The View of the Montes Vineyard
Montes wines has a very spiritual philosophy to their wine making believing in Fung Shei, angels and the hundreds of barrels of their best wines sit in an ampitheatre with gregorian chants playing 24 hours a day as the wine ages in the barrels!
Ken and the red truck!
Our last wine tour of the day was at Clos Apalta. This is the winery that won winery of the year for 2008 from the magazine Wine Spectator. They were given #1 place in the top 100 wines of the world. After our personal tour of the winery we were able to taste the following year's vintage of the same wine - nothing like tasting $140 bottle of wine in a wine tasting - and that's the price at the winery! Looking in the stores and restaurants we seem to pay anywhere from 30 - 50 % more in Canada for the same wine.
We are now off to Mendoza in Argentina to find more great wine!
Looks like the weather is fantastic and you aren't having any problems following the local customs such as drinking wine. Love seeing the photos and the red truck is pretty cool!
ReplyDeleteI'm in Calgary now and showed Jared this photo -- he is totally jealous!!
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