TRAVEL PLANNING FOR FOR WINE LOVERS

Wine lovers heading for France this year are just a mouse click away more than 1,100 pages of routes, town guides and traffic news, plus the only on-line guide giving directions to vineyards.

And if a favourite wine is not on the lists of winedrive.com, subscribers to the site's Premier Pages can get help tracking it down or finding suitable alternatives.

Said Managing Director, David Spokes: "We aim to make WineDrive the easiest to use travel site for France, with the added bonus of being the only website to identify quality vineyards with directions to help the motorist find them."

The addition of the Provence wine region brings the total vineyards listed by WineDrive to 80, offering 180 appellations and more than 520 wines. Many hold industry awards and come with a history dating back to Roman times. There is comprehensive information about each vineyard, its owners and their wines, plus a wealth of other travel and historical information about France.

More than 550 free access pages give easy to follow routes, tourist information, history and town guides, plus introductory notes on French wine and booking links to ferry companies and hotels.

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