Saturday, August 15, 2009

Saint-Antonie-Noble-Val

On Saturday, August 15th, we went for another 90 minute drive north in the same Le Lot region we've gone to now a few times and saw another cute little medieval French town, Saint Antonin Noble Val. It seems like we've seen a Lot (pun there) of these type of towns lately. I'm starting to take pics with a snobbish attitude. I have Randi at my side reading one of our travel books and I'll say "ok, where's the cathedral?...how old?...any gargoyles?...if ya see an old guy with french bread in his hands, walkin up a really steep cobblestone street, let me know". But Saint Antonin Noble Val proved to be a beautiful little town in it's own right.

On the way back we drove through the Gaillac wine region and went to two tastings. One was at the Manoir de L'Emmeillle which since visiting there we found out that it's for sale for a cool 3.2 mill. The vigneron there Charles Poussou was very nice, helping us with our wine selection and our french. He corrected Randi repeatedly on how to say "deux". It seems simple but it's really not. Before leaving the Gaillac region we parked on the side of some little deserted road and cracked open one of the bottles we bought. We didn't have anything else to do, so we walked through some of the vines, eating and drinking the grape. It was another
bonne jour in southern France.