So the second thing that the city of Dijon is known for is its Cassis - black currant liqueur. So today we visited a factory where they make cassis and lots of other kinds of flavored liqueur too. The manager of this factory was so nice and he gave us a tour of the whole factory and let us take as many pictures as we wanted. I must say we still look like complete tourists snapping photos of everything we see, but pretty soon we will not have to do that anymore because we will have passed all the new places a million times on our way to school or on our way to the bakery or on our way to the dozens of cute, little cafes. But right now it is all so new and so we constantly pull the cameras out.
It was pretty interesting to see how the whole process worked, and then after we got to sample 7 different kinds of liqueur which ranged from different fruits to chocolate to even cactus. Most of them were really yummy but there were definitely a few that I wouldn't try again. Also once we were completely finished with the tour the manager gave us little bottle of cassis to bring home. The way they use this liqueur here is they add it either to white wine or to champagne and it makes a drink called Kier. I'm hoping I can pack some Cassis and bring it home because kier is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! And Nathalie told us that if we buy cassis to bring home that we should buy it at the factory because it is the best cassis - and also the cheapest - in Dijon.
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