Wine Tasting Part One

Still a little tired.
Breakfast has its highlights in the range of home made jams – cherry, blackberry and the fave – rene claude, a type of small yellow plum.

Head off to the town of Sancerre, visit Alphonse Mellot, his wines are super but I’m on a budget and they are a little expensive– like 6 cuvees of Sancerre that we never see here, don’t buy anything. Oh well. Town is mad old – like 1300s.

Also visit a little producer, Pierre someone (fuck I’m bad with names, I’ll check it) – I get given 2 bottles, one of each of his cuvees of Sancerre! Sweeeeeet quay perks paying off already.
Home for lunch & more swimming

Ratatouille w lamb then a blackberry tart for Lunch.

Off to a small producer in the arvo – tasting room is in a tiny old school building
5 rows of vines out the front, cute old lady rattles on about her wines
Purchase first magnum of wine for 10euros….absurd.

Back in Paris we have some Cidre at Lea’s house before heading out to eat at the restaurant she used to work at, J’Go. The name is a play on the name of a leg of lamb – gigeau.
Nb I have just put on jeans that used to require a belt….no longer ;)

We have foie gras ☺, pate made from pig with cornichons, magret du canard on onion jam, ducks hearts and this amazing ham from the south west, made from black pigs. We drink Corbieres and this wicked chardonnay/sauvignon blend from Gascony.
To get home we catch a taxi – “Paris by Night” (a Parisian exprssion designed simply to encapsulate the joy of seeing their city in the evening, from the stillness of a taxi) – the tour is amazing. Rue de Tivoli, the Louvre, The Opera House, The Senate, the Seine.