Today we went to two different Medoc region wineries. We started at Chateau Baudan and we finished off our day at Chateau Kirwan, which is pictured above. It was funny to get to compare and contrast these two places in a single day. Baudan is clearly the modest upstart, bottling wine for “bargain” shoppers, I […]
Lovely St. Emilion and my museum plan
Here in Bordeaux, we went to the Museum of Aquitaine, which tells the v-e-r-y l-o-n-g story of the history of Bordeaux from prehistoric times until now. There was a lot of information about Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of France from 1137 to 1152 who seems memorialized for being an outspoken, beautiful and complicated woman at […]
Day One of my life as a oenophile
Wines can be grouped into six main families: red, dry white, rose, sparkling wine, fortified wine and sweet wine. I learned this – and only this – from a sign in the Cite du Vin, a really famous wine museum in Bordeaux. My personal InfoBox/headset thing shut down after a minute or two – maybe […]
Oradour sur Glane
Today was the travel day I was most worried about back home in Seattle (in hindsight, yesterday’s train debacle day was the day I should have worried about the most, but hey…) We are now hauling Sam and Kris around with us and so anything I mess up disappoints 3 other people instead of just […]
