Arts & Culture

Reading between the vines

Saumur is taken as a starting point from which to discuss French identity and to help sketch a portrait of France in the year 2000.

A series of meetings with wine growers where each of them sheds light on the French savoir-faire handed down from generation to generation. Weaving between tradition and modernity, the one thing all these people have in common is an ´art for life´. The festive aspect of the Book and Wine Fair confirms this. French and foreign writers alike air their views about a shared love of literature, wine and the French identity, at once united and multi-faceted.