Bordeau Wine - Day 1

Fighting construction and morning traffic we arrive with only a few minutes to spare at Chateau Marquis d’Alesme in Marguax.  We are lucky.  This is a new facility, three years in the making and has just recently opened. Two very nice women conduct the tour and the tasting.

 

 

Our plans for lunch get completely buggered. We have a lunch reservation for noon.  We don't leave the left bank winery until noon and our next appointment is in St Emilion as is our restaurant reservation.  Between heavy traffic and not having a good address for the restaurant we never make it there. We have only time for fast food before working hard to find our next appointment.

Whenever we ask directions we're told we can't go there since its not open to the public. Please just tell us how to find the bloody place!

We eventually find Chateau Angelus, one of the two or three best properties in St. Emilion. It's another beautiful property with architectural attention to detail.



 

 

It's nearly four when we depart for our new hotel located to the south in the middle of the Bordeaux vineyards.

 

Our reserved room is on the second floor.  We take a first floor room for the first evening.  Tomorrow we must go back up to the second floor room since they are full and they cannot offer this better room to others because of the overlapping reservations. We have a simple dinner and drinks at the hotel.