it is and i think that most people don't even realize all the history behind
22:09it it feels lived in well i would agree because i find it very laid back um i think a lot of people
22:17ignore that this is the coat azure a different coat azure laney's not the only american i know
22:24to appreciate the laid-back charms of a year new york-born writer edith wharton lived here between the
22:30two world wars and her house and gardens still exist well i have felt all my life that not enough
22:37people are in love with the american author edith wharton i am in love with her i have always wanted
22:43to see her garden are you going to show it to me yes absolutely do you know what this is one of
22:47the best days of my life let's take our ice cream brothers come on okay
22:51i'm so excited because edith wharton really important author to me but i'm always surprised
23:07how many people don't know her how do you introduce her to people well i would say that she's she's part
23:13of a media from new york old money that's sort of turn of the century having grown up in high society
23:22edith wharton became one of its sharpest critics in novels like the house of mirth and the age of
23:27innocence it took a director like martin scorsese to adapt the age of innocence one of her greatest
23:35novels for people to start understanding who she was then people went back and read the novel
23:41there are a lot of people who are trying now to adapt some of her stories so little by little
23:46like jane austen you know people are coming hollywood and rediscovering yes rediscovering her and reworking
23:52her because some of the themes i think will be around forever oh i feel the book still read is fresh
23:59exactly and modern uh and of course we mustn't forget first woman to win the pulitzer prize for fiction so
24:05let's go enjoy her garden shall we yes
24:10so
24:15fleeing an unhappy marriage and the strict confines of her social world edith moved to france in 1910
24:21and settled in paris then in 1919 at the age of 57 she discovered this hilltop haven
24:30the house of saint claire built into the walls of a medieval castle and she turned it into her winter
24:36retreat today her perched garden is a free public park
24:44wow it's high up it's very high
24:48both the views and the climb up here are breathtaking
24:52she must have been fit living up here she was and she even in her 60s and 70s she went tramping all
25:00around the gardens with her guests in fact she obliged them after lunch some people complained they
25:06couldn't have their nap and the garden's her creation as much as the books are her creation
25:09absolutely the money that she got for the pulitzer prize which was at the time considerable what did
25:15she do with it she poured it into her gardens oh it's here yeah it's right here she said i'm thrilled to
25:21the spine with her passion for gardening wharton threw herself into this horticultural adventure
25:27cultivating mediterranean plants that were entirely new to her she turned a tangled hillside wilderness
25:34into this glorious terraced garden imagine owning this that's unbelievable isn't it
25:42the house was a wreck when she found it is that right it was a ruin a ruin okay that's never good
25:46they don't put that on the particulars when you buy something it's a ruin um why here why did she
25:52settle here she saw the ruin and she fell in love with it she talked about being torn away shrieking
25:59from yeah sometimes when she had to go back to paris so she she really did love it and she loved the view
26:05oh i wish she was here we could have tea but maybe she do think maybe she wouldn't like us i don't know
26:13edith ended up spending all her winters in this house until her death in 1937
26:17writing entertaining in style and tending lovingly to her beloved garden
26:24a true slice of paradise which she captured beautifully in this poem
26:29in the marquis by edith wharton roofed in with creaking pines we lie and see the waters burn and whiten the
26:41wild seas race the racing sky the tossing landscape gloom and lighten here's to you edith
26:50the next stop on my riviera adventure is arguably the most famous holiday spot in the world
27:16the fabulous and ultra glamorous saint-tropé do i need jeans covered in sequence i'm discussing
27:25it with myself for the train nerds out there there is actually no train station in saint-tropé
27:34the nearest is in san rafael just under 25 miles away and like me you'll have to rely on the
27:40kindness of strangers to get here i'm told that if you want to see the real saint-tropé you have
27:48to get down to the beach early so i've come to the legendary pampelone beach a three mile stretch
27:54of white sands and turquoise water just south of saint-tropé's old town i've just arrived at
