wine fair

today was the wine fair – 300 independent vineyards presenting their wines in a big exhibition space. our friend, the macon wine producer, in whose rental house we had stayed when jj was first born and who we had reconnected with on our trip through burgundy in august, had sent us free tickets. we arrived around 5pm and people were coming out of the show with handcarts piled with cases of wine. “wow”, i thought, “they really came prepared – bringing their handcarts. if the show were well organized they’d have a stand selling handcarts”. in fact, as we walked in, there was a stand selling handcarts! the wine was all from small independent vineyards and a lot of the prices were very good. each booth was marked by color signifying the type of wine based on region, ie. burgundy, bordeaux, sancerre etc. there were too many booths and too many types of wine. i decided to focus on bordeaux wines, and then reduced the field to st.emilion bordeaux and then further narrowed it to st. emilion grand cru wines. i really can’t taste more than a few different wines before my tastebuds get confused. we did some tastings and then went to our friend and bought some cheap whites. it does make sense, though to come here and taste a bunch and then buy a few cases to last for a while. Print this post