I woke up this morning thinking my "Paris area" was a little too crowded and thought my Carqueiranne Port painting would look better beside the Cassis painting and my "abstracts" would be better in the master bedroom with my new wonderful purple carpets.
What I particularly love about this painting is the hill on the left. To get to Cassis, you drive down through vineyards and then arrive at this amazing place on the Mediterranean. I did do a painting of Cassis but could only manage some of the houses and my wonderful pointus boats in a very naive simplistic way. This drive down to Cassis is so wonderful I wanted to capture that but just didn't work at all so I love seeing what reminds me of this drive in this painting.
And more purple themed paintings to come....
And then after wandering the seafront, we head to our favourite restaurant "Le Grand Large" which is right on the water's edge and hope to luck into a table at the front (usually did) and order oysters on the half shell and sea urchin (if available). The first time we tasted sea urchin was in Cassis....absolute heaven. And washed down with the wonderful white wine of Cassis that you can only really get in the area.
Yum, yum, yum
"Crisp, floral and flinty, the wines of Cassis are justly famous, though you might know them by reputation only, for the little appellation is often not easy to come by outside the immediate area.
Around a million bottles of wine a year come out of Cassis. The keen local market mops up most of this relatively modest supply, though many of the vineyards listed below have limited quantities available for export.
Unusually for Provence, where rosé generally dominates, Cassis specialises in white wine, which makes up 75% of its production.
Note: Cassis wine is not to be confused with crème de cassis, a sweet blackcurrant liqueur that's a speciality of Dijon in Burgundy."
"Kir" which is white wine with a bit of this liqueur is a popular drink in the south of France. You wouldn't use the wonderful white wine of Cassis this way....it would be a travesty to interfere with its wonderful taste!
