Welcome to Savor the Harvest where we share our wine, food, and travel experiences!
Hi from Lynn (and Mark) who love savoring the wine and food harvest!
Our love for, and involvement in both started casually and continues to grow. I find it seriously difficult to pass up wandering isles of a farmers’ market, or even more, hiking through vineyards to a tasting room! (The white and red stripes on the post above signify a GR trail, meaning a great hike, or Grande Randonnée in French.)
Our current base is Bordeaux, France, where we landed late 2016.
I never stop learning and currently hold the Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET) Advanced Wine and Spirits certification (L3), and am a French Wine Scholar (FWS) and Italian Wine Scholar (IWS) through the Wine Scholar Guild. More recently, I completed the House of Lustau Certified Sherry Wine Scholar program (CSWS®) with honors, also through the Wine Scholar Guild.
Mark is now a PhD (July 2022)! Obtained at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRAE) at their Institute des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin (ISVV) in Bordeaux, France. His ongoing research focuses on the drought stress response of different grape vine varieties and how they modify their water use (succinct version).
Savor the Harvest is a creative endeavor to share our thirst for adventure and wine. And of course, you have to have food when wine is involved!
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Beneath a Douro Valley rainbow.
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.” Amelia Earhart