When I had the opportunity to visit France last week, I tried to go to someplace new and try something that I've never done before. Since I don't drink too much liquor, I braved myself to go to Bordeaux where shops are famous for their
wine tasting events. This attempt is my simple way of convincing myself that my life is still fulfilling and wonderful because its rants about how the world sucks has been consuming me for the past months.
The first winery I stopped at offered food tasting too. I immediately went towards the various cheese delicacies where garlic breads were cut into small strips that seems to remind a person that he is just tasting food and not having lunch. This is what I loved about French, they let you take samples again and again as long as you don't treat their shops as extensions of your kitchen. The staff was pouring grape wines from a bucket so I immediately grabbed a glass to taste them. After sipping every wine, I noticed that people pour the remains back to the bucket where they get it. Thinking it was rude and wasteful, I grabbed my
personal digital assistant, took shot of the monkeys, and Bluetooth the image, only to know later that it's a normal custom for tasters to return excess wine to the bucket.
