Day 4 Pompeii continued...
Next up we went back onto the bus to go to our lunch and wine tasting. After a 20 or so minute ride we pulled up to Cantina Del Vesuvio. A nice little winery with excellent views of the volcano. I was very excited for this because I love wine and I have a friend that had visited this winery before, and loved it. The story goes that there has been wine being made here since before 5th century BC. The wines they produce are often ashy tasting because of all the ash.
We got seated with our two table mates that joined us on this excursion.
Our first wine was their white.
The we were served a meat and cheese plate. Lunch was off to a very good start.
Next we had some rose wine (I took this picture after I had already sampled quite a bit of it.)
Next we got two different kinds of red.
They kept pouring us more red after this, while we were eating our spaghetti.
After spaghetti we got some sparkling wine (no picture). And then finally dessert. It was some sort of cake, I can't really explain it because Ive never had anything like it. It was good though. They served this with an apricot after dinner liquor. That thing was very alcoholy. Not any of our favorites. But it was served in a very cute glass.
Afterwards we had time to shop in the shop. It was very nice and they sold all the wines and the glasses. They even sold the little chicken water pitcher that you see in all of my pictures. Here is the view facing away from the winery.
We had an amazing lunch and wine tasting. The pasta sauce in Italy is very sweet and not savory like we were used to, but it was very good. I loved that they had whole pieces of basil in there, I love basil. We were very full after the tasting and maybe a little buzzed. DH even drank and enjoyed all of his wine, he's usually not a wine person. The day was turning out great so far.
Up next we hike up to the top of Mt Vesuvius!