Sunday, June 05, 2005
This is what it’s all about!
Saturday evening we had an hour to kill before dinner, so I decided we were going for a bike ride… Gerwyn initially wasn’t too keen, but I pointed out that he’d been lying on the sofa reading/sleeping whilst I’d gone to the station to get guests, and he couldn’t lie on the sofa for the next hour too! So we hopped on our bikes and set off… we had a lovely ride up the hill behind Chisseaux, and then did a circuit back down into Chissay (the next village along) and then crossed over the River Cher and into a town called St Georges. It was about 6.45pm by this stage, and we were cycling through the main road of the village when we spotted a wine degustation place – or rather we spotted the up-turned barrel on the pavement, displaying various different wines, and a small door in the side of a stone wall! We ventured in, and I explained that we were out cycling and we didn’t have any money on us, but the lady gladly offered us the chance to taste some wines! So we had a chat with her tried a couple of whites, a rose and a couple of reds….all of which we liked! And then we thanked her, and teetered off on our bikes home!! Now, on Sunday, as we really did like the wines (particularly the whites which we’ve not been overly keen on so far), we went back to buy some ….she again offered us the chance to re-taste the wines, but we politely declined, and asked for what we wanted, and then she got out a little aperitif – rose wine mixed with pink grapefruit liqueur – very light and summery and delicious! – So we got a bottle of that too!! And then I asked her about these aperitifs; if it was something particular to the region, or her own speciality, and she explained that she makes various kir aperitifs: red wine with different red fruit liqueurs, white wine with lemon and martini – which we also tried as she had some - and she’s told us to keep coming back to try the other ones!!
Cycle for your supper!
We decided to risk the rather grey looking clouds and cycle into Montrichard for supper – it took us 20 minutes, along the straight, flat main road, but then as is typically in the sticks, we were rather limited on our choice of restaurants, the majority preferring to remain closed on Sundays and Mondays (or any other day that takes their fancy!!) until high-season. Nevertheless we found the dungeon restaurant: thankfully not actually in the castle dungeons, but just off the main square, near the river, and had a pleasant meal, and managed to cycle back in the dark!!
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Saturday evening we had an hour to kill before dinner, so I decided we were going for a bike ride… Gerwyn initially wasn’t too keen, but I pointed out that he’d been lying on the sofa reading/sleeping whilst I’d gone to the station to get guests, and he couldn’t lie on the sofa for the next hour too! So we hopped on our bikes and set off… we had a lovely ride up the hill behind Chisseaux, and then did a circuit back down into Chissay (the next village along) and then crossed over the River Cher and into a town called St Georges. It was about 6.45pm by this stage, and we were cycling through the main road of the village when we spotted a wine degustation place – or rather we spotted the up-turned barrel on the pavement, displaying various different wines, and a small door in the side of a stone wall! We ventured in, and I explained that we were out cycling and we didn’t have any money on us, but the lady gladly offered us the chance to taste some wines! So we had a chat with her tried a couple of whites, a rose and a couple of reds….all of which we liked! And then we thanked her, and teetered off on our bikes home!! Now, on Sunday, as we really did like the wines (particularly the whites which we’ve not been overly keen on so far), we went back to buy some ….she again offered us the chance to re-taste the wines, but we politely declined, and asked for what we wanted, and then she got out a little aperitif – rose wine mixed with pink grapefruit liqueur – very light and summery and delicious! – So we got a bottle of that too!! And then I asked her about these aperitifs; if it was something particular to the region, or her own speciality, and she explained that she makes various kir aperitifs: red wine with different red fruit liqueurs, white wine with lemon and martini – which we also tried as she had some - and she’s told us to keep coming back to try the other ones!!
Cycle for your supper!
We decided to risk the rather grey looking clouds and cycle into Montrichard for supper – it took us 20 minutes, along the straight, flat main road, but then as is typically in the sticks, we were rather limited on our choice of restaurants, the majority preferring to remain closed on Sundays and Mondays (or any other day that takes their fancy!!) until high-season. Nevertheless we found the dungeon restaurant: thankfully not actually in the castle dungeons, but just off the main square, near the river, and had a pleasant meal, and managed to cycle back in the dark!!
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