Last night our very own drinks expert Alex Ririe held a fabulous wine tasting event at our office, making a pretty rowdy bunch of creatives even rowdier.
When Alex isn’t being a Business Director at CPB, she holds wine tasting evenings. And she’s very well qualified to do so – she is a (rather rare) Associate of the Institute of Wines and Spirits, having recently completed her Level 4 Diploma in Wine & Spirits and even winning the prestigious IWSC Waitrose Scholarship in 2013.
And so, after much begging on our part, she finally treated us to a fabulous wine tasting evening for 27 of our most passionate boozers.
We tasted seven very different wines with particularly unusual grape variances, which she matched with a suitable choice of cheese for each. We tasted some amazing wines not only from France, Italy and Spain, but also from Austria, Hungary and Armenia. And as we sipped and slurped (never spitting), Alex gave us some great facts about the wines, their provenance and what foods to match them to. Cleverly, she included some paper so we could scribble some notes, or we’d have never remembered in the morning…