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Klur dans le Gault et Millau 2011
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Une belle palette de vins d'Alsace retenus dans le dernier GaultMillau dont le Gentil et le Voyou de Katz, notés 13. "Voici un "gentil" très complexe et racé. On apprécie sa définition élégante, tout comme sa fraîcheur de bouche. A savourer sur la jeunesse de son expression." et "C'est un voyou, certes, mais aimable et distingué. Avec plus de vivacité que le "gentil", il invite à découvrir un ballet de notes de fruits blancs, tout comme une belle fraîcheur."D'autres vins ont été notés 14 et plus, lire la suite
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Les DNA titrent sur une page: "hospitalité biodynamique". Il y est question de bioconstruction, de viticulture biodynamique et d'écotourisme au Vignoble Klur à Katzenthal qui propose aux visiteurs des ateliers du vin, de découverte, de dégustation et des séjours bien être. L'idée étant d'inciter les alsaciens à redécouvrir leur région. D'ailleurs un circuit pédestre autour du village est proposé par la journaliste Simone Wehrung et pour ceux qui auraient peur de se perdre ils peuvent passer à cave nous leur indiquerons le chemin. Les "ateliers à la carte" de Clarisse Zenner ont particulièrement retenus l'attention puisque le lien entre produit du terroir, vin et savoir-faire mais de façon très originale est une manière sympathique de replonger dans ses racines. On vous attend
Clarisse Zenner et ses "potions"
tourisme durable à Katzenthal
Le sentier au départ du village, par le grand cru Sommerberg, vous passez à coté de la cave, puis au dessus le Niedermorschwihr, le rocher du Corbeau, le Galtz, retour par le grand cru Wineck Schlossberg et le chateau fort du Wineck
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Dans tout amateur de vin, il y a donc un buveur d'eau qui s'ignore!" "Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized." Andre Simon Vins Blancs Gentil de Katz2007 -Organic Domaine Klur, Alsace • Pinot Gris2005 -Organic Vieilles Vignes, Klur Alsace •
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Il n'y eut pas toujours que des vins de cépages en Alsace...il fut un temps où l'on assemblait différents raisins pour en faire des Zwicker, Edelzwicker, Gentil. Ce dernier correspondait au dernier passage dans les vignes, à un moment où les cépages nobles (cliquez sur suite)
During this sommer the Blue House in Riquewihr is booked for short stays for family come together. Perfect location if you don't want to drive too far, stay next to an airport or train connexion, take grand'ma, grand'pa, children, grand'children and share this large holiday house together. All facilities nearby for different generations and a lot to see and visit ! "Thanks a lot for this stay at the Maison Bleue, ist was wonderfull, the house is very beautifull and perfect for 16 people. Thanks for the welcome gift, we also took a few bottles in the wine cellar and take some pinot noir home" wrote the Wiczinski Family this morning.
During this time the Family Luthi from Switzerland stayed at the pond house and appreciate the nature and the quietness of this place. Thanks for this picture ! "we had the most peacefull holidays of our life ! quietness and climate where perfect, hikking and dreaming, our dogs loved also a lot. Perhaps you should tell to your visitors that the 2 houses are not really independant, we didn't know about it. The stay was wonderfull and we certainly will come back to this region another time".
You are right, the houses are built "back to back" but the private outdoors are separate and Chez Marie is only occupied in july and august. Thanks for this and see you soon.
At the back of the valley next to the village we have saules trees longing the stream. We use the dried and crushed bark, about 50 grammes of bark infused for 20 minutes in 5 litres of very hot water. Diluted at the 10th then added (sometimes mixed with nettles) in the pulverising recipient sometimes with copper.
This mixture is used in the prevention of mildew. It should be harvested in the spring before the leaves come out. It has been kown for ages due to its saliciyclic acid (which is the base of aspirin).
A very hot afternoon for this walk from the wine estate in the village to the Wineck Schlossberg Grand Cru hill... Gérard Verret from Jardin Gourmand the specialist of wild plants and their transformation into tastefull dishes, gave a lot of informations about wild plants to the group. It was not easy to find some "eatable" plants in this summer begining because a few plants where still to old and not tasty at all. Wild carotts, plantain and this very strange 'Eglantier des Vignes" discovered by Gérard....read more.
Stay at Klur wine-estate in Katzenthal and enjoy the small garden with many herbs and spices, which is especially created for you, savory, mint, basilic, willow, laurel, sage, and many others... Here, the ancient roses have overrunned the parsley and the thyme... but perhaps will they soon be on your table ? In a vase or perfuming the fresh water you just have brought from our Grander fountain ? We also have planned to build a square vegetable garden next year with the help of Marie Nageleisen (she has written a very interesting book), we will talk about it later....
The topo-guides are here !! Stay at Klur wine-estate and discover the area on foot or on bicycle with the help of our topo-guides : "enjoy the landscapes" , and this stork will go with you through the hills and the vignes and will give you the secrets about:
- the grands crus and the winegrower know-how
- the stones and mens from the nearly villages
- the terroirs: why are the vignes here and not there ?
- the village names in thal, wihr and heim , and their stories...
These round tours (10, 20 or 30 km) permit to you to discover a part of the alsacian vineyard in a convivial way. 3 days stay including the accomodation, a basket with organic products from local farmers, the bicycles, the topoguide, the wellness rom and also a wine-tasting of alsacian wines. Book on-line here.
Early in the morning, it is a leave day in the sowing calendar (calendrier des semis),the 501 biodynamic preparation was ready to be sprayed on the foliage of the half of our parcels, 4 grammes of silicium in 35 litres of rain water per hectare, dynamised for one hour, spray for 5 to 8 hours. The soil work goes on with the plow or the hand cultivator, the vegetation is doing well and quickly. The roof of the cellar is mauve this month: chive flowers, thyme, sage, and many new flowers... as if they had passed the word around for the colour...We have done the first bottling 15 days ago, a fruit day, soft filtering on diatom (grinded shellfish).
Here, you can try the organic mattress and especially the ergonomic garden bench! Klur wine-estate has just acquired this armchair to be relaxed, made in wood from local forests and which doesn't need to be treated. You can sit on it alone, with one or two personn and look at the sky, at the the top of the trees...Placed in our birds garden, next to the swing and to the hammock, you will enjoy it during your stay, dayly or nightly, and you won't forget your journey in Alsace. And why not try to make one yourself ? Come and test it!
