Bordeaux

We finally made it to Bordeaux late September to meet up with Murray and Karen Scott from Loch Linnhe station, who had just had a week's cycling with Dave and Heather Lyon from Wangarei. The harvest had just started that week.

We headed out to the coast for a night at Cape Ferrat, which enabled us to take in lunch at La Corniche hotel...

...and visit the oyster shacks. The oyster season was in full swing.

We then headed inland to St Emillion and spent two nights at Logis de la Cadene in the "centre ville".

Of course, vino was never far from the menu....

The Chateau's are fantastic and we spent one day touring the Medoc.

Chateau Pichon Longueville....

Chateau Cos D'Estournal...

note the boxes of grapes being elevated into the winery.

Picking is surprisingly fast. These pickers were keeping three large tractors and trailers busy.

Chateau Petrus, arguably the best Bordeaux wine, has a very understated headquarters.

I don't know what it is, but I get a real sense of place and belonging when I am amongst the vines. Maybe it's my agrarian background, or could it be a more sinister dependence?