点评:Our ‘wine-dash’ continued, a trip with one main aim: to return home with our full allowance of French wine.
We have, in all of our four visits to this attractive town of Amboise, bought wine from this town centre cave. The wine sold, and served, here is mostly from the Château de Montdomaine (the owners of this cave). La Cave has a pavement-patio area that operates as a comfortable wine bar, with a fabulous view of the Royal Chateau and the main central street. The cave is open for anyone to drink wine by the glass (or by the bottle) regardless of whether you want to buy to take away.
Our main aim today was to buy wine to take home to the UK. After very careful consideration, which was based on tastings, we chose a case (of six bottles) of the excellent “Callipyge”; a very well balanced dry and zesty Sauvignon Blanc. Although we had previously really enjoyed the lovely and well balanced Chenin Blanc, we had to make this difficult decision. So we chose carefully, always taking into account our duty free allowance, of 48 bottles, when taking wine home to the UK.
We did purchase two different wines by the glass, and this ultimately and certainly helped us make the right choice of wine for our tastes (which was the Callipyge). We felt most fortunate to take the last six bottles that the cave had in stock of the Callipyge 2024 vintage.
As stated the cave is a particularly attractive area to ‘sit and sip’ with that great view of the Royal Château. The service provided by the cave manager was excellent, his knowledge and very good English helped us with our choices.
翻译:我们的“葡萄酒之旅”继续进行,这趟旅程只有一个主要目标:带着满满一瓶法国葡萄酒回家。
我们四次造访迷人的昂布瓦兹小镇,每次都从镇中心的这个酒窖买酒。这里出售和供应的葡萄酒大多来自蒙多梅城堡(酒窖的主人)。酒窖设有一个铺砌的露台区域,可用作舒适的酒吧,可以欣赏到皇家城堡和中央大街的壮丽景色。酒窖对所有人开放,您可以按杯(或按瓶)享用葡萄酒,无论您是否想购买带走。
我们今天的主要目标是买些葡萄酒带回英国。经过仔细的品鉴和仔细斟酌,我们选择了一箱(六瓶)优质的“Callipyge”;这是一款口感均衡、干型且风味浓郁的长相思。虽然我们之前就很喜欢口感醇厚、平衡性极佳的白诗南,但我们不得不做出这个艰难的决定。因此,我们谨慎选择,在带葡萄酒回英国时始终考虑到我们48瓶的免税限额。
我们确实按杯购买了两款不同的葡萄酒,这最终无疑帮助我们做出了符合我们口味的葡萄酒(那就是Callipyge)。我们非常幸运地带走了酒窖库存中最后六瓶Callipyge 2024年份葡萄酒。
正如前文所述,酒窖是一个特别适合“坐下来小酌”的地方,可以欣赏到皇家城堡的壮丽景色。酒窖经理的服务非常出色,他的知识和流利的英语帮助我们做出了选择。