Red wine tasting at Maison Vauron

I've done a number of posts about Maison Vauron, the French wine and cheese merchant and  restaurant located in Newmarket, New Zealand. I love that place. 

We have eaten a number of meals there, enjoyed several lunches and afternoon snacks, and taken home lots and lots of bread, cheese and wine.  My favorite treat is to grab two loaves of bread and about 300 grams each of Brie, a blue of some sort, and a chicken/duck liver mousse that is one of their specialties. I wish I could share them with each of you.  

Today, I attended one of their wine-tasting events. Jeanne was busy and couldn't come this time so I didn't linger for long. 

I did taste a few wines, had a few bites of cheese and took home a few items. The pictures were taken with my phone. I'd like to share them with you.

The lights are low back here. It's friendly and comfortable. Even the wines are soft and rounded.  

   

Let's sample some of the cheeses before we go upstairs for the more expensive wines....

  

The lights are quite dim here, trouble focusing. 

Meanwhile, things are jumping outside as well.   

That tiny truck selling duckburgers is a work of art. 

It's time for me to go.  That display case in the back is full of cheeses. The mousse that we like is in another case out of site to the right.  

This time though, what I chose to take home were two long, half-baguette sandwiches made with sausage, cheese and greens.  They're the very ones that are standing up in the baskets you see on top of the glass case that the bluejeaned man is now facing. I replace him moments after this picture was taken.    

This is looking down into the restaurant. 

The is the case he was looking into. I briefly looked too but didn't take any.   

I'm on my way out of the door and see all the folks at the tables along the street.  

This has been fun. I have attended quite a number of these tasting events over the years and have seen their popularity grow.  

I commented to the woman accepting my payment for the sandwiches that it was only noon and already it was amazingly busy.  She delightedly rolled her eyes, shook herself a little and said, " I know."     -djf