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Best Wine Stories
Hello everyone, with the slowing down of things on the site (again sorry for lack of content recently) I have decided to try and get things moving a bit again. So I want to start up a new forum topic for you to share some of your best wine experiences. whether it was a fun trip you took intentionally or a happy consequence of something you do regularly, or even just an amusing wine story, please share with us here.
These stories don't have to be long and drawn out (unless you want it to be), and you can post as many as you like. All I ask is that you share you fun time with the world and in return hopefully people will share theirs with you as well.
I will of course get the ball rolling here with a fun story of mine from a trip I took to Italy. Some freinds and I were outside of Assisi and decided to get some food and the only place we could find was this little off the beaten path local place. So we decided to stop in, even though we knew basically no Itallian, we figured oh well give it a shot.
we ended up getting some finger foods and water (due to budgetary constraints) when a local came up to us and asked us where we were from ... in Italian. we didn't know what to say back and he amusingly guessed that we were americans and sat down with us stating he has wanted to work on his english, and proceed to ask us why we werent having wine. next thing we knew half the people in the place where around our table with a jug of local wine trying to teach us some italian and us teaching them a bit of english.
The night slowly moved to them teaching us local folk songs and soccer chants as the localy made wine just kept flowing. This was by far one of my best experiences while traveling overseas, with people of two nations and cultures bonding and amusingly trying to teach one another over the main comminality that we had of wine. It was a great night and a highlight for that trip ... as well as a downside considering the amount of wine, but hey I was on vacation.
So, that is one of my fun stories, who wants to go next?
Great story ecadmin, and man lucky you and getting to travel over there. And I don't know about funny or great at the moment, but memorably tragic I definately have as it happened just the other week.
I was getting together with some people for an offline tasting that I hoped was going to be fun since I had never met these people before in real life. 12 of us were metting up at one of the people homes and we were all bringin a bottle of wine with us to add to the tasting. Our theme was 90's reds, nothing more specific then that.
after we all got there and opened the first bottle we noticed that it didn't really taste right. eventually we decided that it was corked, sadly, and moved to the next wine. This wine was also corked, and the next one. in the end only 3 of the 12 bottles were actually fine. This was pretty annoying as some of the people there had been holding on to these bottles for years only to find they were corked.
Thankfully though the night wasn't completely ruined as we all still had a great night meeting new people, but still driving an hour only to find mine and many other peoples bottles were corked is a bit of a hit.
first off, yes any story is good as long as its wine related. and secondly .... ouch man, that had to have been aweful. good that you guys still had fun though. Apperantly there was a big problem with corked wines from the 90's, but still in that sort of concentration what are the odds?
man that was some bad luck you had for that tasting vawineaddict. for myself, I have a fun story to share with you guys.
A while back I went on a trip to sonoma county to check out some of the vineyards their. we ended up finding this small vineyard off the beaten path, and I am sorry but its been so long that I don't remember the name of the vineyard anymore. We got their just as they were about the close up for the night and stated talking to the guy running the tasting area. He felt bad that we had missed out after coming so far that he decided to stick around and do a tasting with us anyways.
It turned out that the guy was the owner of the place which we all thought was so cool. This guys stayed after he was to go home just to be nice and let us do a tasting of his wines. we were so gratious I think ended up buying 4 bottles, so I guess it worked well for him. but we just thought it was so wonderful that he did that for us.
In 2009, the Northwest wine industry lost five longtime and influential winemakers.
David Lake passed away Oct. 5 at his home in Issaquah, Wash. Lake, a Master of Wine, was the longtime winemaker for Columbia Winery before retiring in 2005. hdi certification
In July, Richard Sommer passed away. Sommer launched the modern Oregon wine industry when he planted Pinot Noir near Roseburg, Ore., in 1961. exam 70-642
Cal Knudsen, an early Oregon wine figure, passed away in April. He planted Pinot Noir in the early 1970s and was part of Knudsen Erath before launching Argyle Winery.
In January, longtime Walla Walla, Wash., winemaker Mike Paul died. He was the owner/winemaker of Patrick M. Paul, one of the first wineries in the Walla Walla Valley.
And Gary Andrus, who started Archery Summit in Oregon and Pine Ridge in the Napa Valley, passed away in February. He pushed Oregon to new heights for wine quality and price.exam 70-630
You hit this one on the nose, I always love stopping into this wine bar every time I fly through Charlotte. It really makes those long layovers a lot more bearable.117-101
good that you guys still had fun though.
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