Wine Festival

Last weekend myself, Mark, Debbie and Chris ventured off to London to partake in a very middle class piss-up.

The Sunday Times Vintage Wine Festival is held annually at Westminster. The concept is simple: You pay £30 for a ticket and you get to spend three and half hours poncing about drinking as much quality wine as you can. If you want to be totally pretentious (like Mark and myself) you can record notes and scores in a book and also talk to the growers about their vineyards.

The whole event is a fantastic way to get totally wrecked without having to endure smoky pubs and larger louts. Better still, if you get too drunk you can help yourself to the many free samples of food to soak up the alcohol. Particular favourites this year were The Olive Company stall, Blacksticks Blue stall and a stall with exquisite truffles and dark chocolate.

Mark and I have now been able to sample the delights of our wine choices this weekend as our order arrived on Friday: a fabulous case of crisp, fruity Moldovan Sauvignon Blanc and three bottles of the most delightful white port (think burnt toffee and spicy ginger flavours).

Thanks to Debbie and Chris for joining us and making it an even more fantastic experience than last year :-)