Friday, January 19, 2007
Last night, I attended what was basically an introduction to wine seminar at the Ajax Public Library's Main Branch. What I didn't know going in was that the seminar was being run by one of my old high school history teachers. (For those reading this who went to Dunbarton or Pine Ridge, do you remember Jeff McIlveen?)
The talk he gave was a good primer for people just starting out on their wine education. While much of what he said was covered in Wine For Dummies, a book I read last year, it was a good refresher, and Jeff actually cleared up several things that I was still confused about after finishing the Dummies book. For instance, I finally have a better handle on VQA and tannens. The Dummies books left me somewhat bewildered in those areas.
After the talk was over, I introduced myself as a former student of Jeff's at Pine Ridge (my brain still thinks of him as Mr. McIlveen), and then he, his wife and several others who attended the seminar retired to the Safari in Pickering Village for a wine tasting.
It was a great night, with talk of wine, wineries and teachers from Pine Ridge.
The talk he gave was a good primer for people just starting out on their wine education. While much of what he said was covered in Wine For Dummies, a book I read last year, it was a good refresher, and Jeff actually cleared up several things that I was still confused about after finishing the Dummies book. For instance, I finally have a better handle on VQA and tannens. The Dummies books left me somewhat bewildered in those areas.
After the talk was over, I introduced myself as a former student of Jeff's at Pine Ridge (my brain still thinks of him as Mr. McIlveen), and then he, his wife and several others who attended the seminar retired to the Safari in Pickering Village for a wine tasting.
It was a great night, with talk of wine, wineries and teachers from Pine Ridge.
// posted by Chris @ 9:25 AM 
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