Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Wine-athon



As stated in the previous blog. Courtney and Johnny came to visit us in Napa. We started off at Signorello's for wine tasting and margherita pizzas. Afterwards we went to the 47th annual Wine Library tasting. Where, other than some of the people working the event, we were the only people there of our age group.

Group photo in the parking lot.
The tasting took place on the greens at Silverado Resort, where people were still finishing off their games when we got there. Beautiful place though.
More glasses for our pitiful collection, by Napa standards.
Yes, we wore name tags. And those popcorn buckets were actually for spitting out and dumping wine.
Those cheese and crackers saved the event from becoming a scene, and I don't mean by us.
We voted Johnny as the first person to be kicked out based on skin color and his shirt. Votes were taken before walking into the event.
Learning about wine.
This was at about 5:40. The event started at 5. I'm actually very surprised that no one threw up.

Jason, Eric, and Yesenia.
Leaving the event. General consensus was that it wasn't worth 80$, or event the 60$ if you signed up in advance. 25-30$ a person would have been more reasonable, but that's also probably why there wasn't anyone else in our age range there. We were full of wine, cheese, and water by this point. About an hour later we were also full with tacos from Tacos Michoacan. For me, Duckhorn Winery was my favorite. I will have to go to their winery soon and do a tasting.

4 comments:

  1. Spitting wine... WTF?! Ha ha ha guess they do thing different over there. Jesse

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  2. Can we only drink wine and eat tacos when I visit?

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  3. i second that, janel!

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  4. Jess - my favorite quote of the day was when I told Courtney she could dump her wine out into the buckets. And she told me that if she was going to dump wine out it'd be into her mouth.

    Janel - when are you thinking of coming??? And of course we will.

    Christian - get here already.

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