Saturday, August 22 - Marsha loves to have a party! One of the things she likes to do is purchase wines from the different areas we travel and then have a group of family and friends over for a wine tasting party. This was our 4th year with fourteen different wines to taste. Wines from California, Arizona and Michigan were on the table this year.
Kelly and Dave act as the host and hostess.
Our son-in-law, Dave, acts as the wine sommelier, and did a wonderful job again this year. He hams it up pretty good giving a prompt description of the wine, what foods it is best served with, and what hidden tastes to look for during the tasting. We have a feeling he has some “wine country” in his genes.
The panel of judges.
Dave gives each taster a more than adequate sample of wine to smell, swirl and taste. We then simple hold up our fingers rating it from one to five. Not very scientific, but we like to keep it pretty simple. We judge the reds and whites separately and then at the end choose the over-all winner between the best red and the best white. This year's winner was Unruly Red. A California Red Wine bottled in 2013.
This year’s winner flaked by past winners.
We also had a few games of cornhole as a warm-up activity while we waited for the tasters to arrive. Of course, there was plenty of food to eat and tons of “catching-up” on the latest happening of friends and family.
Look at Paul’s form.
We all had a wonderful time and can't wait till next summer to see what wines Marsha manages to collect over the winter.
Before the big wine tasting party, Paul borrowed Dave’s pressure washer.
That’s not wet. It’s the difference between the dirty and cleaned area. What a difference!
Marsha finished another plastic bag mat. She is so proud of her stripes.
Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see y’all back real soon. Have a great day!
Your wine sampling looks like more fun than sampling at the vineyards. Next, maybe a beer sampler?
ReplyDeleteToo much fun, I like Bill's Idea of a beer sampling party too. Love sampling new beers.
ReplyDeleteLooks like everyone had a great time. I hope you included Paul's wine in the tasting. I'll bet it scored high.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great time with family and friends:) Love the title of the winner! Nice cleaning job, Paul! What a difference! Looks like it was a beautiful day.
ReplyDeleteMarsha, your mat is so cute with the stripes. Having to collect enough bags of each color couldn't have been easy. Great job:)
What a great time with family and friends:) Love the title of the winner! Nice cleaning job, Paul! What a difference! Looks like it was a beautiful day.
ReplyDeleteMarsha, your mat is so cute with the stripes. Having to collect enough bags of each color couldn't have been easy. Great job:)
Congratulations on another successful wine tasting event. Looks like another fun time.
ReplyDeleteOne year there was this woman in our group at Quartzsite, Connie I think, she showed me how to do the mats but I didn't write it down. When we meet up to exchange needles, please show me again
ReplyDeleteCareful you keep wine tasting like that and the local restaurants will get jealous.
ReplyDeleteGreat job on the rug but like Pam said it must take quite some time to collect all the bags.
I think i see a new power washer in Paul's future.
Be Safe and Enjoy!
It's about time.
Can't believe its already the 4th annual.
ReplyDeleteSo glad you had fun with your wine tasting party again this year. I remember your blogs from the previous years too. Sounds like a great way to spend the day.
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A great annual tradition...always look forward to your post to see where this year's wines came from. You had a perfect day for it!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great thing to do and fun too.. I'd have trouble keeping the wine long enough to share!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a very fun party.
ReplyDeleteNeat idea about the wine tasting, except we would probably drink it before we got home. We have saved some wine from Napa to share with the grown kids this year. Maybe we will have an event like yours next summer.
ReplyDeleteI see the corn hole game is popular around your house also. We watched some corn hole players in Springfield, IL playing a while back and they all placed their bags near the hole on every toss. I'm glad I didn't play against them for a beer. Evidently it is a league game at that particular tavern.
When are you heading out again and what route are you going to take this year? Back to the Southwest?