We went to a wine tasting. A company made a leisure/team-building/whatever-having-fun trip to a vineyard, and one of its employees was a language student of a friend of mine, so they decided to do a joint venture and take over the wine cellars together. And ask some friends to come along, too. So I went :)
It took place in the Eastern Czech Republic, Moravia. The nature was beautiful, and the village life seemed tranquil. We stayed in a pension in the village center. There was a pub. After a day of work, a farmer parked his horse carriage to the town square and went to have a beer. Simple life. We played some Frisbee and tennis. And then we walked up the hill to the wine cellars.
Straight away we were offered some wine, and this bread with cheese and ham baked into it.
Cheese in the bread, what a great invention!
For some reason, they had decided that we would do the wine tasting first and have dinner after that. And that was a very bad idea. Especially since we hadn't had lunch either.
We were trying to be sophisticated and do the tasting properly. Rolling the glass, smelling the wine, trying to get the finest essence of the noble product. The first one was applely. The second one had some forest fruit in it. The third one was light and dry, and the fourth one even dryer. I made it to wine number 10. I think it was red.
In the cellar.
Wine number 8. Count the fingers ;)
After having way too much wine, we got the dinner. It was very rural, lots of meat, pickles, and some Moravian cake.
An eating man.
Dinner table.
To sum it up, it was a totally mediocre weekend ;D thanks guys for the great time!
2 comments:
Having the wine tasting _before_ eating is good, because then you don't have aromas of the freshly eaten food mixing with the taste of the wines.
And IF you had been really sophisticated during the tasting, you wouldn' t have had too much wine, because during this kind of a tasting session, you are not supposed to drink the wine but spit most of it out
True that! :) I guess I just had to learn it the hard way. Although I have to say there was no container for the wine to be spat - maybe it's against the Czech custom to spill your wine?
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