Friday, September 05, 2008

Red Nose Day.



A wine tasting, organised by The Wine Society was, conveniently, in The City Rooms, here in Leicester this week. My son Will and I strolled down dodging various heavy showers to sample 16 wines from around the World. Rubbing shoulders with so much tweed and silver hair was novel and made even me feel quite young! Kicking off with some refreshing sparkling whites, we moved on to heavier whites, light reds and then the Clarets. A good learning experience! Favourite was wine number 7, a full bodied white Burgundy at £225 a case. At the end of the tasting the girl serving it poured the last of the bottle into our glasses as we confirmed it really, really was our favourite and we stumbled off to get something to eat.

3 comments:

Affer said...

Picture No.2.....framed in the background over the head of the lady who might (or might not) be Camilla Jessop....is that what I think it is?

Peter Ashley said...

Thanks af-a, you've just reminded me to get some toothpaste.

Ron Combo said...

Red Nose Day. Very good.
And you look so well Toby. Been anywhere nice?