I've become so accustomed to hauling
my camera around that even an afternoon without it has become a some
what scary event. Luckily,
Danielle
was prepared where I was not, and the following are her photos from an
afternoon we spent in the countryside touring one of Bordeaux appellations, Sauturn.
I am a
complete wine novice, so everything we learned today was new to me,
from the regions "noble rot", to the grape epidemic a few years past
when farmers turned to American root stock to save their crops.
Sauturn
was a special vineyard of sweet wine grapes, tiny, yellow and delicious
right off the vine. The grapes are left on the vine until they are the
size and texture of a raisin. This concentration of sugars makes for a
sweet, sweet wine, best paired, I think, with a salty cheese platter.
Though tasty, I still do not feel adequately equipped to properly taste a wine and determine its subtleties and tones.
This will change soon however, I hope to take a wine class soon, here in Bordeaux!
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| Sauturn grapes. Can you see them start to pucker near the top like raisins? |
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| The winery's owner, giving a tour of his vineyard. |
