2008 Elderhostel outing

Day 4, Monday: Cooking demo, field trip through Mâconnais

As Libellule proceeds upstream from Trévoux, some of us hang out in the lounge while others attend Mo’s cooking demonstration.

  • Monday’s agenda
  • Joe makes eveything shipshape while Marc steers.
  • house and hills
  • During a rainy spell, Jordan and Fran read in the lounge.
  • Theresa reading in the lounge
  • Bruce stays dry in the lounge.
  • Lois and Bruce share an aqueduct joke.
  • Mo shows how he prepares Boeuf Bourgignon.
  • Mo answers questions.
  • Cristi made lots of notes.
  • Jack in the lounge
  • Bob in the lounge
  • Harriet in the lounge
  • We traversed a lock, which here is shown nearly full.
  • The lock’s closed downstream gate holds the rising water.
  • After exiting the lock, Libellule passes under a bridge.
  • Joe keeps Libellule shipshape.
  • Stacy announces lunch.
  • Françoise describes the wines for lunch.
  • one of the wines for lunch
  • the other lunch wine
  • Joanne in the dining room
  • Ben shows Bruce a couple of his handmade pens.

After lunch we dock at Mâcon.

  • Michael Pattison not only drives the bus but keeps Libellule supplied.
  • a huge mural in Mâcon
  • Château de Pierreclos (passed on the bus)
  • a Mâconnais church
  • Mâconnais countryside
  • view of Mâcon

For our second dégustation, we visit Vins Auvigue in Charnay-les-Mâcon to sample their Pouilly Fuissé.

  • Vins Auvigue offers wine tasting to the public.
  • old wine press, new bottles
  • introductions at Vins Auvigue
  • Monsieur Auvigue and Françoise
  • M. Auvigue enthuses about his Pouilly-Fuissé.
  • M. Auvigue shows us his fermentation tanks.
  • M. Auvigue in his wine cellar
  • stirring up the lees
  • Françoise adds her explanation.
  • M. Auvigue prepares to pour.
  • Finally we taste!
  • Paul tastes a glass of Pouilly-Fuissé.
  • Jack assesses the wine’s color.

Then it's time to return to Libellule for dinner—and more wine!

  • Each dinner’s napkins are folded differently, and always elegantly.
  • This dinner’s wines include Pouilly-Fuissé.
  • Stacy desribes the courses to come.
  • Kate
  • the standard three-glass place setting
  • Moulin-à-Vent des Hospices 2005
  • Pouilyy-Fuissé 2001