Doughnut Plant Holiday Tasting - December 18, 2009

Oh yes, we're finally back... Not that we haven't been tasting anything - we've definitely taken advantage of  Astor's free tastings these past 2 weeks, but have been hermitty, lazy, last minute, [enter other lame excuse here] about filling out and bringing our trust worksheet.  Here are some highlights, or more aptly put - things we can actually remember right now:

1. One of the wines (which shall forever be lost to memory) smelled like detergent, specifically Tide (though I, Georgia, disagree on that front)

2. I was super impressed with the Renegade Run tasting - the Panama had that Chinese sour plum feeling/taste that I love so much, but the entire collection retailed for about $70+ per bottle making these rum an extravegant purchase/priveldge... but hey - made the tasting even more worthwhile, when else do you get to drink awesomely expensive free booze?

3. Ola had her first "real" encounter with cult favorite St-Germain, mixed in their classic cocktail with champagne, soda water and lemon.  As Ola puts it, it tastes like "A bubbily cloud, floating you up to the sparkily sun..." (Yes, that is verbatim, I can't even make that ish up.) Plus we both got some chuckles reading about the "le bohemian" man who picks these flowers in the mountains and rides his bicycle to the market, all for our boozing pleasure.  Thanks "le bohemian" Dude - this is important work.

4. Upon tasting one wine, I scrunched my nose, which caused the taster woman to ask what was wrong.  Turns out, it was corked and I knew it. Awesome.

Now, onto the present day tasting - here here to the return of our fabulous GO Worksheets:

 

Again, click on the images to enlarge (although again, that might not help with deciphering our wonderful penmanship).

Future tasting on the horizon:
Pork!
Pizza!
And, of course, more free booze at Astor!

Astor Center Tasting - November 19, 2009

Huzzah, hooray - we did it. And it was easy. Thank goodness for the worksheet (and the fact that I was able to convince Ola to come on account of there being a Riesling tasting yesterday).

Some highlights:

1. Tasty (and affordable) Rieslings - one of which Ola gave a "OMG, AMAZING" ranking.  A bit premature I think, but hey, this is all just for funzies, right?

2. Ola getting carded, despite wearing her "adult" jacket.  I commented that it might have been due to her polka dot wellies to which she replied, "Like she could have seen them from the tasting counter!" This girl does speak the truth sometimes...

3. Favorite observation of the day, "This Cognac smells like pool." And yes, quite frankly, it did.

  *Again, click on images to read our musings... if you can decipher our chicken scratch handwriting (yes, we'll work on that too, maybe).

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."

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"...it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair."

The companionship has been forged. The test run as been completed. The GO Worksheet drafted. We are ready.