The writer in the family, the gf, wrote about our weekend so much better than I could, and that's not because I had a hangover, either. I have notes on nineteen different wines, and I can actually read them (so there!). Some of those I had two tastes of, and a couple I forgot to write notes down. So, basically, I drank about a bottle of wine by myself last night.
No, I wasn't driving.
Some interesting notes:
1. The corkscrew of choice for the persons pouring were single-lever Waiter's Keys. There were no Zig Zag corkscrews in use. I was very disappointed.
2. Cheese baskets are *great* door prizes.
3. Most people go thru the motions of tasting wine, but don't really know what they're doing. You don't sniff the wine, you stick your nose down deep into the glass and take a deep, DEEP breath. Take a couple more, then taste the wine, don't slurp it down and proclaim, "It's good!" Chew it, swirl it around, swallow (or spit it out if you don't want to get shitfaced tipsy), then proclaim, "It's good!" or "It stinks!" I was laughing at a lot of people.
4. Amateur bartenders don't know when the girl is playing them for a fool.
5. You have to take notes when tasting lots of wines, because you're not going to remember which wies are good and which wines stink after your fifteenth sample.
The 2004 Maryland Wine Festival is Saturday and Sunday, September 18 and 19, at the Carroll County Farm Museum in Westminster. I'm there!
Oh, and we did a 5-k charity walk the next day. We originally signed up to do the 25-k bicycle tour, but changed our minds when we realized we had darn few miles on our bikes (13 for me, zilcho for the gf). You can see pictures from the walk at the gf's photoblog.
Honest, the fact we knew we'd be drinking the night before had nothing to do with our changing to the walk. Really.
Posted by Victor at Marzo 29, 2004 12:28 PM