Category: Tour/Experience
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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
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Domaine Faively
We did just a little bit of touring stone Romanee-Conti and Clos Veugeot and then headed to our tasting at Domain Faiveley. Since there was a bit of rain, everyone was sent home except for our hosts so again we were literally the only ones there at the entire property, which admittedly gave a more
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Vosne Tasting Club
Another great day of tasting. First we had an appointment at the Vosne Tasting Club where we were literally the only ones there. They have this beautiful tasting room in a cellar where they serve and sell wines that we’ll not easily find back home. We enjoyed all five of the wines we tasted I’m
