Pour de France: Prunes, Pinot and a Premature Finish

As the serious players come out to play, we talk sadistic Slovenians, rustic French brandy, bracing bubbles from Languedoc and, as ever, some feeble wordplay and superfluous scatological schoolboy smut.     

Buy Cremant de Limoux from Berry Bros here

Buy Darrozes Armaganac from Whisky Exchange

Buy Baron de Signonac from Whisky Exchange

Improve your French with l'Equipe

Let's hope Primoz Roglic is better at cycling than ski-jumping.