Hitting the Bottle

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Georgina, Ping and I have hatched a plan to go on a wine tasting course, since we're both embarrassed by how little we know about the subject. There's no reason to keep this to ourselves, so: does anybody here fancy coming along?

After some searching, we've lighted on this one here. It's a full day, including lunch, and it's held in a pub in London near West Brompton tube, roughly every week or two. We were thinking of going on Sunday November 6th. The downside is that it costs a fairly eye-watering £99 per person, although that seems to be on the low end for these things. (Of the ones I found, only Vinopolis are cheaper, but they sound revolting -- for £20 they'll give you 10 wines, 4 "premium wines", 2 shots of absinthe and a gin cocktail. Bleargh.)

Anyway, if you're interested, drop me a line or leave a comment here.

[Edit: Changed Saturday to Sunday (doh!)]

Comments

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

I was tempted until I saw the prices... I've been going to wine tastings in Edmonton, Canada, for a while now and they are much cheaper - I think the most expensive was about 60-70 Canadian, and that was a port tasting.

You could charge that much, do it at home, and get a lot of good wine...

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Yes, somebody else mentioned the "do it at home" approach (apparently there are wine groups, along the same lines as book groups). Thing is, I know less than bugger all about wine, so I suspect that trying to do it at home would just result in a bunch of "like that"/"don't like that" verdicts and not much else. So I'm prepared to fork out once, to have someone teach me the basics, and then take it from there...