Angel Traders Visits toulouse

Day 1 Road trip to Toulouse

Hello again
We started out trip at 7.20am car fully loaded together with homemade pasties from the night before. By 9am four of the pasties had gone. Bloody lovely!!. Anyway at 10am we had a text from Nico our little producer of the finest wines in Bordeaux. He wanted to know if we wanted to stop off in Bordeaux to sample the 2009 wines that were currently maturing. Why not we thought although 10.30 was a little ealy for us to sample wine. 10.30 for us is normally hot chocolate and biscuit time!!.
When we arrived we didn't reconise him he had gone from boy to man!!. He had cute fuzzy hair and had grown a beard. My car door opened and I heard Melanie say "Hello your looking hairy" How rude was that? I couldn't beleive my ears.
He took us to the tasting room and placed two small bottles on the table "Oh we said they are so nice are they little pressies for us?" he gave us a funny look and dissapeared. While we were hoping he had gone to get some more for us to take on our journey we started to take some photo's. Well in he came with two large bottles one white and one rose. perfect we thought one for me and one for Melanie. How wrong we were he wanted the bigger bottles in the photographs. No pressies for us how mean was that!!!.
Nico then took us to the vineyard and gave us a lession in pruning. It was really nice that Nico took some time out to show us about as he makes most of the work himeself on the vineyard from planting to pruning to bottling to labelling to selling and we are really proud to have him at our events.

We continued our journey to Toulouse and decided to find where the Feb venue was going to be before finding a hotel.

Our meeting was a 4pm and as we drove through the gates of Domaine de Preissac we felt success oozing all over. Another magical place!!.
With acres of parkland a fairytale chateau and an events hall that you could only dream of.
We went to the main reception and met Giles from Angloinfo.com who had kindly offered to join us to help finalize things.

We were shown the venue and wow what a venue it is. If you haven't already booked then you would be mad to miss it.
Afterwards feeling very exhausted we headed back to our hotel for something to eat and an early night.