Wine Tasting

We checked Today's activities schedule for the RV Park, saw a Wine Tasting Party listed, and didn't hesitate. Everyone was asked to bring a snack dish or an hors d'oeuvre along with a bottle of wine, preferably from their home State. Did they think we were from California or New York . . . or France? Who wants to drink wine from Kansas?

Fortunately we didn't have any Kansas wine with us, so I ran down to the liquor store and picked up a bottle of wine from Texas. After all, we are "Winter Texans". Carole prepared a platter of shrimp finger sandwiches, which we took along with our bottle of Texas wine.

The Wine Tasting Party was held in the Rec Hall with wines displayed by red, white, pink, or homemade. There were wines from California, New York, Texas, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Illinois, and Ontario. There were also five homemade wines offered including a plum, cranberry, and a rhubarb. The food was set up on separate tables and represented quite a wide variety including meatballs, sausages, cheeses, shrimp, veggies, dips of all kinds, and everything imaginable on a cracker.
















We enjoyed sampling as many of the wines as we could get to as well as "pigging out" on the great variety of snacks and hors d'oeuvers. The homemade cranberry wine was particularly good, although I found out later the winemaker had added vodka to it. No wonder it was so good!


After everyone had their plates and glasses full, we sat at tables where we had the opportunity to meet people from all over. That's Carole with her plate and wine on the left in green. Th MC made a round of introductions of newcomers and then many people took turns, microphone in hand, telling stories. A good time was had by all. We'll certainly attend the next Wine Tasting Party in the Park.






However, next year I'm going to surprise everyone with a bottle of Kansas wine!