wine fans, wine club?

[impure]

someone at work mentioned the concept of a wine club, one where you meet each week and do a wine tasting and basically enjoy wine together whether it be trying new wines or learning more about the processes or history of certain wines. or even going on vinyard tours in the summer.

who's interested in doing this?

i'll ask my bosses for advice on how these things are best managed, i suspect they'll want to be in on this even.

[SEAN!]

Originally Posted by impure

someone at work mentioned the concept of a wine club, one where you meet each week and do a wine tasting and basically enjoy wine together whether it be trying new wines or learning more about the processes or history of certain wines. or even going on vinyard tours in the summer.

who's interested in doing this?

i'll ask my bosses for advice on how these things are best managed, i suspect they'll want to be in on this even.

im only in if we can drink ghb with the wine

[stephen_c]

employee discount?

[Phrenetic]

HORRY for ROOFIES!

[impure]

Originally Posted by SEAN!

im only in if we can drink ghb with the wine

are you coming on to me?

[impure]

Originally Posted by stephen_c

employee discount?

no, the LDB can't do that. some people might say it encourages alcoholism for us employees.....so no discount for us.

the only thing even close to a discount that's given to anyone is for the lisencee's, any business that has a liquor lisence get's the tax taken off under the assumption that they willl ad tax to the liquor when the sell it to the public.


what i might be able to do is arrange for us to go to the various wine tastings and other events put on by our suppliers. from the looks of things, there's a shit tonne of events that happen and a lot of money is spent on the guests there.

i also know when things go on sale or when there's promotions on too.

[ash1ee]

my job is like a wine club.
the ammount of amazing wines ive tried is so great.

and i get paid to do it.

[impure]

yay for wine!
where do you work at?

i'm enjoying my favorite chard right now, the jacobs's creek 05.

[ppcock]

Originally Posted by SEAN!

im only in if we can drink ghb with the wine

you stole my ghb joke.. you didnt even use proper engrish.

[impure]

Originally Posted by SEAN!

im only in if we can drink ghb with the wine

i love that you got more good karma for this childish mocking post than i did for my real post about a good idea.


really speaks to the mentality some people.


HEY FNK, GRADE 3 CALLED, YOU FAIL!

[mapleleaf4ever]

Oh man, If I was in Van, I would be down for a Wine Club.

When I was working at Wine Rack we were trained and certified to conduct guided tastings.

Just organize a group of friends. Everyone brings one bottle of something different and lay out a table for a tasting. It would be a whole lot more enjoyable tasting experience as well if you have someone with some sort of sommelier experience to assist with it.

[impure]

FYI bud, i work at the signature liquor store on alberni now, i can bring the expertise with me!
i think this might go well with a cheese club deal too.


mmmmm goat cheese!

[stephen_c]

^
goat cheese, too strong and musky.

[impure]

Originally Posted by stephen_c

^
goat cheese, too strong and musky.

i like very sharp cheese though :)
although sometimes some cheeses just taste like what a goat smells like and nothing more.
working in a deli i learned this the hard way. we used to sample everything at least once, and sometimes even that was too much.

[mapleleaf4ever]

Remember to match the Cheese to the Wines that you're sampling as well.

Parmesan, Cheddar, Camembert and maybe a little Stilton. It's a fun experiment to try the different texture and bodied Cheeses to see how that change the palette of the Wines.

[stephen_c]

Originally Posted by impure

~cut~
although sometimes some cheeses just taste like what a goat smells like and nothing more.

ROFL


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[fritz]

help i cant stop drinking this stuff, its like smirnoff ice on grad night

[gnosis]

I'd be in for a creative booze-up!

I'm a wino.

In fact, me cuz had a mate in from Europe, who hosted a wine-tasting for us, here, of the different regions and grapes used. Dude was verrrry well-versed (and, basically called us N. Americans, "heathens")
According to him, there are only really _4_ types of grapes that the ancient world created wine from. All the rest are bastardized from other plant strains (ie: merlot, cabernet, chiraz, etc...)

But, aside from the snobbery, I'm all up for honestly enjoying an evening of different wines.
Yes, I'll even bring a pallette-cleanser/appy.

...and, this is the exact same way I met our lovely and talented Carrie, as well as another board's CrazyDave.

Frosty
(enjoys the red)

[impure]

Originally Posted by gnosis

(ie: merlot, cabernet, chiraz, etc...)
(enjoys the red)

chiraz = shiraz

sorry, i can't help myself.


i'm going to be taking the "product knowledge" levels 1-3 courses that my employer offers.
level 3 is really intense, or so i've been told.

[mapleleaf4ever]

Just lil' suggestion...

an awesome palatte cleanse between tastes is a dry sparkling wine.

impure: Those Courses will be great fun. I did my Wine Council of Ontario Exam when I was working at Wine Rack and I learned TONS. You'll pick up a lot from customers that are regulars too. Also, if you have a Sommelier (a real one) on staff, pick their brain!

oh, and Shiraz can also be called Syrah.

[impure]

i was gonna mention that.

we have what are called "product consultants" basically someone who's gone through extensive training and now specializes in wine. i hope to have this position one day!

[stephen_c]

sommelier

Sommelier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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[mapleleaf4ever]

^ exactly. those are the guys that don't dick around about their Wine.

My old Manager at Wine Rack was in the process of doing her essays to get her top level or something.

[Liqwid]

if you enjoy wine/meat/cheese go here

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[impure]

when i was in albequerque in '06 my bestfriend, ixtla and i went on a couple wine tasting trips around town. we'd heard that new mexico was one of the better places in america for red's and we had to check it out
mmmm good memories, wine tours and then papa deaux!