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| Wine Village - Burgandy Cote d'Or, France |
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| Statue in Wine Village - Burgundy, France |
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| Wine Village & Countryside - Burgundy Cote d'Or, France |
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| Pat & Wayne in Wine Cellar (Cave) - Burgundy |
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| Our Hotel in Nuits-Saint-Georges - Burgundy, France |
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| Cave Du Chateau Corton-Andre - Burgundy, France |
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| Main Square - Auxey-Duresses, Burgundy France |
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| Pat Thinks Big is Better - Burgundy, France |
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| Great French Food - Burgundy, France |
Burgundy Wine Road (Cote d’Or), France (6/16-19/2011) – Burgundy is very French and very charming! The towns and villages look like all the quaint photos you have seen complete with centuries of history.
The wines made in Burgundy are legendary for good reasons… they are wonderful! Growing predominantly Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes, they have perfected wine making over centuries knowing within yards what vineyards make the best wines. While driving through Burgundy's Cote d’Or we stopped for free wine tastings at many places (some famous) and learned that Pinot Noir can taste very different made with grapes grown on the other side of a stonewall. We also learned that the years 2005 and 2009 were good years for wines from Burgundy.
For several days we drove through the wine villages of Cote d-Or (Golden Hillside) with names such as Marsannay-la-Cote, Fixin, Vosne-Romanee, Gevrey-Chambertin, Vougeot with it amazing 12th-century wine chateau, Pommard, Auxey-Duresses, St-Romain, and Volnay. Our favorites were Nuits-Saint-Georges and Beaune. Beaune is beautiful (and, OK, here it is again… charming) with many wineries (great place to taste wines) and excellent examples of typical regional architecture. They have a place (Patriarch Pere et Fils) in Beaune to taste wines that has 3 million bottles stored in 2 miles of cellars under this town – you think they take wine seriously?
We
continued our French eating fest with a picnic in a park with bread,
cheese, and other treats purchased in an open market. Some of Burgundy's regional
classics like beef bourguignon and cassolette d’escargots, followed
with a cheese plate made a delicious dinner into an event. One night we
had a dinner of French pastries, chocolates, and wine – yes, we were bad
but it was good!
We visited the Hotel-Dieu des Hospices de Beaune that operated as a hospital for the poor from 1443 to 1971. It is truly an amazing place with a beautiful glazed tile roof built after the Hundred Year War that left Beaune devastated and 75% of its inhabitants destitute.
With no reservations, we found rooms for each night
in interesting places such a classic French square over a bar and in
the garden of a 300-year old French manor house on the edge of town. Tourist information centers were very helpful.
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