28:01pampelone beach i i mean i think strictly speaking i should be coming out of the water in some sexy
28:05way uh it was in 1956 that brigitte bardot uh made this beach famous in a film called and god
28:12created woman and it kind of started that whole tanned sexual revolution once hailed as the most
28:19beautiful woman in the world bardo put saint-tropé on the map transforming a sleepy fishing village
28:26into the beating heart of 1960s bohemian life i prefer saint-tropé for the beach for the young
28:33people and all the funny evenings we spend it was on this very beach that bikinis shrank tops vanished
28:41and a new era of sexual freedom began today with its exclusive beach clubs pampelone has become a
28:51playground for the rich and famous word has it that it's the perfect place for a bit of celebrity
28:57spotting let's see if i can see one or two it's a little bit early so we haven't got the maximum
29:05number of people living their best life but oh look at all that look at wow look at all that donkey look
29:14yep okay there are donkeys on the beach this is not quite the saint-tropé glamour i was expecting
29:22you know sometimes you see a big ass on the beach two let's go and investigate
29:47with hundreds of thousands of tourists visiting popolone every year keeping the beach clean is a
29:52challenge but the local council has come up with a genius and environmentally friendly solution
30:01every morning princess and justin roam the sands of popolone and help pick up litter left by holiday
30:07makers 30 000 items a day on average oh princess you do such a good job is friendly yes hi hello
30:22beautiful bye princess bye justin what a great idea huh donkeys and rubbish i mean what a great job you
30:31guys are doing saving the planet
30:37as much as i enjoy the company of donkeys the reason i'm in saint-tropé is to experience some of the glitz
30:43and glamour and my next date promises exactly that frederick mausch has written a book on epi plage
30:52one of the trendiest beach clubs on popolone and he's invited me for a private tour frederick
30:58hello hello okay so i can tell you this i've just been on the beach and i have so much sand in my shoe
31:05that i think i have taken part of the beach with me sorry but i'm so sorry to get undressed as soon
31:11as we meet i apologize don't need any shoes i just want to take them off then okay this is perfect
31:16here we go all right all right oh you do the same this is see we're friends already love it oh do the
31:22socks have to come off no i'm going to keep socks on there's a line for the british i think it's socks
31:28okay let's go in yep thank you sweetie frederick's parents used to own epiplage so he knows all
31:37its stories and secrets here's the oasis oh my i was not expecting that
31:45yeah that's refreshing isn't it it's like a movie oh my it looks like hollywood yeah but it's and
31:52that's so appropriate isn't it because the sunshine feels like california doesn't it totally and
31:56actually the constructions here are inspired by like the american-like construction from the 50s
32:02and was built actually in the 50s right so was i yeah oh late 50s yeah me too so as i feel right at
32:08home i think it's my it's my oh wow with its restaurants and nine bungalows tucked behind the
32:15sand dunes epiplage is the ultimate private club you can stay the night enjoy a leisurely lunch lounge by the
32:22pool or even all three perfect perfect perfect so you you grew up here yeah kind of i mean this was
32:36our like summer house so i was like one year old when i first came here yeah i mean i can't even
32:42imagine the life so when you're a boy do you get you get used to it you just think oh it's the pool it's
32:46the beach it's all you know well first of all it wasn't as like fancy as it is right now it was
32:51much more bohemian yeah actually here it was really like a center for like um music creativity like
32:58starting in the late 50s a lot of artists came here intellectuals like uh alan ginsberg for example was
33:04here um marlon brando uh there was like this melting pot of these like superstars uh then you had like people
33:12who were like a little bit more in the gray zone um uh painters um bourgeois bohème as we call them
33:19you know people who are not doing much you know i have to mention your book uh bridget bardo is that
33:26here on the beach it's actually right here where we're sitting exactly here this place and bridget
33:31bardo in the middle which everybody knows on the right if you're from the uk maybe you you don't know
33:36johnny holliday which is like the french superstar absolutely people came here to be forgotten like so you
33:41had like the billionaire talking to the worker or the agricultural i always think there's something
33:47about uh when you come to the beach and people strip off their shoes it sort of levels people out
