We stopped in Toulouse for three nights to catch up with Adrian (Twitchy), Delphine and their young boys Liam and Luca.
I (Jase) used to work with Twitchy and it was great to see them again.
Delphine and Twitchy were fantastic hosts and made us feel very welcome.
By chance, our visit coincided with a wine tasting and cheese party – could there be a more fitting party in France…?
They had procured an amazing cheese board from a world renowned cheese vendor!
Yes, there are world renowned cheese vendors – this particular shop had literally hundreds of every type of cheese - it was amazing but did pong a bit!
The cheese was lovely and the wine top notch!
The wine tasting was blind and engineered so nobody (using the special double decant method!) would know which wine they were tasting.
Of course, as is usually the case at blind tastings, there were the ‘wannabes’ and the ‘pretenders’.
In all we numbered 14
and we were blind tasting 7 different wines.
We had to pair the empty wine bottles with the anonymous tipples in each decanter.
The joint winners (not us) both correctly guessed 3 wines out of seven.
Not bad, but the overall performance was poor!
The total tally showed that we had only managed 12 matches.
This was pretty bad when you consider that we’d have got 14 right if we all guessed the same wine for every decanter – but where’s the fun in that!
We stopped in Toulouse for three nights to catch up with Adrian (Twitchy), Delphine and their young boys Liam and Luca. I (Jase) used to work with Twitchy and it was great to see them again. Delphine and Twitchy were fantastic hosts and made us feel very welcome. By chance, our visit coincided with a wine tasting and cheese party – could there be a more fitting party in France…? They had procured an amazing cheese board from a world renowned cheese vendor! Yes, there are world renowned cheese vendors – this particular shop had literally hundreds of every type of cheese - it was amazing but did pong a bit! The cheese was lovely and the wine top notch! The wine tasting was blind and engineered so nobody (using the special double decant method!) would know which wine they were tasting. Of course, as is usually the case at blind tastings, there were the ‘wannabes’ and the ‘pretenders’. In all we numbered 14
and we were blind tasting 7 different wines. We had to pair the empty wine bottles with the anonymous tipples in each decanter. The joint winners (not us) both correctly guessed 3 wines out of seven. Not bad, but the overall performance was poor! The total tally showed that we had only managed 12 matches. This was pretty bad when you consider that we’d have got 14 right if we all guessed the same wine for every decanter – but where’s the fun in that!
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