Nick wakes up with a very sore back and has to spend a day in bed to rest. If we are to lose a day we couldn't have chosen a better place or day. The weather is grey, overcast and showery. The three fit ones leave Nick in bed and can now partake in morning degustation as nobody has to drive. Ali explains to Madame about Nick and she reassures us we are welcome to stay as long as it takes to get better.

Mas de Rey is a vineyard of 42 hectares of Grenache and Syrah grapes, and the shop/museum buildings include a 17th C chapel. In the tasting room are hung paintings of rural scenes by local artists. The products, which include a variety of wines as well as jams, tapenade, oils, saucisson and soaps, are displayed in a huge antique cabinet about 11' tall and 14' wide. Also today they are able to see the wine being bottled by the mobile bottling plant which arrived last night. Looking like an ordinary delivery lorry it is fitted out with all the equipment required to draw wine from the vineyards casks into bottles then cork, label and pack the cases onto pallets. This 'embouteillage' visits 10 times a year and processes 100,000 bottles. Ali and Grete come back with a box each of wines, soaps and preserves.

Ali does some clothes washing but despite the stormy wind it doesn't dry. The workers go home and there are no more visitors. Nick gets up for long enough to have supper [prawn cocktail, beef casserole and our free melon before we spend our second night under the rustling mulberry tree.