This was supposedly our day off but you know how things work out doing business on the road. Instead we’re doing a bit of filming this day because the sun has finally come out and Producer Steve Jarvis has decided to drag us in the vineyards for pieces on Pape Clement as well as some Wine Minutes that will be shown both on www.winex.com and thewinerychannel.tv  (after extensive editing.) A fabulous tour of Pape with the lovely Claire (you can see the Magrez’s are beyond serious…more on their great 2008 later) followed then by 5:00 PM freedom! It was off to the town of Bordeaux (a 15 minute drive from the winery) for some easy living (and more filming). We hung out with some local friends of ours and had some beers and a quick salad before thinking about dinner. But it was Saturday night and our top two picks in town were booked. So we headed off to an old stand-by of Tris’, L’Orleans, where we had the specialities of the house, steak tartare and meaty, briny oysters (Marenne #4 if memory serves) from Brittany. Not exactly a love fest for the digestive system but man were they good! Bottles of L’Abeille de Fieuzal Blanc 2007 (Fieuzal’s second from an excellent vintage) and Clementin de Pape Clement 2005 (yup, Pape’s second) quickly disappeared, as did the time, seen as we had to push the clocks forward for daylight savings on this day in France, losing a very precious hour. After a cleansing ale we said our goodbyes and it was off to bed, hopefully just beating the sunrise. Tomorrow morning is going to suck…