My room key
This is the third and last of my Gran Monte Harvest Festival blog entries. I know that the festival was in February and now it is already April. However, visiting Gran Monte Vineyard is always a good choice regardless of the time of year.
The view from the guest house
During the harvest festival I was very lucky to stay at the Gran Monte Guest House which is just in the middle of the Gran Monte vineyards with great views.
It is wonderful to wake up in the morning, hear the birds sing and step out of the room, a room with a view so to speak and be right in the middle of things.
The wine education at Gran Monte also includes some harvesting of grapes, just a little for the feeling of it. Of course I also participated, took the secateurs and cut a couple of bunches, just for fun.
Secateurs and a little basket
Beautiful and healthy grapes
Syrah grapes ready for harvest
Anty Fung, project manager from Asian Palate in Hongkong
In my first blog entry I mentioned that I shared the bus with a couple from Hongkong. It turned out that Anty Fung was a very knowledgeable wine writer and wine promoter working at Asian Palates.
To educate Asian wine drinkers to grape wine is not an easy undertaking. Often the description of what you are going to experience when you drink a specific wine is completely intangible to non Europeans. The references are out of sync with Asian life experience so to say.
This means tasting notes have to be re-written so that Asian consumers can connect to the product. Anty is working in this exciting sector and it was a great pleasure to listen to her and her assessments.
Moreover, she was great fun.
The awesome breakfast at Gran Monte
Finally let me tell you that the breakfast at Gran Monte Family Estate is just another marvel. Look at the picture above. Would you not love to have this kind of egg dish in the morning?
You can have it. Just go and check it out at Gran Monte guest house. Stay there for a weekend and experience the uniqueness of a Thai vineyard and winery with great food and fine wines. You are also going to meet a Thai family which is very passionate about wine, viticulture and the environment of the Asoke Valley.
The Man from Mosel River 
You’ll have to give me their contact info, because that looks like something I would love to do while in Thailand in July and August!
I didn’t even realize you were there in February. How funny. It looks great.
To the winegetter: my contact email address visooth@granmonte.com
To Margit; We were hoping that you could join our event last Feb.but you needed recovery time and be in good health. Pleased to know you are fine now.
To Reiner: Thanks for lovely report. Bring Margit to visit in rainy season. It’s nice too !
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