The Jurade visited York on 10th April 2010, bringing some if its pageantry and colour to one ancient City from another. Their visit provided an appopriate occasion for the Declaration of Ecumenical Friendship between York Minster and the Église Collégiale in the heart of the Jurisidiction. The Jurade processed through the streets of York with the Lord Mayor from his official residence at the Mansion House to the Minster. They were greeted by the Dean of York who welcomed the Jurade to Evensong in which the Abbé de Rozières, Abbé de Saint-Émilion and Prieur de la Jurade, joined and led the congregation in prayer.



The Jurats were then told and shown something of the glories of the Minster by the Dean before he joined them and the Lord Mayor and other candidates for admission to the Jurade to process to the Guildhall for a champagne reception. There then took place a ceremonial Exceptional Chapter of the Jurade at which the Dean as well as Mr Darrell Buttery, President of the York Civic Trust and one of Her Majesty’s Deputy Lieutenants for the County, and Mr Mike Tipping, wine correspondent and writer, were intronisé into the Jurade.
The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Councillor John Galvin, was also intronisé as Vigneron d’Honneur et Bourgeois de Saint-Émilion and toasted the Jurade and Jurisdiction of Saint-Émilion from his City’s priceless historic 24 carat solid gold cup – filled for the purpose, of course, with a wine from the Jurisdiction.

Dinner followed at the Merchant Taylor’s Hall, accompanied by seven different wines from Saint-Émilion, and one each from Lussac-Saint-Émilion and Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion, giving those present a little taste of the elegance, range and versatility of the wines from the “Hill of a Thousand Crûs” and its immediate neighbours to the north.


Photographs on this and the following page show some of the highlights of these events:

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The Jurade visits York

The York Waits lead the procession to the Minster	Processing to the Minster	The Lord Mayor leading Vignerons d'Honneur & Guests
The Lord Mayor & M. Jean-Francois Quenin	Arriving at the Minster	The Dean greeting the Jurats at the South Door
The Lord Mayor and the Dean	Beneath the Five Sisters	After Evensong in the Minster
The Dean describing some of the Minster's glories	The Dean explaining about the Heart of York window	Processing to the Guildhall
Processing up Stonegate	Nearing St. Helen's Square	Crossing St. Helen's Square

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