On October 25 and 26, the Brotherhood of the Croatian Wine Knights traveled to Imotski, a wine-growing region in southern Dalmatia, to celebrate its chapter and explore its wine resources. Together with Slovenian Vice President Janez Dežman, we accepted their invitation and brought greetings from the FICB. On Saturday afternoon, the brotherhood paraded in costume through the streets of the town to the house of Ivan Turic, a recently deceased monk and collector whose home is soon to become a

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Coordination Comitee of the Ile de France Region Confréries (Brotherhoods)) had big plans: a ceremony, a mass in Notre Dame Cathedral, which had been magnificently restored after the terrible fire that devastated it six years ago. Nearly 600 people from around 60 brotherhoods attended. Aware of the appeal of a ceremony in the renovated Notre Dame Cathedral, we published an article to draw our members’ attention to it. As a result, many participants belonged