The fun of sharing wine with others. Seville 27 Jan.

What a fun week of wine tastings! Lots of different wine with lots of fun people. Do the people at wine tastings have to be “fun” people to have a good time? Not necessarily. The only hard requisite to have fun at a wine tasting is to be open to all the wines and not be a wine snob. Check out my previous post on how to identify one. If you avoid the wine snob (very easy here, we have very few of them) and show up to a tasting with an open mind then you will probably have a fun time. That is what wine can do, bring people together and get them talking, usually about wine. You might say that talking about wine doesn’t sound fun. Well the wine is the common denominator, that leads to other great conversation. I would also say that talking about wine can be fun in and of itself, but I am a wine geek.There were many of my fellow wine geeks at Seville’s January tasting, along with a good Italian Primitivo and Cabernet Sauvignon. Yet the Crowd Favorite was a Lambrusco, Cleto Chiarli Lambrusco Grasparossa Centenario Amabile from the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. There was the option to have wild boar stew at this tasting and the Lambrusco did exceptional when paired with it. It is also the favorite wine, of one of our local wine shop owners, to have with a meat lovers pizza. I am not sure that I would have thought about that, but great conversation, starting with wine, often leads to great ideas. That’s the fun of wine tastings!