33:52in this place i can tell you in the 70s people were not just taking off their shoes okay right but
33:57it was a different time yeah no i and you know that's fine too i think that sounds good
34:04maybe i would have been fine with my socks off after all and does it feel weird to be back now
34:09because you've not been here for a while actually um it has changed a lot um which is fine you know
34:15i think it's more in line with today you know the high-end luxury the the expectation of the market
34:22right now is very different it has kept it's like robinson crusoe spirit which i like you know and
34:29they've stayed faithful like to the constructions it feels uh very relaxed to me at the moment i was
34:36expecting many more people but we're not in the high season i mean the high season the real high
34:41season where you don't want to be here it's very short it's basically between uh the 14th of july
34:47which is the french national day till the 30th of august then it's absolutely crazy you can't really
34:52drive around move around but beyond that it's really nice all year long yeah because paris is closed in
34:59august completely france is closed i think that's a very sensible thing that we should all do i like
35:06that if only that was an option for me but alas i'll have to keep exploring this fabulous town
35:13and seeing what other delights modern-day saint-tropez has in store
35:28i'm in glitzy saint-tropez a name that's synonymous with the french riviera after receiving the vip
35:35treatment on pompelome beach i've made my way to the bustling old town where the harbor is packed with
35:41jaw-dropping yachts judging by the crowds watching the super yachts has become a tourist attraction in
35:48its own right but i have a more pressing priority i never ever take for granted that i can travel and
35:55i love it and i know how privileged i am but i miss my children uh and now i have four grandchildren
36:02so the way i get over that is i find them a postcard that i think will amuse
36:11okay uh wow okay that's that is this one not for the grandchildren this is definitely not uh
36:21i mean that's very annoying because they've they've used my picture in the that's very
36:24irritating that that one is annoying um something i think something less naughty oh here we go oh
36:32in danish uh we say normal mother mother and all of these are from
36:43the port's a little too busy for my liking so i'm heading deeper into the old town
36:48in search of a quiet corner to write my postcards but first i need a little pick-me-up
37:05this shop is dedicated to the local delicacy the tropezienne tart it's a halved brioche generously
37:13filled with a mix of thick buttercream and topped with pearl sugar just going to put that diet on hold
37:19for today here is la tarte tropezienne i mean it looks like a mini burger
37:27i mean it's a lot of sugar content that that wow okay i maybe eat that slowly right watch this one
37:48uh there we go more more is working
37:58so hard and having a nightmare time i don't want them to think it's too easy
38:08just a short stroll from the hustle of the port this laid-back square place delice feels
38:14quintessentially french the kind of place that makes you want to try a bit of parley francais
38:19and strike up a conversation with the locals oh look uh est-ce que je dis bonjour
38:28oh we know you we're we're english oh fine that was my best friend how do you know me from from qi
38:37qi i'm so and richard richard oh oh this sounds very silly but it sounds nice to be able to just
38:45speak fluent uh what are you doing here obviously on holiday yes we're on holiday we brought our caravan
38:51where from down front we live in yorkshire near bradford note to self not everyone you meet on
38:57holiday is a local so would you like a qi fact about sainte papay yes please uh do you know why it's called
39:04sainte papay no okay so i love this this is one of my favorite stories uh so there was a knight um
39:11about 2000 years ago in the time of nero okay and he converted to christianity and nero did not think
39:16this was a good idea so he beheaded him which is not nice and then people started to worship the body
39:22of the knight without his head on so they put the knight without his head in a rotting boat with a dog
39:27and a rooster and set it out to sea okay and this guy is sink topic and he landed on the coast just
39:35here and people thought it was a sign and so they named it after him and the dog and the rooster
39:40pushed off and each founded their own village nearby which i don't think is kind to just leave the
39:45beheaded yeah right well we've learned something not quite as romantic as the no place itself then
39:52it's a good qi story though it is excellent you like that one yeah i do yeah the joy of holidays
