size A chore this weekend chore whose weight continues to get worse, and we've always tried to accommodate with Getaway comforting, to "go pill" ... Some events to celebrate, and I pass you the details, because at the Alter Michel when we celebrate, it's hard, we love "iron plates" and finally these are just excuses to live life differently.
So Saturday night, boarding the Medoc. Kythera a new genus, which happily plays the role of Bacchus of Aphrodite and the pages are lined sandy side Gironde, squares and bathed in the thick mud that is characteristic of the estuary.
But for us it's always nice to go "in front" where the ocean roars, and the side where the Garonne flows, since our waters, those that pass under our windows, from, in turn, Dordogne.
We made a stop at Vespers Vertheuil eighteenth whose abbey is built around one of the few Romanesque churches of this land a little away from roads Medieval. This magnificent architectural ensemble is adorned with two steeples, common formula in the churches of the East, but uncommon in Guyenne. No main facade, but on the south side opens a beautiful portal of inspiration saintongeaise Unfortunately, some slain in the seventeenth by the addition of a decor masks, which come Snack after dizzying elders of the Apocalypse, starting many more regulatory than the 24!
It also admires in an ambulatory vaulting very rare: instead of being a kind of crown that winds along the axis rounded, each chapel is attached to the passage by a radiant cradle forming trapezoidal plan which succeed with regularity. At the entrance of the choir rises an elegant Gothic building up respectable and is the mystery of the place: too high to be a chair, too small to accommodate an organ, the "monument" offers to the curiosity listed without further explanation. I dedicate the baptismal font in the shape of giant fluted and carved into a huge stone monolith in the fifteenth century Around the Well, a specialist in this kind of furniture clerical.
Alter had organized the trip and I'll spare you the details of the menu: a renowned chef rampant in these places until last year, copiously "macaroni." Called to higher destinies, * Paris as an Asian, he sold his business to his "first", which continues a traditional but inventive cuisine, which we very pleased the taste buds.
But what makes the essential charm of the place, planted in the middle of prestigious vineyards, is the agreement "food and wine, which according to shatter a perfectly orchestrated a sommelier full of tricks and daring: he made us discover a Médoc white, and almost lemony warning: a foie gras, that was unexpected yet welcome. This also allowed us to learn that these locally produced delicious white wines that are, of course, entitled to any label prestigious rankings are reserved Medoc reds. Bordeaux whites, therefore, easily and, faith michelaise, you leave a pleasant memory. The wines were crescendo throughout the meal and the final agreement, elegantly clad, amounted to a Chateau Lynch Bages 1988: it must be open to local hope to taste a wine of this age and this outfit, without finishing his life doing the dishes in the kitchens of the hotel!
* This is Thierry Marx, "have developed this" molecular cuisine, perhaps too bold for the Medoc vineyards and has neglected the banks of the Gironde sirens slant-eyed at the Mandarin Oriental ... a place that we will probably never get to find out!
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