This weekend we went to the UK Wine Show at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London. For the price of only £8 each you get 7 hours of free wine, port and cognac tastings, as well a heap of cheese, crackers and other buscuits. Like a kid in a candy store, this was a great oppurtunity to indulge, and indulge we did. There was wine from all over the world and we tried wine from Australia (of course), France, Spain, Italy, Greece, California, Argentina, Chile and various other places I can’t remember
As one would guess, unlimited wine samples rapidly leeds to a messy crowd, and I was rapidly heading toward TMD status. The highlights of the actual evening were some nice French Champagne, a busty red from Greece, one of the nicer Penfolds Bin’s, some Tawny Port and Remy Martin Cognac. The Wines of Australia stand had some old delights from home that I’d missed, like Xanadu and Madfish, so it was good to have them again.
They had the most delicious food as well, Cath had roast duck breast, and I had Caramelised Shallot, and Goats Cheese tart with heaps of vege’s on the side.
After leaving the show, we walked straight down the road to the Walkabout pub which is always a classy affair, and this was no different. Several pints and a few shots (this crazy South African bought me three shots of tequila at the bar for taking a photo of him and his girlfriend), and the night was almost over. Not before trying some horrible nasty shots in test tubes bought from Test tube girl:
I’ve included a blanked out photo to protect anonymity:
And then destroyed it, who needs anonymity anyway
Had the biggest sleep on the train on the way home, which was totally excellent. Pretty good night all up.
