I have recently visited a fantastic wine museum called Terra Vinea, near Narbonne in the South of France. The museum is part of a local wine co-operative, and they age some of their wines in their caves. The wine caves are down in an old mine, deep in amongst the mountains. The mines only shut in 1992, and since then a vast majority of the tunnels have been shut, and the rest have been restored.
We started our trip on a little train that took us up to the entrance which was located near the top of the mountain. Below you can see the beautiful sunset, and the typical Mediterranean landscape of the south of France.
To enter the caves we had to walk down the old mine shaft, you can't really tell from the photo but above we are walking quite steeply down in to it. And below is a photo taken from the bottom looking back up to the entrance.
Once we were inside the caves there was a light show which was very unexpected! But you can see that the caves are very special. This particular part of the caves is called the 'Cathedral' due to its very high pitch.
As you can see, some of the co-ops wine is stored here in barrels. As we walked around the other parts of the cave we could see more barrels. We then went back to the main part of the museum/co-operative to try their wines and in particular a 'Muscat Noel', which was a special Christmas Muscat that they were producing.
No comments:
Post a Comment