More shopping (wine and chocolate) in Provence
Cindy, you have no idea how right you are. We had to visit a supermarket today so that Hope & Pam, as well as Rosa and also Sarah could buy some extra luggage to carry home all their shopping!!!
We started the day by drinking wine!!!! Well, visit of Chateau Neuf du Pape village and of course visit of a cellar before the tasting of three Chateu Neuf du Pape wine, The very famous Cote du Rhone.
Linda, Sarah and Sue are very serious abut the swirling, an important step in the tasting.
A bottle in the US is at least $80 when it is only 30 euros here (about $45). Everyone bought as much as they could which is three bottles per person. Hope and Pam maxed out.
After all this wine, we needed some food. Sarah was wondering how she will finish her “little” salad.
After lunch a little dessert was needed. Why not some chocolate tasting? We met with Stephane, the chocolate maker at Castellain in Chateau Neuf du Pape for a little demonstration on how to make chocolate. We kept asking him questions and therefore got many more samples that we were supposed to.
Not sure the group will appreciate this picture on the Internet but I couldn’t resist.
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October 16th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
What a cute group we are! I’ll let everyone know our hairnet picture has been published on the blog.
October 17th, 2009 at 8:18 am
I knew you would enjoy it…..:)