Food At Asconi

All of Asconi's food is locally sourced from Puhoi, the village it is surrounded by.  The food is very good, though I didn't like the sausages -they were not well ground enough and were bland.

Halfway Point

I am now officially at the halfway point of this design.  It will become my next daily stitch soon.

Rustic Dining

Asconi's dining room is rustic in design.  It's beautiful, too.  Andreas wants to use their overhead lighting design.

So Close

I missed my self imposed one a week deadline of getting something done, but it's close!  There's very little cross stitching left and a lot of back stitching.

Cellar And Gardens

Asconi's cellars look rather typical of Moldovan wine cellars.  The gardens on top of them were in glorious bloom when we visited in August, though!  A lot of the garden had vegetables that they used in their dishes for lunch.

Mistake Fixed

The tubes on the right weren't lining up correctly - there was a mistake of one stitch on one of them.  It's all fixed now, though, and more progress made with that one big line almost all the way across.

Modern Bottling System

Asconi's bottling system is the most automated in Moldova.  No one touches the bottles or wine after the pallet of bottles are put in the staging area.  All machine, even to boxing the bottles.  This makes them both more sanitary and more even.  It's great to watch.