Last week, 8 "gourmet" were reunited in order to learn to cook the famous alsacian kougelhopf with Clarisse Zenner!! But not any how: at first, everything was organic: yeast, flour, butter... and it was a good occasion to talk about the rising dough, the best temperature, place, day, like the wine fermentation... it was baked in an ancient mould which was used many of times before, and then, Clarisse has brought different unusual ingredients which were used or not, it depended of the desire of each one, chutney have also be baked while the dough was rised, also a wine -tasting...click on more.
After a Saint-Médard wine-tasting which combines our wines and the terroirs expression, it's difficult to take the wheel...but we have our grape-picker room with the small courtyard which is always available for our guests. The discover of organic wines was been completed with organic products from farmers from the Kaysersberg valley. This family from Ludwigsburg, and his friends, in Alsace for a few days, have enjoyed it, and a taxi has taken them back to their hotel. Think of it for your next jaunt:"Uns und unseren Freunden hat es super gut gefallen bei Ihnen. Die Weinprobe mit wirklich toll, sehr guten Weinen in lockerer Atmosphäre war einfach perfekt. Der gemütliche Garten und das tolle Wetter haben ebenso dazu beigetragen. Wir acht hatten wirklich sehr viel Spaß! Bitte weiter so!!! Beste Grüße auch an Clarisse aus. Ihr Buffet war sehr lecker und wir hatten einen gemütlichen Abend! Viele Grüße aus Ludwigsburg nach Katzenthal"
Best place to stay in Alsace ? the travellers are deciding. Some of you give us notes on Trip Advisor, thanks for this feed back and for you suggestions, hope to see you back soon
It's at Klur on the 24th of April 2010 ! Come and share with us this meeting around Wine and Words on the theme of the biodiversity. You can come for a while or all along the day, the entrance is free but you have to reserve for the lunch before the 20th of April. Besides the animations at set time, you will find: a reading lounge, a books dedication by the authors, wine-books exchange: you come with yours and you change them with others.... What else to spread ideas... Click on more to get the planning.
We'd like to wish you a happy Easter and invite you to enjoy the first days of spring to taste all this tasty herbs which you can find in the nature now and which clean your organism at the end of this winter.Think of nettle, sorrel, dandelion, bear's garlic soon, light herb teas, wood energy.
Yesterday, we were pleased to welcome the family Schwab, gathered at the Blue House with parents, grantparents, for a a wine tasting, followed with an organic buffet, made by Clarisse Zenner des Oiseaux Rares. If you feel lilke tasting it, or if you are organizing a journey at Klur, click on "More"
The german review Weinwelt has tasted and dedicated the "best Alsace wines" in the april-May 2010 edition, "they are back". A nice recommandation for the aera, its diversity, its gastronomy and its wineyards. "God bless Alsace". Concerning the wines, the organic one were honoured but also the wine grower work and the terroir: "Riesling, pinot blanc, pinot gris, couldn't we think they are wine like in Germany? Here is the difference. The alsatian wines from this variety of grappe are inimitable and it's also true for the organic label, they are all individualist.
The Klur wine-estate has presented a crémant without sulfite and also a gewurztraminer to the wine-tasting. They get the following marks: "Gewurztraminer Klur 2007. A gewurztraminer doesnt' have to be full and sweet, a nose of honey, lemon, white flowers and the spices wake up, fresh and original. Mark 86. The crémant without sulfite, best mark of its category (89): a surprising champagne nose, with brioche, apple taste, an elegant fruit, fresh like a green apple, lemon taste, mineral and very strong".
A group of winegrowers and friends of winegrowers from Switzerland, next to the lake of Zurich, went on a trip in Alsace. They could taste the flavours and the talent of Clarisse Zenner, les Oiseaux Rares. Share this moment with photos and commentaries... click on "More"...
With our expert Hélène Burtscher-Fleck from l'atelier K'art'on, many agile hands have made founitures from cardboard to recycle. It was on saturday and sunday, they could choose between 3 models. Of course, they have also enjoyed a visit of the wine-cellar, a few glasses of wine around the wood stove, and exchanges about organic culture and biodynamie. Each participant has taken away its own creation. Next dates : on April, the 10th and 11th, and the 13th and 14th, on May, the 8th and 9th.
There are still a few availibities, don't delay!!
A few nice tasting-notes to greet the last-born from Klur Clément wine-estate : a crémant without added sulfite "Yellow gold. Open nose conjuring up jammy fruits and sweet pastry. Palate with a lively structure. A very honest crémant". The Guide Gilbert et Gaillard notes it 84 (85 for the traditional crémant, which is "light gold. Fairly ripe and fruity nose. Freshness, fruity finish of quite substantial lengh. A wine for sharing over a buffet".
In the Weinwelt (german wine magazine), it's one of the 1st alsatian crémants, with a note of 89. "Un nez surprenant, comme un Champagne, brioche, pomme, un fruit élégant, frais comme une pomme verte, citroné, minéral et très intense".
Organicaly perfect and with refinement!.... We are touched."Ecologiquement parfait avec une point de raffinement" dixit the Maison Ecologique.( french magazine) "D'un coup de baguette magique à partir d'un existant peu glorieux, avec une pointe d'huile de coude, un esprit créatif sans limites, une volonté écologique ferme et sans concessions, le lieu est transfomé en une halte incontournable pour toute personne ayant un projet d'écoconstruction tant il est inspirant(...). Le clou de la visite, la cave située de l'autre coté de la courette. Ronde et unique en son genre elle abrite des futs de chêne qui semblent n'attendre que vous. (...)Francine et Clément ont placé la barre très haut, difficile de faire écologiquement mieux, à tout point de vue. Assurément l'une des meilleures adresses pour un véritable séjour écologique en Alsace".
. We won't tell you more but we recommend you to take a subscrition at La Maison Ecologique, bible of ecological construction, and which inspires us a lot , especially the Bol d'Air page, which gives you ideas for ecological holidays.Also have a look on ouvrages d'Yvan Saint Jours about ecological construction. You can also order other books about this theme on line at SOS Culture .
