The 3rd Annual Marble Mountain Wine Festival and Open Mike
Tags: Food and Wine And Entertainment
Wow! The wine bash was an absolutely phenomenal success. Big thanks go to Sandra and Warren Johnston for their input, guidance, materials and enthusiastic participation. Thanks go Jean, Sandra and Warren for all their time, effort and work in judging all the submissions. The three of them dedicated a good part of the evening toward the wine tasting, sipping, swirling, viewing and evaluating. They began the process before 7:00 p.m. and finally finished some time around 9:00 p.m. That's real dedication. Johnston's Brewing Room provided good prizes for the winners and educational material for all the attendees.
A generous thank you also goes out to all the people who submitted their home-made wines for judging. In all, there were 16 wines submitted and all of them were consumed once the judging was completed. There were plently of good dishes that helped fill our tummies with more than just fruit of the vine, thankfully. I tend to worry that people will end up in in the ditch or something like that without enough solid food in their tummies. Thank you to all of you who provided all the excellent foods for the event.
Another big thanks goes out to all our wonderful new friends, Det and Gudi, who will from now on be on our invitation list, if I get a copy of their email addresses, who came to the wine shindig and helped make it a tremendously fun party. A huge thank you goes out to our new friend, Rob, for his wonderful wine song. Rob, how can we get a copy of that? Thanks go out to Warren for his banjoing. Thanks, also, to our old(ish) friends and repeat wine fest revelers.
You want details, you say? I should spill the dirt on enthusiastic partyers? Who am I to argue. Well, here goes .... Fasten your seatbelts!
The tasting was done in the house by our superb tasters while the rest of us gathered on the patio and in the screen room. While the pros got down to business, the rest of us were busy getting up to speed in the spirit of the spirits, drinking the bottles that were not being evaulated and munching on all the enticing goodies.
Eventually the tasting came around to the part where Popular Choice judging required that willing partyers did their part to choose what wine that they liked best. By then the revelers were feeling their juice and were tossing the extra vino over their shoulders into the bay tree. The tree looks perky and the leaves are shiny today! (Jutta and Betty Jean, the bay tree says thanks for the wine and would you please serve it a white burgundy or pino noir next time? Those go better with bay leaves.)
A little later, Rob took out his guitar and his squeezy thing and played and sang for us. We are beyond thrilled to have such a tremendous talent among us. His house should be completed soon and he and his wife are in the process of getting landed immigrant status so they can be here full time. We are looking forward to that day. Were their house not already being built on Ross Point, we would try to persuade them to move to 'da mountain.
As usual, Tom and Kit commandeered the music and played House Of The Rising Sun until we all got our fill and then some. From there, they moved on to rock & roll and Tom and I were moved to dance. Then Tom and Irene were moved to dance. Then Tom and Jean were moved to dance. Then Tom wasn't able to move at all. This might have had something to do with the knee surgery he had a week and a half ago but it might have had more to do with wine, just saying.
Warren was moved to make music and sing and the rest of us were moved to sing along with him. For the record, there was no dancing on the table. Everyone went home by 1:30 a.m. Wendy, Linda and Iris - we need you to come dance at the parties! A party just isn't the same without you.
Wow! The wine bash was an absolutely phenomenal success. Big thanks go to Sandra and Warren Johnston for their input, guidance, materials and enthusiastic participation. Thanks go Jean, Sandra and Warren for all their time, effort and work in judging all the submissions. The three of them dedicated a good part of the evening toward the wine tasting, sipping, swirling, viewing and evaluating. They began the process before 7:00 p.m. and finally finished some time around 9:00 p.m. That's real dedication. Johnston's Brewing Room provided good prizes for the winners and educational material for all the attendees.
A generous thank you also goes out to all the people who submitted their home-made wines for judging. In all, there were 16 wines submitted and all of them were consumed once the judging was completed. There were plently of good dishes that helped fill our tummies with more than just fruit of the vine, thankfully. I tend to worry that people will end up in in the ditch or something like that without enough solid food in their tummies. Thank you to all of you who provided all the excellent foods for the event.
Another big thanks goes out to all our wonderful new friends, Det and Gudi, who will from now on be on our invitation list, if I get a copy of their email addresses, who came to the wine shindig and helped make it a tremendously fun party. A huge thank you goes out to our new friend, Rob, for his wonderful wine song. Rob, how can we get a copy of that? Thanks go out to Warren for his banjoing. Thanks, also, to our old(ish) friends and repeat wine fest revelers.
You want details, you say? I should spill the dirt on enthusiastic partyers? Who am I to argue. Well, here goes .... Fasten your seatbelts!
The tasting was done in the house by our superb tasters while the rest of us gathered on the patio and in the screen room. While the pros got down to business, the rest of us were busy getting up to speed in the spirit of the spirits, drinking the bottles that were not being evaulated and munching on all the enticing goodies.
Eventually the tasting came around to the part where Popular Choice judging required that willing partyers did their part to choose what wine that they liked best. By then the revelers were feeling their juice and were tossing the extra vino over their shoulders into the bay tree. The tree looks perky and the leaves are shiny today! (Jutta and Betty Jean, the bay tree says thanks for the wine and would you please serve it a white burgundy or pino noir next time? Those go better with bay leaves.)
A little later, Rob took out his guitar and his squeezy thing and played and sang for us. We are beyond thrilled to have such a tremendous talent among us. His house should be completed soon and he and his wife are in the process of getting landed immigrant status so they can be here full time. We are looking forward to that day. Were their house not already being built on Ross Point, we would try to persuade them to move to 'da mountain.
As usual, Tom and Kit commandeered the music and played House Of The Rising Sun until we all got our fill and then some. From there, they moved on to rock & roll and Tom and I were moved to dance. Then Tom and Irene were moved to dance. Then Tom and Jean were moved to dance. Then Tom wasn't able to move at all. This might have had something to do with the knee surgery he had a week and a half ago but it might have had more to do with wine, just saying.
Warren was moved to make music and sing and the rest of us were moved to sing along with him. For the record, there was no dancing on the table. Everyone went home by 1:30 a.m. Wendy, Linda and Iris - we need you to come dance at the parties! A party just isn't the same without you.
Comments
Posted by null At 06:28:35 PM On 2009/10/10 | - Website - |
Sorry I didn't make it last night but hit with a miserable cold -fever,chills,etc.-wouldn't have wanted to pass along--instead home under a blanket with wood socks & flannels. Sounds like it was a good time.
Posted by Wendy At 10:29:49 PM On 2009/10/10 | - Website - |