Wine Tasting

On Tuesday night, I went with my friend Bettina to a wine tasting put on by our Newcomer's Club. We could have brought our significant others, but worked out best that Bettina and I went as dates. It was at one of the smaller colleges called Harris Manchester. Each college has its own sommelier (usually a gentleman who's studied wine all his life and picks the wines to serve with all the events/meals/dinners in the college). Harris Manchester's sommelier hosted our tasting, and he was very informative, funny and enjoyable. We tasted four whites and two reds. Mostly all from France, but one of the reds was from Chile. It was definitely quality wine, and didn't take much to get a little tootled with the British. Many of the others in attendance were the older ladies on the club's committee and their husbands. So they were dressed up and a bit tootled too. It was really fun to chat with them when we all have a shine on. They loved to hear where in the US I was from, what I was doing here, etc. And they love to tell you if they've been to the States, where they were, what they thought about it, etc. Makes for easy conversation and Bettina and I had a lot of fun. We then had some British snacks afterwards, provided by the college. There were two different types of sausage rolls, which is sausage sliced with a pastry crust around each bite. Some crisps (potato chips) and another veggie quiche thing. They really like pastry crust around everything. I met another couple from Vancouver, Canada, and the gal is also in communications work. I think I'll ask her to tea sometime. :)

Note: the photo I'm posting is not related to the wine tasting, but since I've talked a lot about my new friend Bettina, I wanted to post a photo of her. She is in front of Christ Church college.