The review Revue VITI from december 2009 consacres a report on wine cellar eco-conception and on wine holiday, and cites Klur wine-estate in Katzenthal as an example: " family organic wine estate, Klur has celebrated his 10th year of life on September 2009, the 4th, and proposes today many kind of worshops: discovery, cooking, wine-tasting initiation... It's an accasion to spend a good time by discovering family wine and substainable tourism (...) This workshops are organised all allong the year for 1, 2 or more people, friends, family or company. You can choose: journey on a special theme, workshop in one day or visit and wine-tasting with professionnals who share the same philosophy as the wine grower." (...). The holiday apartments and the wine cellar are built and maintained with organic products, the visit and the workshops are made in substainable developpment spirit (wine cardboard recycling to make some furnitures, picking of wild plants in organic wines and cooking workshops, also biciycle and hiking guide to walk in the area softly for the guests.
An exclusif wine-tasting of the 2007 Riesling, vintage which Andreas Larsson considers as a very good in Alsace, the wines are pure, transparent, fresh and well-done. The Grand Cru Wineck Schlossberg from Clément Klur is in "My Top Picks", : "merveilleusement minéral et serré, très pure, innocent au palais, excellente longueur en bouche, encore très jeune mais avec un grand potentiel". (mineral, pure, long in the mouth, still young but with a high potential). Alsa noted the riesling Klur 2007 (he 's already tasted it last year, but this time it was older: : "nez de citron et miel, sec et droit avec une fraicheur éclatante, bien structuté, belle finale" (lemon noze, dry, fresh, nice structure, nice final).
30 winegrovers were at the Grand Hotel in Paris to make taste their grands crus to the wine-cellar from Paris and to the press. It was driven by the CIVA, about different kind of soils, and the grand cru Wineck Schlossberg Klur from 1999 and from 2008 were presented.
Photo taken by the special correspondent of the Washington AFP , " attention les vélos" !!
At the professional wine fair in Düsseldorf, PROWEIN, you can find our Alsace wines in the Hall 7A stand AC 23, we share it with 2 others organic wines, friend winegrowers for a long time: Domaine Paire in Ternand Bourgogne organic Beaujolais and Chateau de Bellevue in Lussac St Emilion, organic Bordeaux .
Dominique Rippon ist the successfull author of guides touristiques anglophones (touristic guide in english) in France. It concerns good adress to sleep and to taste local products in Burgundy, Alsace, Champagne and Loire, and of course the best wines. In the area of Colmar, he recommends to go from Kaysersberg to Turkheim by foot by stopping at some places, one of which is in Katzenthal at Klur wine-estate. " Ce serait dommage de ne pas visiter le domaine de Clément Klur, 105 rue des Trois Epis. Un vignoble qui produit d'élégants vins en biodynamie et qui accueille parfaitement les visiteurs chez lui. Clément est l'un des vignerons alsaciens les plus charmants lorsqu'il décrit la consommation de vins "comme une des priorité de la vie" ! avec modération bien sûr. Poursuivez vers Nierdermorschwihr..." etc. An inevitable to visit France.
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Première sortie de l'année et tournée auprès de quelques membres à commencer par le Vignoble Klur pour l'apéritif. Le convinium du Haut Rhin porte le nom de Schnackala (petit escargot en alsacien) et est membre du mouvement Slowfood France. Dégustation de vins Klur et des succulents fromages des Quesnot de Colmar (fromagerie st Nicolas) et puis diner chez Henri Gagneux à la Palette à Wettolsheim. L'occasion d'échanger sur les actions de l'année à venir. Belle dynamique de groupe sous la houlette de Nicolas Senn.
Here we are on the brazilian journalist Rogerio Reboucasblog about wine and wine holidays on the alsacian wine road and particulary at Klur Clément wine estate. We would be pleased to welcome brazilian guests to make them discover regional flavours within our tasty holiday, and for these who read portuguese, connect you at Rogerio.
Winter is a rest period for the soil, the plant and the winegrower; in this season, the sap and the water go very deep under the earth, it's the same for our energy, an introversion time. It's a season on which it feels so good to be doing nothing, like the nature...WE DREAM ABOUT IT... Actually, the riesling and gewurztraminer grand cru are still fermenting in the wine cellar and we have to check it, nearby, we have to prepare orders to be exported, we label bottles due to the sales of the end of the year, at the office, we are handling the accouting, the customer contact, prospects, we are preparing the win -fair for spring 2010. At the same time, outside, we go on pruning and rooting out, we juggle with the good dates of the "calendrier des semis" and with the snow or extreme cold ...
You can plan to do a shopping of emotions on 2010 in Alsace. Vignoble Klur completes his wine holiday offer thanks to the organisation of a network of partners who share the same priorities: respect of the life, discovery of the flavours and of the taste, reduction of our ecological footprint, meeting-sharing-exchange of know be and know how. There are a few possibilities: workshop for one day during a journey at our wine estate, 3 or 7 nights for a couple, a family or with your group of friends of 12 people for a"Self-guided taste of Alsace" or for a "week of delicious nights". All the details when you click on "more". You can book on-line when the offer suits you, or contact us if you'd like to change something.
Parisien Libéré (french newspaper) talks about organic Alsace wines and about Vignoble Klur in its edition from October2009, the 3rd. "Seul vin d'assemblage alsacien d'appelation controlée avec l'edelzwicker, le Gentil désigne les assemblages harmonieux de plusieurs cépages blancs dont au moins 50% de cépages nobles. Avec ce cahier des charges chacune des 25 maisons alsaciennes qui en produisent le fait à sa manière. (...) Chez les Klur on fait un Genitl de Katz, clin d'oeil au village Katzenthal, la vallée des chats, avec du gewurztraminer, du pinot blanc et du pinot gris. Objectif: élargir la gamme avec un vin qui sort du lot, qu'on peut laisser au frais et sortir pour des amis de passage, un vrai vin de convivialité, pour le brunch du dimanche, ou l'apéro, il tient la route.
