Entre Les Murs

Wine and Cheese

There was another reception at Janet's work the other night, this one held by the social club that is ostensibly for all of us ex-pats and spouses to mingle and network.  There didn't seem to be a lot of networking going on, but people may simply have been focused on higher priorities than socializing, since the evening was organized as a wine tasting, in which a wide selection of cheeses was matched with appropriate wines. 


Cheeses were grouped by type: soft cheeses, the blues, chevres, those with a white rind (like brie), and firm ones, each accompanied with distinctly different wines: Gewürztraminer for the soft ones; Pouilly Fumé for the chevre; Sauternes and Port for the blues; and so on.  The evening was initiated with a short introduction by the facilitating wine expert, from Les Etablissement Fillot.  I was gratified to find that I followed M. Fillot's entire speech; but perhaps it's not surprising that after the last year and a half the one area where my vocabulary seems to be tolerably comprehensive is wine and cheese.

posted 20.1.07