Sunday, December 13, 2009

St. Emilion Region

Bordeaux has more wine regions than we could reasonably
visit, so, in addition to my tour of the Medoc, we drove out
Sunday to St. Emilion, my favorite among Bordeaux wines,
and also said to be the most scenic of the wine areas; here's
one near St. Emilion itself








The grape-picking machines they now use just pick from the
sides, leaving zillions of grapes to rot on the middle part of
the vine; you keep demand (prices) high by keeping supplies
low...

So we helped ourselves; yum, very sweet
and fruity, but not sans seeds; maybe I'll plant a
few










Another chateau; this one turned out to be a hotel/restaurant






At every intersection there are six more chateaux, in each
direction









After visiting St. Emilion the town, we also
managed to find the largest menhir in SW
France, La Menhir de Pierrefitte, about 5
meters tall










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