(Gentil de Katz is the only alsatian blended wine with the edelzwicker, it is made from white varieties of grappe and 50 % noble varieties at less.Each of the 25 alsatian wine estates who makes it is different, ... At Klur, you have a Gentil de Katz, a reference to Katzenthal, the valley of the cats, with gewurztraminer, pinot blanc and pinot gris. Objective: increase the range of wine with a original one, to let in the fridge for friends, a convivial wine, for the brunch on sunday, or for the aperitive.)
3 * * * at Decanter for Grand Cru Wineck Schlossberg 2007
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The wine magazine Decanter tasted 112 riesling grand cru from Alsace vintage 2007 in his october/november issue. Alsace riesling are a good value ! About riesling grand cru Wineck Schlossberg from Vignoble Klur Clément: "classic dry riesling with power and persistence. Strong backbone and concentration. Long but slightly dusty." Recommanded with 3 stars (14,5 to 16,5 points)
En passant un petit clin d'oeil à Paris Bistrot, un super site avec plein de bons tuyaux pour vos sorties et quelques reportages sur des hommes, des femmes et des vins , dont Clément Klur ce mois ci....
A vintage with little steps, we harvest 2 days and stop, harvest again and stop etc... the sky is still blue, indian summer in Alsace ! This morning we went to the Wineck-Schlossberg hill to cut the riesling grand cru grappes (13,5° alcohol), tomorrow we will continu with the gewurztraminer and finish this 2009 harvest. In the wine cellar the fermentations are going on very fast, pinot blanc and pinot gris go to finish soon. Below the first picture of the pinot noir from our little "school-vineyard". We press it by feet.. and will give you a detailled report soon. Linda and Doug Posson from Colorado and the Koch family from Ruederbach joined us for a day. Thank you !.
Nice grappes, beautiful weather, favorable days, motivated team, the winegrower is happy. This early vintage has kept its promise and any rain or storm didn't give trouble during the last days. Nights are cool, days are sunny. Everything is here to give a great harvest which looks promising. Now, we have picked up all pinots, muscats and sylvaner and we are waiting a few days before going on with riesling and gewurztraminer. The fermentation have started slowly, and we will tell you about the juce later. More détails and a retrospective of 2009 in the rest.
Michel Smith explains the interest of organic wines in the last Special vins issue of Paris Match and make a selection of 36 organic french wines under 10 euro, also Crémant d'Alsace made by Clément Klur is one of the 36 ! Following tasting note: "biodynamist, Francine and Clement Klur propose two versions of crémant d'Alsace one with, and one without sulfites. The first one is excellent, fresh, fine nose, grapefruit tastes, the second one is much fuller and remembers apples". About organic wines he thinks that the most important for the consumer is to know that this grappes grown on a healthy soil without chemicals, that the wines are full bodied, tasty, well balanced and fresh, and that the feeling is the one of tasting an alive wine."
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"The welcoming could not have been better. We were welcomed warmly and we were explained all that we should know with great details. All the information given to us was very useful.We also loved the wine tasting tour chez le Vignoble Klur. We stayed at La maison Bleue, its location , its original decor was fanstastic, better than we expected all guests were comfortable and very pleased. One thing I found, specially me because I was the cook, was that the kitchen was a bit small to feed all these people. I guess that could not be helped. In any case I managed and we enjoyed numerous good communal meals on the terrace outside and in the lovely dining room. I really have no complaint nor do all our 13 guests. Au contraire, this vacation was for us all went beyond our expectation. I want to take the opportunity then to thank you for your taste, flair and vision which have allowed the success of this adventure".
Sang de la Terre published a new wine guide this automn only about french organic wines. 3 Klur wines have been selected, 2 of them with a "coup de coeur" special mention for exceptionnal wines: Gewurztraminer vendanges tardives 2007, Pinot gris Klur 2007. rResling Klur 2007 is qualified as a very good wine. More about the tasting notes: in french this time: . " Vendanges tardives 2007 parfaite maîtrise de la sur-
New: Klur wine estate in the guide of best french wines
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Olivier Poussier (best sommelier of the world) tasted and selected the wines of 1300 french wine domaines for this 2010 issue of the best french wines guide published by the Revue des Vins de France. For the first year the wine estate Klur is part of this selection and the wines produced by Klur Clément became note between 14 and 16,5. "This wine estate make sincere wines without sophistication with an excellent price quality rapport. The force of the domaine are the excellent terroirs, mostly on granit soils and very steep (up to 40%) hills." More about this tasting ? continue in french....
"10 years ago Clément Klur started a new winery, took his independance and the way to biodynamie. The family is also very involved in tourism and cultural events are sometimes organised in the round shaped wine cellar. This riesling 2007, born in this organic, grass covered cellar without external yiest is a very fresh wine. A young wine but very elegant wine from granit soils, aromes of white fruits, flowers, honey and spices. To drink now or keep it for a while (rest sugar 3g/l)"
Dry Alsace wines, a report by Catherine Gerbod about riesling and rest sugar. For the french wine control border, dry wines are wines with less then 4 gr sugar. This is not always possible in Alsace where you may taste "dry wines" and clearly feel that they are dry but disc over that they have 7 gr !! a special terroir and balance is the secret of this perfect white wines. At Klur wine estate the riesling Klur 2007 is a really dry wine, good balanced and tasty. More about this tasting ? continue in french....
LThis special wine edition of 2009 presents a selection of wines in accordance to meals. For seefood this gastronomy revue Regal, selected Klur Riesling Grand Cru Wineck Schlossberg 2006 specialy with coquille St Jacques and Turbot :" le riesling Grand Cru Wineck Schlossberg 2006 est proposé avec les saints jacques et le turbot: "Bio et né dans le branit, il a un grand caractère minéral avec des zestes d'agrumes, une bouche puissante, serrée, une finale longue et sapide. En devenir, offrez lui aujourd'hui des st jacques aux agrumes et demain mettez le turbot !"
Five adresses have been noticed in Alsace including the Klur wine-estate, in this famous trip guide MERIAN, and quite devoted to the most beautiful wines region of France. "(...) les sols granitiques du village de Katzenthal produisent ici des riesling élégants avec des notes minérales et des arômes de mangue et d'ananas. Frais et fruités sont les vins de cuvée: Voyou de Katz et son collègue plus gouleyant le Gentil de Katz (...). La cave enterrée de forme circulaire vaut le détour (...)".
