Wednesday, May 25, 2011

The first day

Today, we met the vintner Jean-Sebastian at 8h00 where he gave us our job of cutting away unwanted vine. Rather than explaining more, I took some before and after pictures:

After 4 hours of this, we went to Laurence's for lunch. We then had the rest of the day off, so I took a nap in the hammock overlooking the domain and took these photos I've posted.

Then we were invited for our formal welcome dinner with both of our hosts, the vintner and his wife. They made a traditional Swiss dish, which involved melting a half a wheel of cheese by putting it on this strange contraption (kind of like a kebob roaster) when heated the flat side of the cheese, then every minute or so, scrape off the melted part onto someone plate. We passed around a big bowl of boiled potatoes and it was delicious. It was great seeing them all without their work or children. 6 bottles of wine and 4 hours later we called it a night.

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