We finally got to the wine part of the trip today. Well, we’ve actually been cracking bottles regularly in our room each night, but today we actually got to do a proper degustation in Vouvray, just east of Tours.
Moncontour was the first we hit. Ick. The tasting room was, at first, closed. The woman spoke little english and did even less in french to show off her wines or take us through a proper tasting. She basically asked for us to point to something on the list, she’d crack it and leave it to us to decide if it was any good. It was okay. We bought a couple bottles, out of guilt for having wasted her time.
5 seconds down the road I found the winery that Rick Steves recommended to visit, Marc Bredif. What a difference in approach. A formal, beautiful tasting room with bilingual guides who asked a few questions about our tastes and then took us on a fabulous journey through dry bubble to aged chenin blanc wrapping up with a super sweet nectar. We bought 2 bottles here, wishing we hadnt bought the 2 before.
They even let us wander their caves underneath the winery where I shot this video telling more of the story:
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