"Your focus determines your reality" - Fall 2025 Travel Adventures - Update 10/17

[Dis_Yoda]

Saturday
September 20th 2025
Visit to Domaine Le Prieure Winery

At 5:30PM, we met back up with our group to head to Chateauneuf-du-Pape for our farewell event.



Our first stop was a Domaine Le Prieure Des Papes, a small winery in the region, for a discussion on wine making then a tasting.

They walked us through their production as it was in progress from the harvest. They use old fashion methods while having upgraded to some more advanced technology over the years.









From there we were led out to the terrace where we got to taste four different wines from their vineyard.







I really enjoyed all their wines; however, the pricing to purchase the wines and get them shipped were insane. With the state of tariffs as well – you may end up with an additional bill upon arrival in the US! At that point, it wasn’t worth it to spend 400+ Euros on 6 bottles of wine to get home.

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[Dis_Yoda]

Saturday
September 20th 2025
Farewell Dinner at Le Comptoir de la Mere Germaine

We headed into the central area of Chateauneuf-du-Pape for our farewell dinner. The restaurant was the bistro offshoot of a Michelin-Starred La Mere Germaine and we had to make our selections for our dinner a couple days before.

There were three tables set up for our group and we ended up seated with the younger trio we had made great friends with during the trip along with the solo older gentleman. It made for a great group for our final meal! My husband wasn’t really paying attention when the menu was being selected earlier in the week and just said he’ll have what I’m having which I guess worked out for 2 of the 3 courses.

To start, we had veal carpaccio topped with arugula and parmesan. I really enjoyed this but raw veal isn’t my husband’s cup of tea. He did really enjoy the aged parmesan at least.


Veal Carpaccio w/ Parmesan

Our main was a simple beef filet with roasted potatoes. It was a bit overcooked for my taste but I do like my beef mooing. It was nicely seasoned.


Beef Filet

To finish, it was some type of stone fruit white chocolate panna cotta. I wish I had remembered to take notes at this point in the trip! It was a nice light way to end the meal.


Panna Cotta

We headed to the bus for the last time and headed back to the hotel saying goodbye to all the temporary friends we had made over the week. We also had the awkward handing of the tip to the tour guide but he did earn that money!

Then it was off to bed as we had a viator tour booked for the morning that we needed to rest up for.​