I would be remiss in my blogging about France I didn't mention the wine. Ah, the wine! I'm not a wine aficionado at all, but I do like it! The Loire region makes some fantastic wines that are sold all over the world. We did several tastings throughout the trip.
So I mentioned before about the caves in the hills behind many of the Chateaux? They have caves dotted all over the countryside and use them for wine storage. The environment is suitable for storage because the caves are cool, consistent temperatures and consistent humidity. Here is one that we visited just a little west of the town Chinon.
One area inside had some very OLD bottles in storage - I think they were maybe for show mostly, but that's ok.
A room full of barrels aging.
Wine at a tasting table - this one was delicious!! Almost so sweet though that it was like a dessert wine. I didn't care and bought two bottles to bring back to London. Yummy!!
We drove through some beautiful country during the entire weekend and saw vineyards...
And LOTS of sunflowers! As a matter of fact, we made multiple roadside stops to get pictures of the beautiful sunflower fields - they kept not cooperating and sagging towards the ground because it was raining. But we finally got a sunny day!!
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