Saint-Émilion, which is half an hour away from us, will be a lot busier than this for the weekend of 17 July.

The day before, the tour goes past the end of our road in Créon.

The tour is scheduled to go up the D13, on the right, before turning left onto the D671 and past the end of Rue Bauduc. The vineyards, field and woods of Bauduc below the town might show up on the shots from above. ‘So that’s where the wine comes from.’ We are currently planning to arrange enough of our own hail bales to spell ‘BAUDUC’ in front of the Château, though it’s just a daft idea at the mo.