Miles and miles of wine...
A small part of Putin's personal collection...
Part of Goebels' now undrinkable, confiscated haul (it didn't all make it to Moldova for some reason...)
In the words of the chorus from Die Fledermaus:
"Here's health to your Highness, King Champagne..."
Getting ready to sample delicious food and wine...
Today I accompanied Gavin to work. He had meetings at the offices of the local registration system. We have just arrived back, 7 hours later, with a gifted haul of 2 bottles of champagne, a bottle of very nice cognac, 2 bottles of wine and some red roses. Oh, and a bag of apples. At the office, we were given a little 'snack' which looked more like a wedding breakfast, accompanied by red wine. white wine and champagne. This was before the scheduled afternoon visit to Moldova's Cricova winery (53 underground hectares of it) and apart from seeing Putin's and Goebels' wine collections, and watching the champagne bottling system in operation, were given another lunch accompanied by 5 wines (2 white and 3 red, and 3 champagnes (white, red and pink). I can't remember ever having a day like that at school. So here we are back at the hotel and I blog and poor Gavin has to work. His aide-memoire might be the more interesting for it...
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