More Wine
Another Saturday together (the only day Janet will permit herself not to work). The traditional savoury omelette and we're off like a shot, cruising the sample tables in the Bon Marché food hall by 2:30. We also checked out their Christmas windows, which had little platforms in front to help the kids see.
A colleague of Janet's provided us with tickets to a huge tasting of independent wineries at the exhibition halls. Two floors of a massive exhibition hall filled with little stalls for each little winery. You were given a glass when you entered, and then all the tastings were free. We commenced by seeking out the medal winners from Alsace, and trying their Reislings. When we started to lose our ability to distinguish, we switched to reds, made another list of medal winners further south (looking for places where we might spend a long weekend), and tasted until we started to lose track of more than which wine was best. We came home with a modest six bottles, and a goal of becoming sufficiently educated in oenology by next year that we can pick out the real bargains for a cellar.
posted 27.11.05
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