Wine Festival

A few days ago while randomly flipping through a magazine at happy hour, I saw and ad for a festival of wine. Yesterday we scored some free tickets and headed off to the convention center to partake in one of France's greatest attributes. Now obviously everyone knows this is a bad idea. I mean how can anything good come of tasting wines from about 80 different wine makers. It can't, and as anticipated, the wine worked its magic. We were a little overwhelmed at first because there are just so many stands that it is hard to know which ones to visit. Plus there is the added pressure of actually looking like you might buy some of the wine you are tasting so as not to be a complete free-loader. You know where I'd want to be at this wine convention if I were trying to sell some wine? In the third row. I wonder if this is tactic or if there is any kind of strategy when setting up a booth at one of these things. Here's the thing about row 3 of 4. In the first row everyone is kind of warming up to figuring out how to ask for wine and being polite and well, to be frank, is still sober. Row 2 things start to loosen up a bit, as the wine is flowing a little better and there are fewer qualms about asking to try wines. Row 3 is where the winds catch the sails though. At that point, we'd tried about 10 wines (don't freak out, it is literally just a taste test), but we were indeed feeling a little less inhibited. We had only bought one bottle of wine before row 3 and came out of row 3 with 4 more. Now sure, that could be because the wines were better, but I doubt it. Poor row 4 we didn't even get to attempt. We were a little wined up and some friends who weren't big wine fans were tired of waiting for us while we tried to figure out if the flavors were dirt or trees or cherries. As to be expected, the night didn't stop there and somehow I woke up this morning with a bruise I don't remember being inflicted with. Right. Well done wine exhibition, you took my money (hopefully for good wines), got me toasted and somehow phantomly wounded. Wine Festival 3, Kate -3.