Surprise Date Night #3

Ok, ok, I am WAY behind in blogging. I could write an entirely separate blog lamenting on the reasons as to why I haven't kept all (read: all = both of you, mom and Sweet Sarah) of my faithful readers entertained and inspired in the last week, but alas, I won't bore you with the details.

I am happy to report that surprise date night #3 was a success!

We attended a Wine Tasting and education class hosted by Blue Canyon in Twinsburg followed by dinner (this time I wasn't taking any chances. I made reservations for dinner to immediately follow the tasting).  Check it out here.  Doesn't it look fun?!  [I know!  I totally scored on planning this one. ]

The event was led by a local wine distributor and it was a lot of fun and very interesting. What set this event apart from other wine tasting I had attended was the set up and style. Rather than tasting one type of wine and moving on to the next, we actually tasted two types of the SAME wine -same grapes from different regions...or in most cases, one European wine, one Californian wine. It made for a great compare/contrast tasting.

This particular night was completely focused on red wines, so Sweet Sarah and I enjoyed that even more. It's not as though we won't drink white wine, but our preference really is red.

Zinfandel.  Malbec (our personal go-to), Syrah.  Tempranillo.  Four grapes.  Eight wines.

Now if you're in to wines and tasting, this would be your thing.  It was really fascinating to taste the same grape, grown in different parts of the world.  As you might imagine, they were very different from each other.

Blue Canyon did an excellent job with this too.  They brought out appetizers, had a full place setting and the wine rep really walked you through the structure and tasting of the wine.  Plus, throw in meeting new people and socializing and I'm a happy girl!

Now, I wish I could show you a lot of pictures and fun shots of the wine and the bottles and well, US, at this event.  But....I can't.  It never occurred to me to take pictures.  Hopefully Sweet Sarah will back me up that this really happened.  AND, more importantly, that she gave it a two thumbs up!