WTF is going on? My posting has been very light but my hits have been going up? My posting has been light because of my ongoing computer problems which I will be addressing next week and because I've been real busy.
I went to South Carolina earlier in the week. Wednesday morning when I got up to drive home, I noticed that the strap on my left brace had come off. The rivet that fastened it had broken. I was able to walk to my car and drive home OK.
Thursday, I had to go down to the brace place and get it repaired. They did it for free. I had to do some other errands after that.
Last night, I had to go out to eat at La Grotta at Ravinia, a nice Italian restaurant across the street from Perimeter Mall (for all you Atlanta people.) As vice-president of the Sommelier Guild of Atlanta I was responsible for finding a restaurant for our annual banquet.
We have two major events each year: Champagne tasting in December and the annual banquet in May or June. The Sommelier Guild Board goes out to eat (at the Guild's expense) at the restaurants we choose for the Champagne tasting and the banquet to decide on the menu. That's what I had to do last night. Like I say, it's a rough job, but someone has to do it.
My friend Michael couldn't make it because Cindy was sick and he had to stay home with her (altho' she told him he could go.). He was nice enough to drop off a bottle of wine. Did I forget to mention that each of us brings at least one bottle of wine to these previews?
Another member of the board, who shall remain nameless, was an hour late. He wouldn't tell us why. Then to top it off, the two bottles of wine he brought were both corked! Arrrrgggghhhhh! On the upside, that means we didn't drink as much as we normally do at these things.
What we normally do at these previews is order a lot of items off the menu and then share them amongst ourselves. Then we can decide the menu. Then we schedule the event and pick the wines to drink with each course.
Needless to say, I had a real good time last night. The food was delicious and the wines, with the exception of the two corked ones, were excellent.
Update: For those who don't know, when a wine is said to be "corked" it means that the cork was bad and it contaminated the wine. It is estimated that between 3 and 5 percent of wines sold have bad corks.
Posted by denny at April 29, 2005 02:11 PMOk, point me to a website so I can figure out why the corked wines were bad to bring.
Posted by: WarWagon on April 29, 2005 04:49 PMThere's a woman in my family who, when she notices a piece of cork in her wine will proclaim it to be corked and pour the works down the drain. One night, I should tell her about the days in the shacks when the girls would bring wine to a party, assuming the guys will have a corkscrew. All we ever did was shove the cork down the hole and say "you're welcome".
Some peoples' kids, I tell ya.
Posted by: Duncan on April 29, 2005 07:49 PMPeople that know nothing about wine can stick with the twist cap ones. www.bumwine.com has the selection they need.
Posted by: Jeremy on April 29, 2005 11:09 PM