Connecting with Cahors

We enjoyed our trip in April so well that we decided that this trip should touch on it somehow. So today we drove north into the Cahors wine region and visited Domaine de la Bérangeraie once again. In April, the vines were showing only some new growth - they were quite bare. This time, things were a lot different! When we got there, Marlène (who we spent time with before) was out in the vineyard with numerous others harvesting grapes by hand. Despite that, she took time out to explain to us what was going on and even let us try it out ourselves ... see below :-)

After assisting (!) with the vendange, we meandered back to Moissac stopping beside the 15th century church in Brassac for our usual picnic lunch: bread, wine, olives and cabecou, the wonderful raw milk goat's cheese which has quickly become our favourite. It was a lovely afternoon, and the countryside between the rivers Tarn and Lot is often quite beautiful.

Dinner tonight was back at the Restaurant des Récollets (where we had eaten on Thursday night), one of our best so far. We both had the 11,90€ menu starting with oeufs mimosa. Following that, Steve had tagliatelle au saumon and Susan had queue de lotte à la provençal. We both had gateau aux basques for dessert and a pichet of red house wine to drink.

Tonight, we're packing up for tomorrow's drive to Lodève which will be our longest day in the car - it will probably take us about 4 hours to get there, via the scenic route of course! The weather today was 2.0+.


Merlot grapes


La vendange at Domain de la Bérangeraie


Steve helps with la vendange


Grapes collected from the harvesters