rathdowne cru blog

Its all about over…

Bonjour (or it should really be Gutten Tag),

We are sitting in the Qantas lounge in Frankfurt awaiting our midnight flight. While I am not looking forward to the experience I can certainly remember the good times. And there has been a lot since we last posted.

We drove from Beaune to Chablis where we meet with the great man Christian Moreau for a vineyard tour, tasting and lunch. The wines from 2006 are great and the 07s look really good to. The highlight was going to the top of Les Clos and looking out over Chablis.

Then later on, a barrel tasting of very young looking 07s with Bernard Raveneau and his daughter. Thankfully his daughter spoke good English because we were not yet speaking good French (still are not to be honest).

After a great tour, tasting and lunch at Domaine Michel Laroche we headed off for Paris for some well deserved R & R (or so I thought).

In two days we say the Notre Dame, the Lourve, walked up the Champs Elysses, under the Arc de Triomphe, through the Pantheon, had a guided tour of the Musee d’Orsay, walked up the Eiffel tower (and took a lift to the very top) plus somewhere along the way drank a bit too much and saw some place with a big red windmill and about a thousand people waiting to get inside.

We also spent about 30mins watching the traffic in Paris from our hotel window. If it was in fast forward and with the Benny Hill music it would be really marketable as a TV show. I also found out that it is quite normal for Mussells to come with tiny Crabs inside each shell in France. However it doesn’t taste very nice as they are crunchy little buggers. I’d recommend ordering them sans Crab. After that I was ready for some well deserved R & R.

There was then a few days in Champagne but we will fill you in on those later.

Au revoir,
Phil