"Granitic soils in Katzenthal produce elegant and minerals riesling with mango and ananas flavours. The 2 blended wines, Voyou de Katz and gentil de Katz are fresh and fruity. The round undergroung winecellar is surprising".
The 2nd edition for sustainable travelling of this globe trotter welknow travel guide also selected some adresses where to stay in Alsace (only 3) Spa hôtel la Clairière, l'hotel Villa Rosa and Vignoble Klur. We are very happy to be mentionned in it and hope that this guide we be very successfull. If you travel to our wine estate or stay at our houses we will give a lot more tips to discover Alsace in a more ecological way. You may also travel to us by train (2 hours TGV from Paris - stop at Colmar)
Ecolomag, is a magazin for pragmatic people ! every month they present a destination for a sustainable vacation time, in September the magazin choosed Vignoble Klur in Alsace on the famous wine route for its environmental engagement, the possibilities to stay in an organic holiday cottage or apartment starting 3 nights and discover the organic and biodyanmic wines of the Klur family. More details (in french this time)
Klur wine estate was born on september 4th 1999, and on september 5th, just before starting the picking of 2009 vintage we will organise an open house for everybody who.helped us during these 10 years, to go the organic & biodynamic way we choosed, to built the wine cellars, to sell our wines, to buy and drink it... Starting at 4pm, there will be wine tastings, organic farmer products combinations with the Klur wines, musical moments, pictures of past 10 years, etc. If you are in Alsace at that time let us know.
Beautifull pictures from the village of Katzenthal during this journey on summer 2009, and for all those who have interest in sea, in sailing, the protestant, just have a look at the Emig website.
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En ce début août, les grappes de muscat sont déjà au début du stade de la véraison (mûrissement du fruit) et laissent présager des vendanges précoces et une bonne maturité pour ce millésime 2009... L'alternance de courtes périodes de pluies et d'ensoleillement intenses en juin et juillet, pourtant propice au développement de maladies n'a pas eu d'incidence sur nos vignes. L'on voit quelques petites tâches de mildiou et d'oïdium mais sans gravité. Les tisanes et les très faibles doses de cuivre et soufre suffisent à protéger la plante. De même les attaques de vers de la grappe sont faibles, peut être en raison de notre choix de fauchage beaucoup moins fréquents dans les rangs cette année, donc de la présence d'herbes hautes très diversifiées (graminées et fleurs), servant de refuge à de multiples auxiliaires (comme d'ailleurs sur le toit de notre cave enherbée , photo ci dessous). En cave le pinot gris Klur et le riesling grand cru Wineck Schlossberg ont enfin terminé leurfermentation et sont prêts pour la mise en bouteille prévue le 1er et 2 septembre. Il reste encore un peu d'effeuillage à faire, travailler le sol autour des pieds si la végétation pousse (assez calme pour l'instant) et les vendanges à préparer...affaire à suivre....
Whenever the vignes let us alone, we build something... a shelter for the material was missing (for the trailer, tracked vehicle, Fergusson tractor), we have choosen a structure with a wood fram and a weatherboarding made with spruce from the Vosges which isn't treated. The company Gutzwiller from Oltingue has set it up, they are specialised in wood constructions and the roof has been realised by Christian Lang (Optigrün process) , already used in 1999 for the vinification-cellar roof . We sow, and later, the flowers...
"UN GRAND COUP D'IODE" by Gérard Muteau
ALSACE, Riesling Klur 2007 "Toute la minéralité du riesling issu d'un vignoble cultivé en biodynamie. Notes d'agrumes, persistance aromatique, finale droite et pure. Boire sur une mouclade". Price 10 euros, Katzenthal 0389809429, www.klur.net
The lokal press DNA published a large information about this "open wine estate day" on june 1st 2009 and about the huge dessert table made by the children of 7e class of Waldorf School Mathias Grünewald at Logelbach. A selection of first pictures are published here in this Diaporama and soon you will see more. Take time to discover the pictures of this photographer Marc Heimermann and also his latest book about dégustations sprirituelles, wine tastings with saints
Wine estate Klur recommanded by Nature & Découvertes
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Nature et Découvertes selected 20 adresses for some different holidays in France, organic, sustainable, hiking with donkeys, living in trees, and discovering of organic wines at wine estate Klur in Alsace. Special offers for Nature et Decouvertes clients, you will find one close to your place
A very detailled and interesting guide about the best wine regions in France. About Alsace, 5 wineries are recommanded and the guide tasted them for the welcome at the wine cellar and the stay for holidays. Vignoble Klur at Katzenthal is one of the 5 "winners" and very happy to help wine amateurs to discover the alsatian wine region and organic and biodynamic way of making wine.
By bicycle, foot, car or oldtimer bus your came from Oxford, United States, Singapur, Hong Kong, China, Germany, Bretagne and Normandie, to discover our wine tastings and wine tour offers called St Odile, St Urbain, St Martin, St Morand !! and also all of you coming to our open house day 1st of june (pictures will come soon). One of the visitors liked very much mami's garden and he is still here....
If you stay in Alsace june 1st or plan to travel through our region, make a stop at a little village of the wine route and enjoy organic things to drink, eat, discover vineyards and surroundings. There is something to do for everybody and you will enjoy to discuss with locals about organic farming and living. Klur Winestate in Katzenthal june 1st from 10 am to 7 pm. We are located 6 km from Colmar the heart of Alsace region. How to find us. Full programm on next page
Organic dinner at wine estate Klur for schools of Senegal
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Enjoy the fine organic receipes prepared by Christine Spohn, who created an organic party service at Strasbourg some years ago; it is on friday 5th june 2009 at Vignoble KLUR in Katzenthal and beneficts will help some schools in Senegal to forward their development (association AKA).. This event takes places in french Printemps Bio 2009 read more about the programm and try to come...
