The hallowed halls of Vougeot

Below is the entrance to Clos Vougeot .... hallowed ground in Burgundy.  Some of the most expensive real estate in the world lies outside this castle ...

 It was traditionally a monastery until the monks got sense, and use the wine profits to head off to the Seychelles for the winter, and hook up with russian prostitutes.

 Some secret service agents on the right, fresh from a DSK refresher course on security

 Inside Clos Vougeot, where we got to taste some outstanding wines from some of Burguindy's finest estates. This means wines that we could never afford, but are very happy to drink for free.

 Outside was a father and son operation, showing how wine barrels are made. They were doing these from scratch, the real deal, with the oak wood, the metal rings, the fire to expand the wood

 Finished product or almost finished. Nikki has a nice video of all this (she is photographer in chief) but we'll have to upload it via Vimeo one of these days.

 Another view from inside Clos Vougeot

 Getting into the monk's france of mind !! Cheeky pic babes ... catching me while i was not looking

 The real estate that counts ..... expensive fields.