Black Prince - Wine trade in Medieval Europe - Lourdes

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Mar 17, 201227:59Society & Culture

John McCarthy meets a writer who followed in the 14th century footsteps of the Black Prince through SW France; an historian who has followed a medieval wine trail through Gascony and a novelist who was seduced by the lur...

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