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La Fête de la Saint-Martin



The festival of the Saint-Martin, traditionally,
is basically a pig-killing festival.

People in the Jura region celebrate the end of agricultural year
by killing pigs and eat every single thing those pigs have to offer.

Yummy.

Instead of that meaty carnivore fest,
we chose to go to the wine festival here.
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The festival was held in Peissy.
It takes about 20 minutes from Geneva to this winery village.

Local train, then the free shuttle, and there we were.
There are seven wineries in this quint village,
and when we purchase the souvenir wineglass,
we can taste all the new wines that are ready to be drunk.

Once, I had an atrocious experience with wine in the past.
I was on the airplane, and I decided to have some white wine.
I'm light-weight, and I don't need to drink, but I thought,
"Hey, it's free, I might as well get my money's worth!!"
A dangerous thought...

It must be the high elevation, from less than half a glass of wine,
I got seriously sick.
Immobile, I just sat in my seat feeling very cold yet sweating.
I wanted to lie down but, I was in a crowded coach section.

After that incident, I swore to myself I'd never drink again.

Well, after a year, that vow is completely forgotten.
Still, I was somewhat anxious about this festival.
"What if I get sick like that and Steven has to carry me home?"

Que sera sera...

As we got off the bus, we beelined to a nearby winery.
I know what I wanna try. Sweet dessert wines.

This is the first wine I tried.
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A really good dessert wine. Sweet, fragrant, a little spicy,
and a clean after-taste.

I really liked it, but since it was the first one I tried that day,
I wasn't ready to commit. After 2 other wines, we moved on.

In this winery, I tried this.
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It's called 'le mutin 2007' Nice warmth, it tasted like a porto wine.
They also served wild boar stew.
Although it looked good, I was repulsed by the wild-boar-ness of it.
So we left.

We didn't find a wine we liked in this next winery, but I like this.
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An old-timey grape press. Cute, no?

It was a rainy gray day, but strolling down a village road
with a glass of wine in your hand is deliciously decadent.
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(or deliciously trashy??)

By this point, I lost track of how many wines I tasted.
I need to eat something! And conveniently, we found this.
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Serve-yourself walnuts. Nice! In this winery, I sampled this wine.
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A bit too sweet for me and it was almost like grape juice.
I liked it, though.
There were samples of wines still in the process of maturing,
one of them tasted like cheese to me!!
Maybe my palate was getting numb...

I was getting too silly and sleepy simultaneously,
it was time to go. I didn't wanna burden Steven, literally.

We went back to the first winery to buy the first wine we tried.
It's the winner for us ; ) The wine with a name too hard to pronounce.

On the way, we saw this estate.
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Something tells me it's good to be in the wine business...

Predictably, I crashed on the coach soon after arriving home.
Only if I had more alcohol-processing enzymes...


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by yas-unprescribed | 2009-11-10 22:59 | 食/Food

気まま我儘に生きるYasの人生を、正直率直に、そして飾らなく語るブログです。 This is a blog where Yas talks about his life in a foreign land seen through his bizarre and frivolous, yet sincere eyes
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