Thanksgiving is about family and dear friends, to be surrounded by those we love. Thanksgiving is when Autumn’s golden hues, its’ burnt umbers and cinnamons change to winter’s mantle of green and white. Thanksgiving is when the nights have drawn in …

I am so very many miles from where I was living last November, almost 5000 miles from Lourmarin in Provence, France. Yet as I drive around the sun-drenched, autumnal vineyards of California’s Napa Valley the countryside is not so very …