Saturday, August 23, 2014

We built a wine museum and no one came

Hameau Duboef is a massive complex of museums--one dedicated to wine, one to winemaking and one to wine transportation--between which one has to take a motorized mini train. There are vast tasting rooms with seating for hundreds and expansive gardens (with the aforementioned mini adventure golf). And it's all totally empty. Eerily empty. Creepily so. Made even more so by the music they pipe into the vacant gardens.

It reminds me of the Bay Area's ill-fated museum of wine and culture, Copia, which failed miserably, in part because people never showed up.

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