29 avril 2009, it is springtime and everything awakes ! this special and rare vineyards tulips bring a lot of sunshine actually. It is a period of soil work and for the biodynamic preparation called 500. Yesterday was perfect because the rain of the night opened the soils after 10 days of very hot and dry weather. At 6 pm everything was ready except this home made engin used to spray the preparation on the vineyards soils, Clément had to repare quick before spreeding out until the night. During the day we prepared the embotteling of next week and had to clean the tuns. As pinot gris Klur and riesling grand cru Wineck Schlossberg are still in fermentation, the wines for the Voyou de Katz and Gentil de Katz 2008 are ready. Today 2 delegations of the national organisation Vignerons Independants visited us. 50 wine growers from other regions in France interested by organic growing, architecture, and wine tourism. This is the wine growers life...always jumping from one work to the other !
After this long winter time, the first flowers came out this week...we just finished cuting the vines (its called pruning) because we started late january to respect the rythm of the plant. Actually we start to attach the vine shoots, this a women work, man repar the system of trellising (but organisation may also be different). Everything is still asleap outside but there is some activity in the wine cellar: some of our 2008 wines didn't finish their fermentation. Perhaps they also feel the growing up of the sap in the vine stocks outside.... Last 2 months we didn't have a lot of opportunities to respect the moon rythms because we had to share our outside work between the rain periods and snow storms, a real wintertime !! normally it is better to prun young vinestock at downward and weaker ones at rising moon but it is not always possible. Either we didn't spread the bio dynamic preparations for the soil because it was to weat and the tractor would have pack the ground of the vineyards and this is not good for the life in the soil in spring. We will do it this month and tell you about it. Maria Thun's calender of sowings remembers us that "if the meadows are covered with snow in march, the harvest will be good", so everything is perfect, just be patient....
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Dans le cadre du Printemps des Poêtes, la Médiathèque de Kaysersberg a, comme tous les ans, décentralisé une soirée au Vignoble Klur, et Jean Marie Radiguet bien connu du public, est venu réciter Pablo Neruda. Fortes vibrations du Canto Generale qui ont fait s'activer sérieusement les vins encore en fermentation et séduit les quelques 30 invités présents. Ce matin le compteur d'électricité avait fondu !!! pour vous dire....Lire ou relire aussi son autobiographie "J'avoue avoir vécu", voir ou revoir le documentaire consacré à sa vie diffusé sur Arte et qui éclaire aussi d'autres facettes du mythe Neruda et bien sûr le film Le Postier avec P.Noiret. Bref ! un beau moment qui imprègnera le millésime 2008 !
The belge wine magazine IN VINO VERITAS wrights about a few upcoming wine estates in Alsace this spring. Belge consumer is very informed about Alsace wines as his country is still the first importeur for this french wine region. It was very important to make a selection of a few young or something differant domains and Vignoble Klur is featured too. " At Clément Klur's place in Katzenthal all is organic from the vineyards to the wine cellars. Clément and his wife Francine know also who to communicate and they created two different wine ranges, one with easy drinking cépages wines the other with selections from old vines and grand cru. For example this riesling Klur 2007 fresh, mineral taste, dry, elegant or better the Grand Cru Wineck Schlossberg 2007 a nice freshness with a little rest suggar or the same Grand Cru Wineck Schlossberg 2006 very elegant, grapefruit taste and vitality." Signed Bernard Arnould (translation Klur "à peu près"). More informations about IN VINO VERITAS sous cette adresse
NEW !! you will like to book this private wellness room just for you...sauna, sanarium (also called danarium or bio-sauna, is a soft form with less heat, regular humidity and essential oils). At the 1 floor of the guest house at our wine estate in Katzenthal, for 2 hours or more if you like to add a body care with an experienced masseur based in Colmar and who will come specially for you. This place is also equiped with a tube for two, cold shower bassin, kneipp installations, table fountain, samovar, music, fountain with filtered water to drink. Also light stimulation lamps. And we will organise a bottle of one of our organic wines...You can book here...
Some relaxing hours at the "Katz valley" look like this ? certainly not. On request M. Jacques Renault, naturopathe and confirmed pratician of relaxation will come to the house and you will discover some modelling techniques which associates softness and quietude and supports relaxation like massage thuina, reflexologie plantaire, relaxation coréenne in accordance to each individual clients requirements. M. Renault has a long practice (wellness ressorts, wellness hotels), is actually based in Colmar and will use our wellness area for you. Think about by booking a stay at Vignoble Klur, you will like this moments of pure relaxation at home.
This is our new partnership for 2009. The organic and sustainable holiday and travel offers selected by DEMETER (the official label for biodynamie) also include Winestate Klur for next year. You may find very interesting destinations, hotels, holiday houses and also activ or group travels. We appear in "Organic farm stays".
The magazine Tasted published his second wine guide all selected by Andreas Larsson best sommelier of the world 2007. Wine from France, Italy, Spain, Germany and US and a few riesling from Alsace specially 2006 and 2007 vintages. Andreas Larsson selected 97 Alsace wines and Riesling Klur 2007 among the 8 selections for 2007: "young and bright, pure and fruity with citrus notes and some stone fruits, good grip on the palate, fresh and fairly long. Classically Dry". Vintage 2006 he selected the Riesling Wineck Schlossberg in his top picks "young and bright colour, the nose is pure and expressive with hints of citrus, minerals and stone fruits, good structure on the palate, still firm with a high freshness, long and mouth watering finish."
It happened !! all our bedrooms are now full organic. You perhaps know our coton beddings and german wheat or millet pillows, now we changed all the matresses for natural products and you may choose between 100% latex, or latex and coco or latex and straw. We keep some traditional ones to combine with over matresses in organic coton or wool. All our beds are made from wood without sticks or mettalic parts, no treatment at all. We bought these different types at Ardelaine, Sanadorm, Allnatura, Loewe. We clean the bedings with Sonett products. If you want to try it you are welcome. Come back a few times because every bedroom equipement is different....Why do you sleep better in natural beds ? read more about it in the following page
The german magazin Vertraeglich Reisen, who is spezialised in sustainable tourism and organic travel tips selected Vignoble Klur as an interesting place to stay because of its ecological offer. This is one or our new partners for 2009, you will find us in the magazin part concerning "recommanded places to stay". Use also Vertraeglich Reisen website for travel ideas all other Europe, train and bus connexions, bikke or hikking holidays, discovering natural parks etc and change your way of life soon...
