Day 16: cruising the Chateaux, vineyards and villages of St-Émilion

Just a really cruisy day as we start to draw this holiday to a close.

We rode the back streets and lanes of the Saint-Émilion area. Past magnificent Chateaux, wind mills, churches, tractors pulling trailers loaded with grapes and workers in the fields harvesting. At one stage the road was so thick with the juice of the grapes you could hear the tyres sticking to the road.

We would have liked to stay another night in Saint-Émilion as it is a big celebration of the harvest tomorrow night and the town has been booked out for some time. Oh well.

The afternoon brought the sipping of Champagne and Grand Cru vin rouge. Not a bad way to round out the afternoon.

For dinner we went to a pizza restaurant under the Kings Tower. In their wine list they had a Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1961 @ €4800 a bottle. Probably would not go with our pizza.