点评:Our tour of the main wine-producing areas of the Loire Valley continued with Stage 4: Sancerre to Amboise (Day 5 in France). We were now based in Amboise on our second day here.
We had purchased wine here way back in 2017 during our month-long ‘grand tour’ of France. Back then we bought several cases here of what we had discovered was some very fine wine. Today our return visit was to buy only three bottles of their delicious ‘Château de Montdomaine’ Sauvignon Blanc. We had already bought three bottles in Sancerre and three more in Pouilly-sur-Loire. Our plan was to then buy wine in Saumur and Clisson to reach our allowance of 48 bottles of still wine.
We had already checked opening-times here during our walk the day before. Today we visited again to taste the wine and then buy. After our tasting we sat outside at their pavement tables and had a glass each of another wine, and it was difficult not to buy this as well. We had our plan however and this time we stuck to it … but it was certainly a challenge.
Whilst we were drinking our second wine we noticed a couple drinking orange wine from a bottle they had obviously purchased. We had seen orange wine before and had wondered what it was like. A third couple asked the two young women what the wine was like, and were kindly offered a small taste.
One of the cave staff passed, so we asked him about the wine. He explained that orange wine is made from white grapes that are left to ferment with the grape skins, similar to a red wine. This produces a wine which is orange coloured. The two women overheard our discussion and offered us a taster too.
To be brutally honest I disliked it, it didn’t have a bouquet: it had a smell. It had a rather agricultural taste. It was the colour of wee, by someone who was massively dehydrated.
翻译:我们对卢瓦尔河谷主要葡萄酒产区的游览继续进行,进入第四阶段:从桑塞尔到昂布瓦斯(在法国的第五天)。现在,我们在这里的第二天就住在昂布瓦斯。
早在 2017 年,我们在为期一个月的法国“大巡游”期间就在这里买过葡萄酒。当时,我们在这里买了几箱我们发现的非常好的葡萄酒。今天我们再次造访,只买了三瓶美味的“Château de Montdomaine”长相思。我们已经在桑塞尔买了三瓶,在卢瓦尔河畔普伊买了三瓶。我们的计划是,然后在索米尔和克利松买酒,以达到我们 48 瓶静止葡萄酒的限额。
前一天散步时,我们已经查看了这里的开放时间。今天我们再次来这里品尝葡萄酒,然后购买。品尝之后,我们坐在外面的人行道桌旁,每人喝了一杯另一种葡萄酒,很难不买下这款酒。然而,我们有计划,这次我们坚持了下来……但这确实是一个挑战。
当我们喝第二瓶酒时,我们注意到一对夫妇在喝橙酒,这瓶酒显然是他们买的。我们以前见过橙酒,很好奇它是什么味道。第三对夫妇问这两个年轻女人这种酒是什么味道,他们好心地让他们尝了一小口。
一位洞穴工作人员路过,所以我们问他这种酒怎么样。他解释说,橙酒是用白葡萄酿造的,这些白葡萄与葡萄皮一起发酵,类似于红葡萄酒。这样酿出来的酒是橙色的。这两个女人无意中听到了我们的讨论,也让我们尝了一口。
说实话,我不喜欢它,它没有香气:它有气味。它有一种相当农耕的味道。它的颜色就像尿液的颜色,是一个严重脱水的人酿造的。