Wine Tasting

Wine Tasting - one of my favorite pleasures in life

One of my most favorite events over the holidays is our annual trip to taste wine. It's the right combination of everything good in life: good company, beautiful scenery, delish wine and lots of laughs. The Prince William County wine scene has really only come about in the last 10ish (?) years and there are some pretty good wineries out there. This year we hit Pearmund (our regular) and Chateau O'Brien (quite new). These wineries are located in beautiful countryside. You can see a touch of it in the backgound of some of these pics but next year I will have to make a point of taking pictures of the facilities and grounds. They are gorgeous.

Looking tired. You think we could have dressed more for the occasion but I was so tired (aka hungover - see previous post) I really didn't care.The California experts try the Virginia wines...Typical Dad. Not sure what he is doing but I have seen this move (and countless others like it) many times in my life.Then, he got serious (for mom's sake)Mom/Kev in the Pearmund Cellar...Not too often that really, really good wine serves as the hair of the dog but it worked. Smelling the bung...Nice rack!!Mom and her wine. Life is Good.Even the experts learn a thing or two from the Chateau O'Brien winemaker... or else, they are just smiling politely.Wine snob...Oh, the wine was flowing...THE bottle... let's just say, Terri and Jim made the winemaker (and owner) VERY happy about this purchase.Bunch of Winos... Til next time... Cheers!