Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Thomery Makes the News

BIEN avant Moissac, dans le Tarn-et-Garonne, Thomery fut, au XIX e siècle, la capitale du chasselas. « Chaque maison de viticulteur possédait une ou plusieurs chambres à raisin. C’est l’un d’eux qui découvrit que l’on pouvait conserver, pendant des mois, les grappes de chasselas, en trempant son sarment dans l’eau d’une petite fiole de verre.

L’eau exerce une pression, qui permet de maintenir la sève au niveau des fruits. La grappe conserve alors sa couleur dorée et sa fraîcheur très longtemps. En récoltant le raisin en septembre, il était fréquent d’en vendre encore à Noël », raconte Yves Hubert, membre de l’Association de préfiguration du musée de la Vigne. Dans une chambre à raisin, près de mille grappes pouvaient être stockées.
Le Parisien

WELL before Moissac, in the Tarn-et-Garonne, Thomery was, to the XIX E century, the capital of chasselas. “Each house of wine grower had one or more rooms with grape. It is one of them which discovered that one could preserve, during months, the bunches of chasselas, by soaking its vine shoot in the water of a small flask of glass. Water exerts a pressure, which makes it possible to maintain the sap on the level of the fruits. The bunch then preserves its gilded color and its freshness very a long time. By collecting the grape in September, it was frequent to still sell some to Christmas”, tells Yves Hubert, member of the Association of prefiguration of the museum of the Vine. In a room with grape, nearly thousand bunches could be stored. The Parisian one

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Larpenteur Inn in Thomery


(If you cannot read French, copy and paste the text at
and translate it from French to English. It is not a precise translation but will help!)
Thanks you, Jean COUSIN!

Monday, August 11, 2008

Thomery, France

While in France for the Larpenteur Tour in May, we were given a wonderful reception by our Larpenteur Cousins and the village of Thomery, where our ancestors lived. Everything was just perfect and memories were made to last a lifetime! The city graciously gave each of us a nice Postcard Book with photos depicting the village of Thomery past and present. Here are the photos that are contained in that book: (Click on each photo to see the full-sized version)