Wine Tasting.

Wednesday 29th June 2011.

On monday night I got no sleep at all; I was at a campout but technically it was a sleepover in a tent in a friend's garden. It was horrifically wonderful as no sleep = random hysteria and crazy memories. Everyone laughed at anything and generally we all had a F.A.B time. So today I had some more sleep than usual because I'm slowly recovering from the one night insomnia; although my mum has always said you only need one night's good sleep to be back on form- I'm not so convinced. I woke up (as you do) and watched a bit of E4 to pass the time. Then I realised that on Monday night I had (purposefully) missed a call from work. I'm a waitress at a local pub and have been for around 5months. This call had fortunately led to a voicemail and after listening to it a couple of times I discovered that I had some staff training today but not only was it staff training...It was WINE TASTING. YAY. So I went in for two hours of "staff training". I actually learnt quite a bit. I was opened to a whole new richer/older/more mature alcoholic world. My knowledge grew from just thinking that wine tasted like wine/grapes and was only really nice if it is mulled wine or for holy communion (and even for Church I struggled to not think about anything but how much it reminded me of dirt and dust, probably just the Churches I went to) to actually thinking about whether a wine tasted of citrus, orchard or tropical fruits. There was about 7 of us learning from this man about New and Old world wines and the different regions of Italy, Spain, France etc. We all tried and tasted 8 seperate wines: 3white, 2rosé and 3red. I found out that may favourite wine is the Riesling: slightly sweet, half dry, medium bodied and great on a summery day to complement asian food.