It is still very difficult to translate tasting notes...this one is from the september 08 issue of the wellknown Revue des vins de France and gave a note of 16 (great wines are noted 15,5 to 17) to the riesling Grand Cru Wineck Schlossberg 2004 and a compliment to big potentiel of the wine estate of Katzenthal". Now in french:"Issu d'un terroir granitique, ce riesling droit, offre une grande tension et une pureté cristalline, la matière est profilée, ciselée et enthousiasme par sa grande précision de saveurs. L'acidité et les notes d'agrumes ne feront pas peur à un poisson de mer aux épices. Ce domaine de Katzenthal en biodynamie possède un grand potentiel. Note 16" (Echelle de notation: 15,5 à 17: grand vin)Revue des Vins de France, septembre 2008. Nos dégustateurs ont aimés.
Every one brought his rough-hew for fire, some chesnuts and apples...we prepared organic bread and Gentil de Katz. Guests came from Colmar, Kaysersberg, Strasbourg, Nancy and Marie Barthelemy, the narrator, told us stories about life and mysteries. The evening ended with dancing fires in the court. Magic evening at Klur this 5 december 2008
The new guide of Jean Marc Carité gave 1, 2 and 3 heards to Klur organic wines. This guide also publishes the suffer content if the winegrower gives the information. Tasting notes in french, sorry for: "Riesling Klur2007, SO2 total 75, libre 25, or blanc lumineux, floral, fleurs blanches et minéral. Elégant. En bouche, de la fraîcheur, de la vivacité même, qui évolue sur un fruité de belle acidité. Persistance aromatique intéressante, riche, aux pointes minérales. On est tenté de dire un vin atypique au bon sens du terme. Même si sa belle minéralité (très granitique) finit par dominer les arômes floraux et fruités. 2coeurs. Pinot blanc Klur 2007, SO2total 97, libre 29. Or blanc translucide. On peut, là, parler d'un vin "blanc". Nez finement fruité (fruits blancs et exotiques) avec une pointe de minéralité granitique. Souplesse en bouche qui évolue sur la minéralité. Bonne longueur aux notes également fruitées. De l'élégance pour ce pinot blanc aux accents granitiques. 1 coeur. Pinot gris Klur 2007, SO2 total 108, libre 31. Or lumineux, nez discret qui demande à s'ouvrir sur un fruité agréable. Souple et rond en bouche, sur le fruit qui s'affirme avec une certaine ampleur soyeuse. Belle longueur sur le fruité. Proche d'une vendange tardive, à savourer dabord pour lui même. Garde intéressante. 3 coeurs." Order this guide at éditions d'Utovie, many other publications about organic production and ecological life style.
German leading wine magazine tasted 60 pinots from wine growers of Alsace wine region (pinot blanc, pinot gris, pinot noir). Selection of 17 wines and there are 2 Klur wines ! our pinot blanc and pinot noir. Pinot blanc 2007 "very fruity, light botritis, very mineral and crispy wine. Good structure. A typical pinot blanc with a very interesting "matière", 85 points. Pinot noir 2006, "red fruit aromes, nice and elegant taste, very fine and very good structure, 83 points.
Short stay in Montreal, an invitation from our Québec agent Importations Syl-vins. We met a lot of nice people, spoke about our wine estate and discovered marvelous wines from all over the world and famous canadian restaurants. After a few days we needed a walk to the "mountain of Montreal", Mont Royal, the downtown and St Laurents view was perfect on this day. For your next trip please don't forgett these places: les 3 petits bouchons, wine bar on Plateau area, the french restaurant La Montee 1424 rue Bishop, the buiseness meeting point la Rapière Sunlife building, Chez L'épicier in the old part of Montreal, take a trip out of town to La Cava in Terrebonne (30mn to drive north) and L'incrédule at Longueuil run by Josée Latendresse and her daugthers. Do something for blind people and book a meal at O'Noir restaurant on St Catherine. Give us your comments about this...
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Une belle palette de vins d'Alsace retenus dans le dernier 
tourisme durable à Katzenthal
Le sentier au départ du village, par le grand cru Sommerberg, vous passez à coté de la cave, puis au dessus le Niedermorschwihr, le rocher du Corbeau, le Galtz, retour par le grand cru Wineck Schlossberg et le chateau fort du Wineck
Dans tout amateur de vin, il y a donc un buveur d'eau qui s'ignore!"
During this sommer the Blue House in Riquewihr is booked for short stays for family come together. Perfect location if you don't want to drive too far, stay next to an airport or train connexion, take grand'ma, grand'pa, children, grand'children and share this large holiday house together. All facilities nearby for different generations and a lot to see and visit ! "Thanks a lot for this stay at the Maison Bleue, ist was wonderfull, the house is very beautifull and perfect for 16 people. Thanks for the welcome gift, we also took a few bottles in the wine cellar and take some pinot noir home" wrote the Wiczinski Family this morning. 
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We'd like to wish you a happy Easter and invite you to enjoy the first days of spring to taste all this tasty herbs which you can find in the nature now and which clean your organism at the end of this winter.Think of nettle, sorrel, dandelion, bear's garlic soon, light herb teas, wood energy.
A few nice tasting-notes to greet the last-born from Klur Clément wine-estate : a crémant without added sulfite "Yellow gold. Open nose conjuring up jammy fruits and sweet pastry. Palate with a lively structure. A very honest crémant". The Guide Gilbert et Gaillard notes it 84 (85 for the traditional crémant, which is "light gold. Fairly ripe and fruity nose. Freshness, fruity finish of quite substantial lengh. A wine for sharing over a buffet".
Organicaly perfect and with refinement!.... We are touched."Ecologiquement parfait avec une point de raffinement" dixit the Maison Ecologique.( french magazine) "D'un coup de baguette magique à partir d'un existant peu glorieux, avec une pointe d'huile de coude, un esprit créatif sans limites, une volonté écologique ferme et sans concessions, le lieu est transfomé en une halte incontournable pour toute personne ayant un projet d'écoconstruction tant il est inspirant(...). Le clou de la visite, la cave située de l'autre coté de la courette. Ronde et unique en son genre elle abrite des futs de chêne qui semblent n'attendre que vous. (...)Francine et Clément ont placé la barre très haut, difficile de faire écologiquement mieux, à tout point de vue. Assurément l'une des meilleures adresses pour un véritable séjour écologique en Alsace". 
