Our first day started with a visit to Chateau de Cazaneuve where we were greeted by the count and countess of the castle. We had a brief tour of the chateau, then were treated to a sumptuous lunch with wine pairing. This area near Cadillac is known for Sauternes which are sweet white wines. Sweet wine is not something I enjoy but the lunch was very good, especially dessert!
Our next stop was Chateau Myrat where we again had a brief tour of part of the chateau, then met with one of the owners. Her family has been making wine since the 1500's! She showed us a pressing room where they still had the wooden vats where people would stomp on the grapes to extract the juice. The ceiling beams in the pressing room and in the wine cellar were huge and looked like they were probably 500 years old. We saw two river otters in the small stream that runs along their back garden :-)
Our second day began with sailing on the river, passing many lovely houses and cute little fishing huts called carrelet. The carrelet is perched up on stilts due to the high and low tides and each has a fishing net hanging from the back. The weather was nice so it was pleasant sailing too.
In the afternoon we stopped at Fort Medoc which looked like a really cool place but we had little time to look around because we had to board the buses for a winery tour. Our group was going to the winery of La Tour Carnet. We had a very nice lady who guided us through part of the chateau and did a tasting as well. I have to say that I was very embarrassed by the behavior of one of the ladies on our tour group. We were shown into the study which held a very old desk which had equally old books and ledgers on it. One woman decided to flip through the pages of two of the books! These things looked like they could fall apart if you weren't careful. I couldn't believe it when she decided to open the second one, but she got taught a lesson because a big moth flew out of the book and scared her. It serves her right for messing around with valuable old things that didn't belong to her!
Our second day began with sailing on the river, passing many lovely houses and cute little fishing huts called carrelet. The carrelet is perched up on stilts due to the high and low tides and each has a fishing net hanging from the back. The weather was nice so it was pleasant sailing too.
In the afternoon we stopped at Fort Medoc which looked like a really cool place but we had little time to look around because we had to board the buses for a winery tour. Our group was going to the winery of La Tour Carnet. We had a very nice lady who guided us through part of the chateau and did a tasting as well. I have to say that I was very embarrassed by the behavior of one of the ladies on our tour group. We were shown into the study which held a very old desk which had equally old books and ledgers on it. One woman decided to flip through the pages of two of the books! These things looked like they could fall apart if you weren't careful. I couldn't believe it when she decided to open the second one, but she got taught a lesson because a big moth flew out of the book and scared her. It serves her right for messing around with valuable old things that didn't belong to her!
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