A trip to France is just not complete without a visit to a vineyard, and that goes double if you're doing a road-trip and are able to buy some of the wine to bring home with you. It's wonderful to create a nice memory of the place where the wine you drink months later came from, to remember the beauty of the surrounding area, the passionate wine makes themselves and the charm of wine cellars such as this one, at Domaine de la Chevalerie. Once a mine where they quarried stone, the caverns that were left behind turned out to be the perfect place to store and age wine. They have just the right temperature all year around and they're humid too, just the way the wines like it. Not to mention how beautiful they are.
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Nice accentuating that lighting! Tasty shot (groan - ha). ;-)
ReplyDeleteInteresting wine cave. Is it really that light? Did you get to taste a variety of wines?
ReplyDeleteYes, it is. They lit it that way because they were very much aware of how beautiful it would look, and yes, we tasted their wines (they're very nice) and bought several vintages too.
DeleteWood and stone... such a nice composition :0 MadamMtnLion
ReplyDeleteThank you, it was a beautiful place :)
DeleteWow, amazing! It sure it lite up nicely and I love the way the old mine is carved out. Very colorful stone. I bet it was wonderful to see it all in person.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly was. I've never been to a wine cellar like that before :)
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