Ever been to a wine-tasting?

[tootsie]

So my husband found a wine-tasting followed by a movie, "No Country for Old Men", one of our favorite movies. We've never been to a wine-tasting. Thought we should try something new; the bad thing is it's tomorrow night. I work until 5 pm, so we wouldn't be able to make it because it starts at 5, poop. It'd be so perfect, sipping different wines followed by a great movie on the big screen. Are wine-tastings fun? It seems so silly to me spitting out wine in front of people; I'd feel so weird. Not much of a wine drinker, but I had some wine about a year ago at my mom's house, I believe it was Sonoma 2004, a red wine that wasn't too sweet or too bitter, just right. Well, maybe we'll try the wine-tasting out one day. I like to try new things.

[Dani]

I have been to a wine tasting, but I didn't spit anything out. lol It was good, they only give a wee bit to sample.

[Goin2thechapel]

I love wine tastings!

I don't usually spit wine out. But if you need to spit, spit it back into your wine glass and then dump it out in the buckets provided. It's not like a huge community spitting pit. LOL

They're fun.

[SerendipityCrafts]

Our honeymoon was in a new wine region of Ontario - Picton/Prince Edward County and we stayed in a stone cottage on one of them. We took one day and went from winery to winery, doing wine tastings. It was great!

psssst ... there is no spitting involved :) - just little wee samples of wine. They might also have baskets of little crackers or pieces of bread set out - these are so that you can "clean your palette".

The wineries we visited charged $1-$2 per sample. We ended up buying at least one bottle of wine from each place we visited.

A wine tasting and a movie sounds like lots of fun!

[Nekochanpurr]

My mom took us when we were little.. But they had juice set out as well. XD It was St. Julian's i believe. heh

[KMS]

I'm just starting to really enjoy wine so I'd love to go to one, but have never been...yet! :grinhappy:

[ladymelissa]

If you are going to watch "No Country For Old Men" don't spit out a drop of that wine! In fact, buy a bottle!!!! It is a painfully slow movie that really doesn't go anywhere, DH felt the same way.

[L.J.Aguirre]

i got drunk whine tasting in napa... shame on me:bbcry:

[kiddienurse601]

When I moved to Baltimore a year ago, they had a wine festival where you paid X amount of money and tried all the vineyards' wines for free. Let's just say a good day was had by all!!

[Kirby]

I have been to two wine tastings and I loved them. I am a huge fan of wine and it really does broaden my horizons. The ones I go to let you try a sample, then have a whole glass if you like it. No spitting involved. It is a flat fee to get in and all the wine you can drink. Needless to say, my friends and I got drunk. :D

[neebelung]

Hmmm... I love wine tastings!!

(I've never been to one where they spit it out either)

I've been to tastings at wineries, where you get basically a thimble sized cup of each selection (those are usually freebie tours), but then tastings at wine bars are much nicer. At the wine bar we go to, you have a choice... whites, reds, or (deluxe... I can't recall what they actually label it). It's three selections for that month, either in white, red or the deluxe is mixed, some red, some white. It's three half-glasses, for a set price (whites are usually $10, reds $12 and the top end one is $20). They do it on Wednesdays, and it's in an upscale shopping area, so you get a lot of people right after work... nice, professional crowd.

They normally have some live music (jazz, or something mellow like that) and orderves (hummus and pita chips, marinated mozarella balls with tomatoes and olive oil, cheese, etc...). Definitely a lot of fun.

It's a great way to try new things and find new wines you might otherwise never have found.

[brendalin]

At the wineries in Door County they let you taste the wine for free (some of them do anyway) I stopped after work one day and had a couple samles (then they had crackers to clean your palate) and then ended up buying a whole case of wine! Hmmmmmm...... It is too early to want a glass of wine!

[SerendipityCrafts]

It is too early to want a glass of wine!

Not if someone else is having one too. Pour me a glass please! :)

[Ellen]

I'm going on a wine tasting tour for the first time on Sunday for my bachelorette party. I'm really looking forward to it. It's something I've wanted to do for a while, so I was glad when my FSIL came up with the idea for my party.

[neebelung]

Hmmm... its a little too early for a glass of WINE maybe, but champagne? NEVER!!!! I could go for a mimosa right about now! :)

[acidcookie]

My friends and I go wine tasting at wineries quite a bit. You spit it out if you are driving! :-P Actually it's just that sometimes we hit so many wineries in a day that we'd be drunk or sick if we drank it all. And frankly, being drunk sort of ruins the actual tasting, plus they won't serve you if you're stumbling around.

I don't usually spit, but I do pour out the rest of what I don't sip the first time. We recently went wine tasting in the Niagara area of Ontario and hit 10 wineries in one day! So of course I couldn't finish everything I had in my glass each time.

That said I've never gone to a scheduled one, and I've never paid to taste wine.

[smiller]

We live in La so the most amazing California wines are just a day's drive away. We go wine-testing regularly to many of the vineyards in Southern and Central California. It is lots of fun and you get to meet a lot of interestiing people. Once you become more familiar with wines you have no problem spitting out bad wine.

Also it is fun because we are generally the youngest there. We are only 25 and 26 and the average wine taster here is in their 30s or 40s since it is an expensive hobby. An average wine tasting trip for us aorund $300 (I like to buy nice wine). However if you are ever on our cost you should really try our vineyards.

[SunnyAB]

We don't have any wineries close by, but we have a very smart liquor store owner (in my humble opinion) ;) that holds a wine 'fair' every spring. He has most if not all his vendors set up tables and show their stuff. You pay $15 (you get one wine glass when you go in - DONT set it down!!) :D and get all the wine you like within reason - (although some leave the fair pretty much snockered). There are all kinds of appetizers (hot and cold) as well as the small bits of bread at the tasting tables, and they have a local celebrity chef do a cooking demonstration - sometimes using the wine to cook with, and always recommending what to drink with the meal he is cooking. If you are lucky he will pick you to sit as his table and sample his meal (I was picked once!) I am in no way a wine connoisseur, but I know what I like, so this is perfect for me, and you learn a lot just by asking. I have found so many great wines this way. The vendors are usually pretty generous with their samples, but I hate to waste so I make sure they give me only a very little to start with then do dump the rest if I really dont like it, or ask for a bit more if I want an extra taste. I have gone on one winery tour many years ago - when my ex sisterinlaw worked there and did enjoy that too. Its great fun!

[bichonlvr]

i got drunk whine tasting in napa... shame on me:bbcry:

DITTO!!!!!!!! Who doesn't?!?!?!