Category: Tour/Experience
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Real Minero
Here we learned a lot about their conservation efforts to educate, promote, and preserve agave in Oaxaca. There are over 270 varietes of agave of which 60 or 70 are available in Oaxaca. Tequila uses a mono-culture of blue agave, but mezcal can use many different varieties of agave, the most common one being espadin…
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Portozuelo
This was our location for our dinner where we used all the ingredients we purchased earlier in the day. We split our group into 3 teams – Andrea was on the team that worked on tamales and I was on the team that worked on the mole negro. Another team worked on another mole that…
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Central de Abastos de Oaxaca
after a great dinner yesterday at Casa Oaxaca, we were surprised to find out Chef Alex was going to be joining us for the entire day! He talked to us a bit about what kind of dishes we wanted. He ended up just building a mental list of everything to shop for based on that.…
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Criollo (cooking class)
Cooking lesson to make salsa, tortilla, quesadilla, tostadas, and more. Placing tortillas onto the comal is a lot harder than it looks! https://criollo.mx/
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Cervecería Teufel
http://www.cerveceriateufel.com/https://www.facebook.com/teufel.cerveceria/
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Quesos Paty
A great experience seeing artisanal cheese making and a delicious lunch
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Outstanding In The Field – Heath Ceramics
It may seem odd that we are tagging Heath Cermaics for our meal, but this was our second dinner with Outstanding in the Field and Andrea was very interested because of the venue since we own so much Heath dishware. The event was supposed to be outside, but due to the atmospheric river bringing somewhat…
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La Moutarderie Edmond Fallot
Back in Beaune, we did the tour at the Edmond Fallot Moutarderie (mustard mill). Learned a good amount about mustard making and we got to make our own Dijon mustard by grinding mustard seeds, adding salt, vinegar, and water. We then did a bit of a tasting with a few of the different mustards (Dijon,…
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Chateau Meursault
Morning was tour and tasting at Chateau Meursault (located in Mersault of course). We tasted 8 wines (3 whites and 5 reds) four of which were premier cru and one grand cru). I liked the Pommard the best since it was so full bodied and tasted of dark fruit and Andrea’s favorite was the Corton…
