Great way to learn about wine

I never claimed to be the sharpest tool in the shed. We happily took our glasses of wine and chatted at ease whilst looking at the rest of the crowd.

"This is an odd wine tasting."
"Yeah I mean they just keep filling our glasses and giving us food."
"Yeah I just don't see the benefit in it," as I offered out my glass to be refilled again by the server.
"What time did it start at?"
"7pm... It's 8pm," I looked at the server drain the bottle into my glass, "excuse me hun, when is the wine tasting going to start?"
"Wine tasting?"
"Uh huh," my partner and I looked at each other like confused dogs.
"This is a private party. This is Google's private party - do you work for Google?"
Suddenly it felt like all the eyes of the room were on us.
"Oh course we do - finance department!"

We swiftly exited and got in a taxi to this venue. We made it in time for the red wines.
What an amazing venue for wine tasting. It feels like you are in Oscar Wilde's living room. There were platters of cheese, crackers, parma ham and grapes.
We sat at a long table, that sat four people on either side. There were four tables like that. Opposite us was a charming couple that converted me to Italian wine.
Michelle Jordan, an Australian lady whose blood seems to flow wine, was our guest teacher for the night. She added glamour with her svelte appearance. Her descriptions and tour of the wines was extraordinary. The woman has a gift for imagery.
You are given a place mat with five circles and the name of the wines on it and on it five glasses which are filled with each wine.
I thoroughly enjoyed the tasting and would highly recommend it.
A different Michelle that organised the event and works at Ely did a tremendous job and everyone was so welcoming and at no point did we feel inferior for our limited wine knowledge.
After the tasting we got lots of booklets about what we had just learnt and drank. We retired to the basement for another glass of vino and it was buzzing with people eating.
Fantastic night, great way to learn about wine, meet new people and very affordable to boot.

Posted on 02 Dec 2011