For the next two nights we are staying in a chateau about 20 minutes from the heart of champagne country. After checking into our room with all modern conveniences, in spite of the chateau dating from the 11th century, we checked out the local village. With just one restaurant and bar (other than at the chateau), it still boasts four champagne producers.
Later we dined at the restaurant downstairs. There were supposed to be 4 courses - entree, main, fromage and desert. But we started off with some tiny savoury things, then bread, and with the little bits and pieces between courses it seemed like we had about 4 deserts. And the fromage! It came out on a huge trolley along with Taylors 1,10 and 20 year old port. The young lad, who looked all of about 12, rattled through the different types of cheeses. There must have been at least 15.
The best thing though, was choosing the bottle of champagne. No choice really, when we found one called Carpe Diem which was produced just around the corner!
Not sure if the flooding in southern France has made the news - pretty bad! Close to where we drove through a week or so! Makes us think the cloud we have often encountered is not so bad after all.
;-) Ann-a-Gram
No comments:
Post a Comment