Making the wine of angels

It looks like the orange soil of Mars familiar from Nasa photographs. However, this is the endless, blisteringly hot stone fields of the steep foothills of Mount Ventoux in the southern Rhone.

It is easy to see the attractions of this unique landscape on the edge of Provence. Indeed it would be hard to see what artist, or Dublin-born winemaker, would not fall in love with the cacophony of vivid colours on show ...