Lundi de Pâques – a few photos from Touraine: Bourgueil and nearly Chinon

  Welcome sign at Saint-Patrice the eastern

 extremity of AC Bourgueil

Château de Minière

 

Even the rabbits are red in Bourgueil!

 Minière: Belgian chocolates and wine  (above and below)

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Château du Petit Thouars, AC Touraine – soon to be Chinon

 The impressive approach to the Château

We dropped into the Portes Ouvertes @Château de Petit Thouars to buy wine and chocolate cake:

 North face of the château

 Vineyard above and close to the château

 Sap rising on pruned shoot...

but vines seem to have hardly moved 

over the past eight/nine days 

but with fine weather forecast could see budding 

starting by the end of the week

 South face of the château

(above and below)

 Portes Ouvertes

 Choco Roi – one of the attractions @Les Portes Ouvertes 

 Sculptors working with tuffeau – the local limestone 

 Two sculptors and a guard dog...

 First brilliant day since we arrived on 18th March – detail of the château