Friday was a terrible grey & miserable day in the Loire, we were so lucky we had done our bike tour already. Arriving in Bordeaux (red wine capital of France!) we stopped into the information centre to find out about wine tours of the region and could you believe it.. they were completely booked out for the whole weekend! Every group tour over the whole weekend! Very disappointing.
Our sad feeling didn't last for long because wow what a town. Bordeaux was beautiful. Big wide boulevards interspersed with pretty cobblestone alleyways. Little pastry shops with the best Pain Au Chocolates around and the best restaurants of our trip. Sitting eating duck and drinking incredible red wine out in a little alleyway with street performers playing in the background was bliss. I also got to try Foie Gras; a duck liver pate that is very popular in France, I didn't like it.
We had booked into visit one vineyard that was on the public transport route since we couldn't do a tour. We headed down early to have a picnic in the park down the road which was fun especially when it started pouring with rain! Luckily we were under a heavy leafed tree so we didn't get wet and it turned out quite atmospheric.
The vineyard was called Pope Clement, it dates back to the 1200s and it was very fancy. We received a short tour giving an introduction into their wine making process and then taken to the wine tasting. The free tastings were from other wineries owned by the same guy because the wines from Pope Clement were around 100 euros a bottle so you had to pay for them. In the tasting room I spotted a wine for 10,000 euros! This was an extravagant country.
Friday was a terrible grey & miserable day in the Loire, we were so lucky we had done our bike tour already. Arriving in Bordeaux (red wine capital of France!) we stopped into the information centre to find out about wine tours of the region and could you believe it.. they were completely booked out for the whole weekend! Every group tour over the whole weekend! Very disappointing.
Our sad feeling didn't last for long because wow what a town. Bordeaux was beautiful. Big wide boulevards interspersed with pretty cobblestone alleyways. Little pastry shops with the best Pain Au Chocolates around and the best restaurants of our trip. Sitting eating duck and drinking incredible red wine out in a little alleyway with street performers playing in the background was bliss. I also got to try Foie Gras; a duck liver pate that is very popular in France, I didn't like it.
We had booked into visit one vineyard that was on the public transport route since we couldn't do a tour. We headed down early to have a picnic in the park down the road which was fun especially when it started pouring with rain! Luckily we were under a heavy leafed tree so we didn't get wet and it turned out quite atmospheric.
The vineyard was called Pope Clement, it dates back to the 1200s and it was very fancy. We received a short tour giving an introduction into their wine making process and then taken to the wine tasting. The free tastings were from other wineries owned by the same guy because the wines from Pope Clement were around 100 euros a bottle so you had to pay for them. In the tasting room I spotted a wine for 10,000 euros! This was an extravagant country.
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