30 winegrovers were at the Grand Hotel in Paris to make taste their grands crus to the wine-cellar from Paris and to the press. It was driven by the CIVA, about different kind of soils, and the grand cru Wineck Schlossberg Klur from 1999 and from 2008 were presented.
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Winter is a rest period for the soil, the plant and the winegrower; in this season, the sap and the water go very deep under the earth, it's the same for our energy, an introversion time. It's a season on which it feels so good to be doing nothing, like the nature...WE DREAM ABOUT IT... Actually, the riesling and gewurztraminer grand cru are still fermenting in the wine cellar and we have to check it, nearby, we have to prepare orders to be exported, we label bottles due to the sales of the end of the year, at the office, we are handling the accouting, the customer contact, prospects, we are preparing the win -fair for spring 2010. At the same time, outside, we go on pruning and rooting out, we juggle with the good dates of the "calendrier des semis" and with the snow or extreme cold ...
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A vintage with little steps, we harvest 2 days and stop, harvest again and stop etc... the sky is still blue, indian summer in Alsace ! This morning we went to the Wineck-Schlossberg hill to cut the riesling grand cru grappes (13,5° alcohol), tomorrow we will continu with the gewurztraminer and finish this 2009 harvest. In the wine cellar the fermentations are going on very fast, pinot blanc and pinot gris go to finish soon. Below the first picture of the pinot noir from our little "school-vineyard". We press it by feet.. and will give you a detailled report soon. Linda and Doug Posson from Colorado and the Koch family from Ruederbach joined us for a day. Thank you !. 
Nice grappes, beautiful weather, favorable days, motivated team, the winegrower is happy. This early vintage has kept its promise and any rain or storm didn't give trouble during the last days. Nights are cool, days are sunny. Everything is here to give a great harvest which looks promising. Now, we have picked up all pinots, muscats and sylvaner and we are waiting a few days before going on with riesling and gewurztraminer. The fermentation have started slowly, and we will tell you about the juce later. More détails and a retrospective of 2009 in the rest.
"The welcoming could not have been better. We were welcomed warmly and we were explained all that we should know with great details. All the information given to us was very useful.We also loved the wine tasting tour chez le Vignoble Klur. We stayed at La maison Bleue, its location , its original decor was fanstastic, better than we expected all guests were comfortable and very pleased. One thing I found, specially me because I was the cook, was that the kitchen was a bit small to feed all these people. I guess that could not be helped. In any case I managed and we enjoyed numerous good communal meals on the terrace outside and in the lovely dining room. I really have no complaint nor do all our 13 guests. Au contraire, this vacation was for us all went beyond our expectation. I want to take the opportunity then to thank you for your taste, flair and vision which have allowed the success of this adventure".
. " Vendanges tardives 2007 parfaite maîtrise de la sur-
Olivier Poussier (best sommelier of the world) tasted and selected the wines of 1300 french wine domaines for this 2010 issue of the best french wines guide published by the Revue des Vins de France. For the first year the wine estate Klur is part of this selection and the wines produced by Klur Clément became note between 14 and 16,5. "This wine estate make sincere wines without sophistication with an excellent price quality rapport. The force of the domaine are the excellent terroirs, mostly on granit soils and very steep (up to 40%) hills." More about this tasting ? continue in french....
Dry Alsace wines, a report by Catherine Gerbod about riesling and rest sugar. For the french wine control border, dry wines are wines with less then 4 gr sugar. This is not always possible in Alsace where you may taste "dry wines" and clearly feel that they are dry but disc over that they have 7 gr !! a special terroir and balance is the secret of this perfect white wines. At Klur wine estate the riesling Klur 2007 is a really dry wine, good balanced and tasty. More about this tasting ? continue in french....
The 2nd edition for sustainable travelling of this globe trotter welknow travel guide also selected some adresses where to stay in Alsace (only 3) Spa hôtel la Clairière, l'hotel Villa Rosa and Vignoble Klur. We are very happy to be mentionned in it and hope that this guide we be very successfull. If you travel to our wine estate or stay at our houses we will give a lot more tips to discover Alsace in a more ecological way. You may also travel to us by train (2 hours TGV from Paris - stop at Colmar)
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If you stay in Alsace june 1st or plan to travel through our region, make a stop at a little village of the wine route and enjoy organic things to drink, eat, discover vineyards and surroundings. There is something to do for everybody and you will enjoy to discuss with locals about organic farming and living. Klur Winestate in Katzenthal june 1st from 10 am to 7 pm. We are located 6 km from Colmar the heart of Alsace region. 
Enjoy the fine organic receipes prepared by 
Kaysersberg a, comme tous les ans, décentralisé une soirée au Vignoble Klur, et Jean Marie Radiguet bien connu du public, est venu réciter Pablo Neruda. Fortes vibrations du Canto Generale qui ont fait s'activer sérieusement les vins encore en fermentation et séduit les quelques 30 invités présents. Ce matin le compteur d'électricité avait fondu !!! pour vous dire....
Lire ou relire aussi son autobiographie "J'avoue avoir vécu", voir ou revoir le 
The belge wine magazine 
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This is our new partnership for 2009. The organic and sustainable holiday and travel offers selected by 
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It happened !! all our bedrooms are now full organic. You perhaps know our coton beddings and german wheat or millet pillows, now we changed all the matresses for natural products and you may choose between 100% latex, or latex and coco or latex and straw. We keep some traditional ones to combine with over matresses in organic coton or wool. All our beds are made from wood without sticks or mettalic parts, no treatment at all. We bought these different types at 
The german magazin 
Every one brought his rough-hew for fire, some chesnuts and apples...we prepared organic bread and Gentil de Katz. Guests came from Colmar, Kaysersberg, Strasbourg, Nancy and Marie Barthelemy, the narrator, told us stories about life and mysteries. The evening ended with dancing fires in the court. Magic evening at Klur this 5 december 2008
The new guide of Jean Marc 
Short stay in Montreal, an invitation from our Québec agent