To keep up our record, we started the day with the market in Nyons. As long as this great weather keeps up, this is, at the very least, a good way to log those precious steps. The girls have definitely gotten into the French shopping style, hitting the vendors most frequented by the locals.
Today, we lunched at the single star le Pres du Moulin restaurant in Serignan du Comtat, which is a couple villages away from Cairanne. This lunch will rate as our finest culinary experience of the trip to date.
We sat on the plane tree shaded terrace and started off with a glass of champagne – Tattinger for Dawn and brut Mosaique rose Jacquart for Jackie & I. Interestingly enough the Jacquart was 5 euros more per glass.
For first course, Dawn and Jackie has a salad of tomatoes and artichokes where they had skinned the tomatoes, thinly sliced them and presented them in a nicely molded round. My first course was grilled foie gras – quel surpris! – with green shallot bows. Talk about flavour!
Jackie’s main course was supreme of white chicken with lemon. Dawn had steak with a divine mustard sauce – divine equaling mustard/butter/cream/butter/cream/butter/cream. Get the idea? I had a croustillant de boudin which was blood sausage finished crispy in a round. Various mounds of creamy mashed potatoes accompanied all meals. For dessert it was a rum and raisin ice cream for Jackie, a chocolate-coffee milles-feuilles for Dawn and a hazelnut tart for me.
Wine with lunch was a 2009 Domaine Delubac Cairanne white.
Wow! What a lunch!
We drove back to Cairanne via the chateau in Rochegude where we quickly decided to get reservations for tomorrow – more about that then.
The remainder of the day was spent in various shaded locations around our Cairanne house sipping white Chateuneuf du Pape. No large meal tonight, since we didn’t need it and also because we wanted to continue savouring our lunch experience.
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