Attend a Wine Tasting

Attend a Wine Tasting
Saturday August 3, 2013

Nicole is one of my favorite people.  She is Australian and has lived there till recently, so it's such a treat to have her around!  Nicole is an excellent person to drink wine with, partly because she coordinated wine events in Australia, so has a lot of great wine knowledge and partly because she's so much fun!

For a few months in 2004, Nicole lived with me and every Monday night we would see if we could drink more wine than we had the previous Monday.  We once drank 4 bottles of wine between the two of us.  And the wine was usually pretty bad; typically only costing about $8/bottle. 

We like to drink nicer wine now.


Nicole married Rich, a great guy from Calgary.  So, we made it a date night.  We were able to buy groupons for the tasting, which took place at a shop on McLeod Trail called Enoteca.  The store is mostly wine, but they have a few other things as well.  In the back they have a little room for wine tastings and events. 

We got there a bit early and looked around for a little while.  Then we posed for this awesome picture:

Classic Rich

There were two people running the event.  They had 3 wines for us to taste and lots of cheese and crackers.  They spoke a lot about the wines and where they came from, which was great, but they waited for quite a while before giving us our first taste.  Once we got the samples, everyone in the room seemed to perk up a bit. 

The tasting itself was about an hour.  It was casual and fun.  When it was over Nicole, Rich and I made sure the remaining bottles were empty.

Chris (hubby) and I bought 2 bottles of wine.  One that we had tried in the tasting and one of Chris' old favorites.  Nicole & Rich bought the rest:

Afterwards, we went down the street to a pub for supper and some more drinks.  The evening was a lot of fun and I'd love to do this again!