29 corks popped!!!I drive two hours to go to wine club.
Why?
Because its worth it! Every time
We had such a blast at this last wine club, and like always, it involves meeting new people and catching up with close friends. The theme for Friday night was all about Syrah’s. There were six different bottles of Syrah all from different wineries perfectly bundled up in brown paper to keep their identity’s secret. Everyone started on different numbers, slowly, or quickly, working their way tasting all six bottles. Music was on our minds as we swished, swirled, and smelled because as we tickled our tastebuds we matched the different wines to different songs we thought fit the wine well. It was definitely fun thinking of different music for different tastes. Some of the wines were strong, some more mild, and some exploded with personality inside our mouths.
We soon migrated to the dinning room table, bringing our creative energies, ready to get our paintbrushes wet and wild with watercolor. Fischer had set up a spot for each of us with paint and brushes, and soon the colors started diving onto the paper. All the wine bottles were front and center and we each picked which wine label we’d like to paint. I chose a 2006 Syrah with a beautiful swirly blue sky overlooking a barn and silo. It was fun to paint! and chat and listen to all of Fischers tips because little did I know, she was a watercolor instructor.
(Sarah dropped some water on my perfect blue sky on accident and it kinda threw off the perfect swirls I had goin, but it still looks cool)
Here’s the real wine label picture for your to compare
We all told stories, found out new facts about each other, sipped our wine, and dabbled in our paints.
It was an evening full of laughter, good food, good friends, and good wine. Totally worth each mile I drove to make it there.
Here’s the wine list
#1 Black Oak – Zinfandel (Fischer snuck a Zinfandel into our Syrah party to throw us off)
#2 Bergevin – Syrah
#3 Snoqualmie – Syrah
#4 Snoqualmie – Syrah
#5 Chateau Ste Michelle – Syrah
#6 Forgeron – Syrah
We of course had delicious chocolate, as well as covered strawberries, tasty cheese, and toothpicked shrimp kabobs to refresh our evening.
A few pictures and videos were taken that I will try to gather up from people and post later on.
Here’s some people’s song lists to match up with the wine
1-Cry me a river
2-Cold cold heart
3- Please please me
4-Love me tender
5- Live and let die
6- Its a jolly holiday
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1- Summertime
2- Black velvet
3- Horse with no name
4- Oompa loompas (hahaha)
5- Lay down Sally
6- Yummy for my tummy
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1- I kissed a girl/or / Oops I did it again
2-African American Church Choir
3- Mellow Yellow
4- Lucky (Ben Folds)
5- She Wolf
6- Bad Romance/ or/ Eye of the Tiger
