Cruise Day 4 - Saturday – Fort Medoc
There were two tours in the morning, a guided cycling tour of the Medoc or a coach tour of the Medoc, both with a wine tasting. The Medoc is a very famous wine region and the small Pauillac appellation has three of the five 1st Growths. These prestigious wineries don’t take visitors, so we drove past them stopping to take pictures.
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| Ch Lagrange |
Our visit and tasting was at Ch Lagrange, a 3rd Growth in St Julian. The tour was good with an excellent guide at the Chateau.
Lunch was a barbecue on the sundeck. Food ran out, when I asked for chicken chef had to search through discarded carcasses to see what meat he could scrape from bones. The Executive Chef was cutting the three or four remaining baked potatoes into 4 wedges and covering them in sour cream to make them look bigger. There was no lettuce or tomatoes left, and other empty bowls and no bread. Though some additional bread appeared, the salads weren’t restocked. Not luxury, Scenic.
The afternoon was free, and there was a serendipitous event. The ship was moored at Fort Medoc, an old moated castle and in its central green was a sheepdog trial, sheep shearing, and stalls selling local goods and snacks. We spent time looking at how the competing shepherds used commands to get their dog to herd a flock of sheep into various pens. Among the stall was one selling hand knitted items. Joan bought a cheeky small dog for Jack.
After an early dinner we all got in coaches to be taken to Ch d’Argassac where we were greeted with a glass of fizz and taken, not into the splendid Chateau, but a neighbouring hall which Joan thought was the barrel cellar, for a 50-minute concert by a quartet comprising two violins, one cello and one clarinet. The repertoire had music from the classics to Gershwin.
The boat stayed at Fort Medoc overnight.
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