Wine Tasting In Parkdale- Cafe Taste
I don’t know anything about wine. I am comfortable with that fact- my ignorance allows me to purchase and enjoy $10 bottles at home alone when I’m wallowing in self-pity. The fact that no one I know really knows anything about wine is also great, because when I come by with a bottle of $10 wine, they don’t know the difference either.
Early last week, I entered my name to win a spot at a wine tasting event….I’m entering every draw that I see, I am unemployed, and hope that I will someday win the big prize, sell it, so I can pay rent for one more month. My name was luckily drawn, so Saturday night, myself, Shelly and Shorty headed down to Queen West to sample some wine (read: get drunk for free). I should also note, that this wasn’t just a regular wine-tasting thing, it was a singles wine-tasting deal, put on by Meet Market Adventures.
The place we went to was called Cafe Taste and if you ever get the chance, I insist you try it. The guy who runs it, Jeremy knows pretty much everything in the world about wine. We taste 5 kinds of wine, and they were all paired with the appropraite cheese. I honestly don’t think I ever paired wine with cheese in my life, and I don’t think I can ever drink wine without cheese again. One of the cheeses tasted like farm. That was gross.
I must tell you about this guy, Jeremy. The guy was deliciously weird and intriguing. He had two diffent types of sideburns on his face. I would try to describe it, but I wouldn’t be doing it justice.
So, we tasted the wine, had bad conversation with single men, and then I got drunk. It was the sherry. It was probably the first time I had tried it since high-school, and the smell made me nostaligic for stealing booze from the homes of people I babysat. Some things I learned that night at the bar and at the two parties we went to after:
1) I don’t need to feel ashamed about being unemployed, I might still marry a doctor, even if I live in my grandma’s basement. If it can happen to the annoying bald guy with the giant mole on his cheek, then it can happen to me.
2) If a party is bad, drinking more margaritas is not going to make it better.
3) The GPS on blackberries works not only to help you figure out where you’re going, but also where you are.
How was your weekend?
Tags: cafe taste, wine tasting
April 27th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Even your “boring” weekend sounds like fun if it involved getting drunk! It does make everything a little better! (Or is that “Bitter” from your last post?). I do know wines, have been to really expensive pairings (not just cheese, you know), and still enjoyed a $2 bottle of Trader Joes award winning pink chardonnay this weekend. You might look into buying some of that while you are unemployed–still works wonders and you could get 5 bottles for your $10. Just trying to help!
April 27th, 2009 at 9:59 am
$2? I think it’s illegal in Canada to sell booze that cheap.
April 27th, 2009 at 11:03 am
When I was in university my fraternity used to get our own wine made at $3 a bottle… but I think the cheapest you can find in the liquor store up here is around $7…
I ended up at a local pub on Saturday night when the power went out (had to watch the games somewhere), and there was an intoxicated ‘professional’ there looking for something to pass the time, all the while complaining about how horrible Toronto is (note, this bar is in Scarborough) and how she wanted to go to Hamilton because it was so much better…
I realize that this story requires some knowledge of the area, so I’ll try to put it in broader terms for those of you outside of Ontario… think of Scarborough as Brooklyn, Toronto as Manhattan, and Hamilton as New Jersey…
Of course, this repulsion of Toronto may also have something to do with her line of work and her apparent lack of ability in picking up clients…
April 27th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Why are you hanging out in bars with hookers?
April 27th, 2009 at 11:44 am
I had nothing better to do this weekend…
April 30th, 2009 at 2:24 am
Sounds like a good time. A $10 bottle of wine can go a long way. Usually towards another $10 of wine :)
April 30th, 2009 at 10:27 am
I remember in University, we used to drink $5 bottles. One of those would get us liquored up for the whole night.