A relaxed and easy 6 day cycling trip exploring the old #HuiZhouMerchantsRoute #徽州商路 from @wildhomestay to Wuyuan.
See Weibo diary https://share.api.weibo.cn/share/251720441.html?weibo_id=4683910863390072 and Komoot Map https://www.komoot.com/collection/1328532/-huizhou-merchant-route and ride notes. #tanqi.
We have recycled three old family homes in the village and are now offering these for rental. Pricing works out about the same as our other houses on a per person basis with the benefit of having your own private living room and option of self catering.
It turns out one of our regular “cycling” guests, Mr Constant-Duquesnoy has a family vineyard in the foothills of a famous French cycling region (Mt Vontoux) and we thought it would be interesting to offer a similar regions wine at the Homestay.
High quality family run and made wines. Perfect accompaniment to our BBQ and various types to suit local flavours.
Mathieu practicing his cycling skills at the homestay 🙂
Landscape similar to our own.
Mathieu hard at work collecting his grapes
Some background: Domaine CONSTANT-DUQUESNOY is located near the villages of Vaison-la-Romaine, Gigondas and Nyons. The estate’s vineyards cover 20 hectares (49 acres) in 4 prestigious appellations:
They grow noble varieties such as Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre and Carignan for our red wines which account for most of their production.
For white wines, they grow white Grenache, Clairette and Viognier.
Some of their plots contain vines aged over 60 years old located at over 400m (1,300 feet) elevation (similar to the homestay).
For over 70 years, the vineyards of the Domaine have been grown with the utmost respect for the environment. For the past 3 years, we’ve been practicing organic farming on some of our plots. We are converting the rest of our plots to organic farming and employ practices such as : repeated plowing, using a high trellis, manual pruning, careful debudding and fruit thinning to keep yields under 30 hectoliters per hectare (a little over 2 tons per acre).
A larger selection of Domaine Constant-Duquesnoy wines can be bought directly through Mathieu @ WeChat ID: constant-duquesnoy .
00 86 150 268 68 532
www.constant-duquesnoy.com
Mathiue@constant-duquesnoy.com
Check out these photos and4 posts for the 2021 Dirty #1:
On the 24th of April we will be holding the first Somewhat Dirty Cycling Challenge aimed at people wanting to gain a taste of “gravel” or off road riding. Our Dirty Challenges are designed and are described as the toughest 1 day mixed surface cycling Challenges in the region with many of the participants not finishing. This “Somewhat” Dirty Challenge is suitable for newer and less endurance or experienced riders, is still a real challenge and lots of fun.
The top of the main climb on the Somewhat Dirty.
If you don’t have a suitable bike we might be able to provide you one through our Tanqi Adventure Riding program with Specalized. We have a great range of Diverage adventure gravel bikes and mountain bikes with gravel tires which are highly suited to the challenge.
Just before the main downhill after the Pig Farm Climb
The range of Tanqi Specalized Diverges. Fantastic carbon adventure bikes!
