This morning in Annecy was packed with action - an early morning walk along the canal, a walk to our favorite cheese shop to pick up some cheese and a bottle of wine for lunch, followed by a 6-8 mile walk along the lake.
By the time we finished the walk, we were as hungry as these two ducks:
At the cheese shop, we talked to the owner, whom we had met last year, and left some cheese from Maine when we arrived at the start of the trip. He thought the cheese, from Hahn's End in Phippsburg, was excellent. And the wine we bought today, a 2008 Chignin-Bergeron from Denis et Didier Berthollier, was amazing. Chignin-Bergeron is a small appellation in the Savoie which only has white wines from the Roussanne grape variety, which is one of the noble grape varieties of the northern Rhone.
We had a couple of goat cheeses with the wine at lunch -- one was from the Savoie, and one was from Burgundy, which we had bought at a market earlier in the trip. Links for the wine producer (in French only) and Burgundy cheese producer are listed below:
http://www.chignin.com/
http://www.chevres.com/
Cheese and wine indeed boost up any day. Your post is really enjoyable to read, love it, thanks for sharing
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