2012/08 – The Big ANS Week-End : Day Two

20 Aug

Breakfast Day Two – Picture by Astrid PielRoja

Day Two / 18.08.2012

Day Two – the Saturday.

After a leisurely breakfast and 60’s Nectares Nr 2 courtesy of David, I took my friends
to visit the winery down from our place where Inge and I buy our wine.

www.guttandin.de

We received a very warm welcome, a fantastic tasting, a tour of the facilities and tasty
snacks plus a most expert seminar on our Rheinhessen grapes varieties, their
peculiarities and history by Ms Silke Guttandin.

A most sincere DANKESCHÖN to the entire Guttandin family !

Then it was simply too hot to move, the week-end bringing record breaking temperatures (
next door to us it was Germany’s hottest day on the Sunday at 39,1 C ), so we stopped by Vito’s Pizzeria to lunch, smoke a Punch Black Prince and enjoy Italian gelato.

After almost 10 years in my lockers with no humidification it was reassuring to see
that 6 experienced cigar smokers considered the cigar to be outstanding – I like to keep things simple and the KISS method of storage I use seems fine.

We joined all the others in Gabsheim at a fantastically decorated old barn, appropriately
named Feier-Scheier or Party Barn to have the dinner, organized by the CCC with the customary Cigarrignac Brandy at the end.

www.feier-scheier-rheinhessen.de

The service by Peter and his wife and the quality of the food was first rate and I will
certainly return to the Feier-Scheier.

We wanted to finish off the day with a few beers at the Irish pub but found it closed,
the 15-th anniversary the day earlier must have taken a toll on Andy …

So we once again gathered in the pharmacy lab for some beers, cigars, dirty jokes and some
Balinese gong explosions at one in the morning … wonder what the village
thought was going on …

Nino