I get a monthly email from my French teacher’s website alerting me to interesting activities happening each month.
Strangely this one caught my eye – a wine-tasting event in Ampius featuring 300 wines and 66 winemakers.
So off we went to sample some varieties.
We paid for a ticket that allowed dégustation so when we arrived we were handed a little wine glass and then it was off to sample the produce.
There was a lot of choice.
These are wines from the Côte-Rôtie region which is on a hillside above the river. Apparently prices can be as steep as the hills.
In the end we settled for a few bottles of Condrieu from André François and some of Saint Joseph from Jean-Pierre Lezin.
Thrown to (the) Lyon 