We have been very fortunate that there has been good support for our group in these challenging times……though who can resist a glass or two of wine to talk of many things, as the quote goes by Lewis Carroll, from the Walrus and the Carpenter ‘the time has come the walrus said, to talk of many things, of shoes and ships, and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings’…….
So on June 30, we were kindly hosted by Paul Sochaczewski and his wife Monique. Paul provided 6 varying red wines from Italy, whose labels were conveniently covered by the traditional ‘socks’ donated by Hamish McCombie some eons of time ago…..the highest score was 3 out of the 6 correctly identified.
On July 13 our hosts were from Morges, Ian Cappin and his wife Anne. The choice of wines that evening, were from different regions of Spain, whose most well-known reds are the Rioja wines……. again the highest score was 3 out of 6.
August 27 was our latest wine-tasting evening hosted by David Gwilliam and his wife Paddy. Again we were confronted by wines from Italy, which all seemed to be ‘ruby’ red with rich plum aromas and cherry fruit flavors…..and difficult to differentiate. Highest score was only 2 correct…….
OF note: Our wine group consists of some 25 members, and we like to have at least 6 participants with a maximum of 8 for a session to be held…….the ladies generally organize a restaurant for themselves and are there to drive their husbands safely home………!
Our next wine-tasting will be hosted by Tony Raeburn with the theme ‘lesser known European reds’ on the 30 September at 7.30pm……. 6 ‘winers’ have already signed in…..