Portrait of Southern France - as usual the service and friendliness from every member of your team was outstanding both on board the boat and your backroom staff taking the booking. Only one niggle concerning this trip was the wine tasting experience in Beaune. We had expected to visit a chateau, see the vineyards where the vines were growing and taste the wines with a Sommelier - what we got was a visit to a shop in a town - went down in their basement to taste wines (lacking the experience, ambience and finesse we were hoping for) - and then up into the shop to purchase. The Beaune winetasting was in complete contrast to that experienced in Chateauneuf-du-pape. The food and wine on the Viking Buri was outstanding.