I didn’t expect to feel this way, but it happened.

A great gang, me and my best friends, a girl and a guy. We didn’t know what awaited us, but we said that once we’re together, it would be wild regardless of what the place we were headed to offered.

It was around 10 in the morning when we arrived at the place, and we approached the reception.

We are X, Y, and Z, we have a reservation/booking, I don’t know what they called it, for wine tasting and traditional dishes. Well, we only wanted the wine, 😊 the part with traditional dishes was just for show. 😊

Done and done, we paid, the guide took us, and we headed towards a kind of carriage, electric, but it still looked like a carriage.

First impression, super, white dot… Storybook experience.

I forgot to tell you, the guide first asked us what language we spoke. We said Romanian, until we get to the tastings, after that, we’ll see if we can still speak. 😊

And the very nice lady started telling us about the carriage we were getting into, where we were going, and what we would find there.

And the experience continues…

As we reached a point of interest, such as: the place where the wine is made and all the tools for it, where it is stored, what it is stored in, etc., she presented and told us the history, the use of each, we stopped and were allowed to explore them. That means I could touch them to understand what a 3-ton barrel looks like. She let me climb on it, me, an adult with the heart of a child, I did it. 😊

And so we roamed through much of that winery, but to give you an idea.

To give you an idea

That place is an underground village with main streets, secondary streets that bear the name of the type of wine they house, totaling 120 km.

What fascinated me and why I say it looks like a miniature city?

The fact that there are: a church, a cinema, an event hall, well, they did it for show… and pictures, but it’s something fantastic.

Before we reached the actual tasting, which took place in the event hall, everything was prepared like in stories, mini thrones, period tables, decorations from other times, sculptures, and so on…. Storybook experience.

Our visit included a break at the cinema, where each of us was served a glass of wine, two, depending on our ability 😊. We were left to enjoy the history and evolution of the winery for a quarter of an hour.

They attacked all our senses

They made sure to attack all our senses to make it easier to win us over.

The taste of the wine, the aroma of grapes + wood + humidity, and the story in the cinema. All made the film complete. Even if my friends could see the images of what was and what that place of wines had become, I didn’t feel disadvantaged in any way.

I had all the details to create a complete picture, and I thought:

Yes, this place is for me.

Then, we went through the hall where the collection wines were kept. They belonged to contemporary personalities.

Wines that normally stay in an isolated area, which the public does not have access to. But we, because we inspired… more trust, I suppose, 😊 were allowed to touch the bottles. More joy for me, more nourishment for my senses.

Another white dot for them, and we were a bit more captivated.

Finally, we arrived at the tastings. There we shared impressions of the day… we did what is usually done with wine, except we were at a range. 😊

I don’t remember how we got out of there 😊

But I was very pleased with the experience. Everything to my taste, not for a second did I feel it was a problem that I couldn’t see.

The experience could be lived just as intensely through all the other senses.

And everything was thought out in such a way that I didn’t regret not being able to enjoy the visual landscape.

Can’t see, okay, touch! Listen, taste, and inhale the aroma of the winery!

Everything there conveyed:

Live the fraction of the story. Let yourself be captivated by what you encounter to be sure you want to return.

And so it was.

They didn’t have anything accessible, but almost everything was inclusive – even for those like me… Storybook experience.

What experience marked you and made you feel like you were living in a fairy tale?

Tell me in the comments!

This way we can inspire each other.

#accessibility_is_not_a_whim – it’s a chance at normality seen through eyes that do not see.