Mt. Pleasant, S.C.
I went to a wine tasting this afternoon and hopefully learned a thing or two about wine from Charleston's Best Sommelier Clint Sloan.
I may need a few follow up sessions (sip, sip) to cure me of basing my wine buying decisions purely on price and attractive labels. I didn't even know what the expression "wine legs" meant until this afternoon.
Thanks to Joe and Maddy who bid on and won the wine tasting at a charity event and included me.
Having been a wino (I mean, wine aficionado) and having worked in a winery, I do know what "wine legs" are. Is. Are. Thingy.
ReplyDeleteHowever, no matter how much wine frippery I learn, I am still a label ho. If I likes the label, I tries the wine. If I likes the wine, I buys it again. If I don't likes the wine, at least I has a really cool bottle to save and use as decoration, my precioussssss.
I am all to familiar with a wine head (which usually occurs to me the next morning), but not legs.
ReplyDeleteLast wine tasting I went to was at Middleton Place Plantation. It was right outside the restaurant and for some reason hardly anyone was attending. My wife and I paid and had near total control over the wines and cheeses.
ReplyDeleteNot exactly my finest moment in restraint.
My wife had to tell me a couple of times it wasn't Kool-aid and that I needed to savor it at least a second or two.
Sounds like fun, Joan. Here is a little book that I think is a must read. It is short, light, and you can read it in bits and pieces...as the trailer says - the only book that demystifies wine without losing its magic:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.amazon.com/Commonsense-Book-Wine-Demystifies-Destroying/dp/0932664768
I would have liked that...our neighbors are wine aficionados and have quite wine "cellar" in their entryway!
ReplyDeleteAnd they invited us to a wine-tasting party the other night. Great fun.
But I didn't learn anything about "wine legs" and I still buy wine based on price and attractive labels.
Some would say I'm incorrigible. Probably rightly so!