Diana and I went to Vintage Ohio yesterday for a little wine tasting action. Basically it's a collection of Ohio wineries all in one place with little tents to try out their stuff.
For $18, you get a glass and a little score card with 72 squares on it. Each time you get a pour, they mark off a square. Four or five pours is probably a glass by my standards. I ended up getting seven or eight, and I think Diana may have had around 12. I was driving, so I didn't want to go nuts. Besides, the lines started to get long by mid-afternoon, and that wasn't as fun.
Not very many wines really jumped out at me. The non-chilled varieties were actually downright warm because it was around 80 degrees, so they were a good ten degrees warmer than normal. I tend to think of myself as more of a dry kind of guy, but some of the sweeter varieties were good too. I haven't learned enough about it yet, but I'm not sure that Ohio has the right soil to grow the right grapes that make gee-whiz wine. I guess I'm still trying to figure out what I really like after years of sipping from an adult juice box.
They had some Ohio cheese vendors there too, and I gotta tell you, that's something I can get into. I've learned that I'm dating a cheese freak too. The way to her heart is not flowers, but cheese. That works, because I appreciate cheese a lot more than flowers.
So this afternoon, we had cheese fries at Outback. Not exactly gourmet, but it'll do. :)
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