It’s Monday 1/19. Friday in Paris I walked around the city, tried to walk all the way to the Eiffel Tower but didn’t make it. Stopped at the least touristy-looking place I could find, a little wine bar called l’Embouteillage.
This is the owner, Bobby. I had wine and cheese and stayed there about 3 hours speaking as well as I could with the owner and customers. When I arrived there were 5 men standing at the bar in the front, playing a game that involved rolling two little plastic pigs like dice, then determining your score based on how they landed. There didn’t seem to be a lot of rules, except that you had to accuse everybody else of cheating constantly. Afterwards, I was a bit too tired to go anywhere else. I walked through a small section of the Louvre then went back to the hotel.
That’s when the Jet-lag started to get me. I went to bed at 8 and woke up at midnight and couldn’t sleep the rest of the night.
I met up with the group and took the train to Colmar.
We tasted Rene Mure and Ehrhart and had a traditional Alsatian stew with Lamb, Pork, Beef, potatoes and whatnot, followed by salad, then cheese, then apple tart and some gewürztraminer eau de vie. I’m planning a heart attack sometime next week from the amount of cheese I’ve been eating. Yesterday we drove to Beaune, walked around the city for a minute, and tried wines from Albert Morot and Pommier. This morning, after breakfast we had wines from Domaine Marc Morey, then with lunch, two Givrys from Joblot. Last night was also the first night I’ve slept more than 4 hours, and I’m still catching up on my sleep. After our 4 course lunch I could have really used a nap, but I had just enough time to check my email before heading back out to dinner and the wines of Xavier Monnot. Now I’m entirely exhausted and sitting in the lobby of the hotel tasting calvados. At least I can sleep in tomorrow. There will be tasting notes and photos with this post when I have time, I just wanted to put this up so everybody knows what I’m doing.
