Jay About Culture!

That's right... culture my friends, culture! Last night my Special Lady and I went to a wine tasting at an art gallery put on by Daedalus Wine Merchants here in Burlington, VT. Impressed? I thought you might be. Was I wearing a tweed jacket w/ leather elbow patches and wearing a Scottish walking hat from Hammlecer Schlemmer? Sadly, no. The tasting featured 50 wines; white, red, and champers, from several different grapes and regions. 50 seems pretty intimidating but not for big shots like ourselves! The guys at Daedalus are great. 1 went to business school w/ my wife and he is knowledgeable, patient, and a nice guy. The other is a friend of a friend and seems like a good guy too. We started in the whites and picked and choose our way though. One mistake we made was getting there early. It was a mob scene. Like a frat party you had to muscle up to the table and then park it while you went through the 5 or so wines then move on to the next table and do it all over. Many folks got in a weird dysfunctional line and tried to go in order but that did not really work. By the time we went over to the reds (the room was about 130 degrees w/ no open windows), it had cleared out a bit and we were able to move more freely which made the experience infinitely more enjoyable. By the end it was kind of funny... a bunch of older people, maybe my parents age and older, bumping around after drinking too much rather than spitting or dumping wine. Gotta pace yourselves, it's a marathon not a sprint Golden Girls! Price points were very attractive and the wines overall were very nice offering cheap wines, more expensive, table wines, every day drinking wines, chugging wines, special occasion wines, complex, rustic, challenging, gross... pretty much ran the gamut. Unfortunately our notes were on the ordering sheet we used to buy a few bottles so I will have to get back to you on details. Needless to say, a fun time was had by all (by my Special Lady and I!). We finished w/ a delicious slice of pizza from Junior's and then an episode of Mad Men on DVD at home. Pretty fun night! 2 thumbs up.