39:58is that they're made of lovely encounters like this
40:03now i don't want to stereotype but these men over here surely can only be french
40:07the origin of boule or petanque dates back to ancient greece but the current version of the game
40:17was invented in the early 20th century in la siota yes the very same town where cinema was born
40:26and of course the lumiere brothers filmed it
40:28and as it turns out i'm not too bad at it
40:58oh he's not as good as me
41:17after that extremely energetic workout i need a drink so i'm heading for the hills above saint
41:22tropez in search of refreshment this region is renowned for its rosé wine and i can't think of
41:29a better way of wrapping up my time in saint tropez than visiting a vineyard
41:36so i'm meeting winemaker gwendoline berger for a tour and tasting
41:43this is going to seem incredible to you but i don't think i've ever seen grapes growing
41:48in real life on television yes really so show me show me how many would you have on a plant like
41:53so there is a grapes yeah so we can count eight bunches of grapes okay absolutely now it's falling
42:00over yes it's falling over because uh for the moment there is no uh uh palisage uh so it's just a
42:09stick and a line in in steel yes so what we can do for to take them straight you can just dry them
42:18i show you in the little piece okay you turn like that okay but then and wind it around you can just
42:26take these two piece and uh and wind them around and run them around oh so they look after each other
42:33i show you yes and then it's your turn okay oh no okay honestly i think i'm working too hard on this trip
42:39so tell me about uh how you look after it tell me about the soil and what you do to look after it
42:47i am working since the beginning in a organic way and i am not using pesticide and no nothing only
42:57infusion right infusion to get the stronger the vines that works in two years the plants say just
43:06thank you yeah they look so healthy gwendoline also follows the principles of biodynamic farming
43:14which takes a holistic view of the vineyard she treats it as a living ecosystem which gives it a
43:20beautiful wild look when did you first decide i want to make wine do you remember how old you were
43:29my first memory is when i was 12 we just moved from another country to the south of france with
43:35my parents and i asked them if i could make the harvest and they said okay and so i did it and
43:42uh end of october of september when they were some uh some grapes still uh at the end i just took it
43:51i press it and i put it that in in the big bottle five liters and without knowing i was doing my first
43:57blanc de noir because that was grenache noir then i make a white wine so that was my first blanc de noir
44:04wow 12 years old yes this magnificent view yes do you ever get tired of it no no no not yet no
44:12i don't think no i will never no um but you can feel the breeze from the sea does it make a difference
44:18that makes a difference because the wind which is coming from the sea is bringing freshness is bringing
44:24in salt salt yes okay and this if you will you will find that uh in in your mouth when you will when you
44:32will taste later taste it shall we go and try the wine okay with pleasure i loved walking here this is
44:40look at these so pretty
44:45gwendoline shares her passion with her husband who has joined her in this wonderful winemaking adventure
44:54ah here is mine is your husband here is yes there is john jacques let me introduce you
45:01to john jacques how do you do i'm sandy i'm fine good to meet you nice to meet you thank you oh no
45:06no please please oh okay thank you uh so what is the name of the wine the name is le rosé because
45:13actually we only have one rosé included is the name of the vineyard claude b is the name of the
45:19vineyard why we why why because jean-jacques his last name is branger and my last name is berger okay so
45:28then we decided to name it claude b as we start together i like that's uh okay that's our aventure
45:43oh my goodness it's very fresh it's totally natural there is no sulfate in
45:48it's delicious thank you it's so good it's become to be pink oh congratulations it's a dream we make a
45:59dream it's fantastic and it stays with you it's got beautiful flavor what a way to toast a new friendship
46:07to the sea to the sea to the sea what would you say in france
46:11uh
46:24and sandy continues her journey on to can next saturday at five past eight looking for ultra
46:38realistic textures almost good enough to eat this week new game of wool britain's best knitter continues
46:44tomorrow night it's eight next mulled cider tis the season after all devon and cornwall at christmas
46:50sea is on the way
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