Your wine trip program
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Day 1 - Sake tasting
- Your stay begins with a visit of the first French Sake brewery, Les Larmes du levant, in Pélussin. Grégoire, the founder, welcomes you for a guided tour. You will discover the production of this Japanese rice fermented alcohol. The visit is followed by a sake tasting - a bottle is presented at the end of your tasting.
- Extend your discovery of Sake from a dinner at the gastronomic restaurant l'Ode Marine (fish and seafood specialties). The chef Christophe Boucher have a great knowledge about the Japanese culinary art thanks to 6 years of experience in a gourmet restaurant in Japan. He creates for you a special Sake pairing menu. Enjoy the harmonious alliance between French and Japanese gastronomy!
- Night at the charming B&B, A la belle histoire.
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Day 2 - Zen day
- Breakfast at your accommodation.
- A non-guided visit of a Zen Garden by Erik Borja offers you an immersive morning in a Japanese atmosphere. This garden is known as a reference in the art of Japanese-inspired gardens in France. Covering an area of almost 4 hectares, it is composed of several gardens: reception, meditation, tea, walk and Dragon garden.
Bookable all year round and visit between April and November.
No pets allowed.
Accommodations
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A la belle histoire Guest House
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Great sake holiday!
A very Japanese experience: the visit to the sake distillery was fascinating (many thanks to Grégoire for showing us how sake is made), the meal at the Ode Marine was very good and echoed the sake visit, and the accommodation was perfect! The visit to the Zen garden the next day was a real change of scenery (although we had a problem booking the Zen garden and had to pay for the entrance tickets ourselves).
(Sake-tasting in the Rhone Valley - Note : 5/5)