Thursday 7.10.2008
We had an interesting lecture this morning from a Swiss professor who was working to profile wines based on a matrix of acid/tannic and structure/soft. I’m not sure that these classification systems work outside of a spider plot, but always interesting to see these experiments. We tried a nice Chablis out of the gate, which was so nice because we did not get to try any Chablis in the region. I was pretty close to his data points for most wines, but thought very differently about many of the wines. Go figure. We then drove back to Dijon for lunch.
We went to Ikea with Nicole and Andrew, for lunch and looking around. They have more that just Swedish meatballs, and it was actually a quite nice lunch for a very good price, relatively speaking.
After lunch, we took the scenic route to the city of Beaune. It is a very touristy area, but we had fun. Toured another church, and found an incredible bookstore/wine shop that carried a tremendous selection of books about wine. Wow. Unfortunately, almost all were in French and all were very expensive. The wine shop had a few bottles of Domaine le Romaine Contee, topping out at 5,900 Euros. Wow. Maybe we will buy this to drink at the hostel tonight.
We had a pretty good dinner with Jeremiah, although the glasses of Chablis we ordered were corked. It’s a double edged sword to know about wine sometimes. A lot of the group went to a karaoke bar that night, but we were pretty tired and went back to the hostel. We started to try and plan a trip to a really neat lake in the Piedemonte region of northern Italy for this weekend. Will be challenging, but we’re going to give it a shot.
We had an interesting lecture this morning from a Swiss professor who was working to profile wines based on a matrix of acid/tannic and structure/soft. I’m not sure that these classification systems work outside of a spider plot, but always interesting to see these experiments. We tried a nice Chablis out of the gate, which was so nice because we did not get to try any Chablis in the region. I was pretty close to his data points for most wines, but thought very differently about many of the wines. Go figure. We then drove back to Dijon for lunch.
We went to Ikea with Nicole and Andrew, for lunch and looking around. They have more that just Swedish meatballs, and it was actually a quite nice lunch for a very good price, relatively speaking.
After lunch, we took the scenic route to the city of Beaune. It is a very touristy area, but we had fun. Toured another church, and found an incredible bookstore/wine shop that carried a tremendous selection of books about wine. Wow. Unfortunately, almost all were in French and all were very expensive. The wine shop had a few bottles of Domaine le Romaine Contee, topping out at 5,900 Euros. Wow. Maybe we will buy this to drink at the hostel tonight.
We had a pretty good dinner with Jeremiah, although the glasses of Chablis we ordered were corked. It’s a double edged sword to know about wine sometimes. A lot of the group went to a karaoke bar that night, but we were pretty tired and went back to the hostel. We started to try and plan a trip to a really neat lake in the Piedemonte region of northern Italy for this weekend. Will be challenging, but we’re going to give it a shot.
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