One Thing leads to ...

 

Two or three weeks ago we went with a group of friends for a meal down at the local campsite.  Over the course of the meal, and a couple of glasses of a nice wine, one couple invited us to go to the vineyard where the wine is produced for a tasting session.

This 'chateau', in the same family for 14 generations, is run by a lovely lady and her Polynesian husband.  They have 32 hectares of vines which produces some 100,000 bottles of wine!  There is a definite Polynesian influence on some of the wine labels and the emblem of the vineyard.

We started our tour in a large space where the 'cuves', the fermenting tanks, were a background to a very eclectic exhibition of Art.

After an explanation of the wine-making process we started tasting, 5 different reds which all had differing qualities.  We ended with a very 'interesting' slightly sweet white.  Some of you will know that we don't really like white wine, but we left with 6 bottles of the red which suited us best ... and 6 bottles of the white!