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After leaving the French riviera, we headed north for a more cultural part of the trip: wine tasting! Not that we hadn't sampled wine along the way, but at this point it was turning into the goal of our days... We headed for Burgundy and found a hotel room in a village called Levernois.
The following day we headed into Beaune and rented bikes to explore the surrounding countryside. Our itinerary reads like a winelist: Pommard, Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet... An easy ride with gorgeous scenery, in the middle of harvest season.
The morning we mostly rode our bikes, until lunch time where we found a nice vineyard for a picnic. The bottle we had was very nice, especially given the conditions we were having it in, but at least it was chilled. For desert we had Burgundy grapes from a Grand Cru. The afternoon turned out to be more focused on tasting (and buying) wines. We stopped at the Olivier Leflaive winery in Puligny-Montrachet, Les Caves Delagrange in Meursault and the coop-store in Pommard. Every stop it got harder to ride in a straight line, but also we were starting to run out of places to put the bottles we were picking up. Eventually, after I picked up 2 cases in Pommard we left all the bottles at the coop and came back the following day with the car.
