Ca'Bruzzo Winery tour

While Joel is off in Bulgaria becoming a bigamist, I am dumping my kids off and getting smashed at the local wineries. Just kidding... sort of. Here are some pictures from the winery tour I went on with the post travel office.

First, we went on a tour of the vineyards. This is a family-run, organic winery- no pesticides, no fertilizer, no irrigation. It's amazing anything grows here at all! They grow a few different types of grapes here, mostly purple ones. As you can tell, I am a real wine enthusiast now, with all the lingo down!

Of course, some old woman on the tour has to go and make an ass of herself and, by association, Americans, by asking the farmer if he's ever heard of these great Concord grapes that we have in the U.S., and why don't they make wine from those? They make a great jelly and grape juice! she says. I did learn something pretty cool- ALL of the grape vines in Europe are grafted onto American roots, due to a pestilence that attacks the vines; apparently one of our varieties is resistant.

Here is a close up of some of the grapes- beautiful!! They were very sweet, because they have been on the vine so long.

For the grand finale, the owner smoked a cigar while he played guitar and sang songs in Italian. We relaxed and ate cheeses and salami on wonderful bread and drank the wines. Who could ever get tired of this??