Monday, September 18, 2006
What to do when its raining and you have company
You start pouring, going to Winieries that is... under the protective roof, you can sip wines all day long and take a few home for the chef to cook with, the chef being me! Our friend came from Zurich during a thunderstorm so we did what we know best and took them to numberous winiers in our region. Chateaux Hospitalet was a hit and we like their Villamajou wines the best. Later, in the weekend we went to their restaurant and had the all you can drink wine buffet! The food was not anything spectacular, but when you can serve yourself at the wine buffet, it becomes all relative. The have rooms to stay in and are condsidered a three star hotel--over looking the vines, you can't go wrong.Capitoul was gorgeous, the views, the tasting bar, the drum beating...they had rented out one of their rooms for a drum beating retreat that added to the ambience of the wine tasting... they also rent rooms there in the chateaux which looked fabulous and little cottages on the property. I wish that I had known about these places when we were planning our wedding.
At Chateaux Rouquette sur Mer we hundled in their little wine shop with some German tourists who were getting pretty sloshed, and tasted their Vin Mousse, which is like a Champagne as well as a number of whites and took home some Muscot sec. They have a beautiful properties as well that they rent by the week or month. You can stay in an old vintner's cottage that is 800 meters from the sea and still in the middle of the vineyards.
We also made it to Chateaux Le Boius that has a Jazz bar during the summer months and beautiful terraced restaurant. Along the way, we enjoyed the views and the weather started to clear up, so that we could start the next day with some outdoor activities like mushroom picking...
1 Comments:
Good suggestions!
I love Muscat sec, too.
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