MmMmMmMmMm...not

So we were lucky enough to have a wine tasting at the wine cellar.. ((this is why our guide was asking about abstinence, it turned out....))

When 'tasting' wine, you must follow these steps:

1) Look at the wine, REALLY examine it, move it around in the glass to make sure it is wine.

2) Smell the wine, really get a good wif, decide what kind of wine you think it is, notice the fragrance, let it fill your nostrils with its [pungent] wine smell

3) Taste the wine, let it touch all of your tongue, chomp the wine, make a weird face while you are chomping, really taste the nasty wine flavor, determine its stage of maturation, swallow, try not to vomit.

We tasted four wines. Below are my observations, with some additions from our tour guide...

Wine One: Made in Kromeriz, young, white, tasted like wine.

Wine Two: Sweeter, still white, smelled like wine.

Wine Three: Tour guide said it smelled like flowers and was high quality. I thought it was white and smelled and tasted like wine.

Wine Four: Red Wine, very dry. Almost puked. Way too harsh for my taste.

As it ended up, I would taste a sip of the wine and give the rest to Ulrik and Rachel. haha*

We had a tour guide who only spoke Czech, so that was interesting.. ;) The young wine from South Moravia was stored in the wine cellar. The Kromeriz vineyards were destroyed during the Thirty Years War. The guide said it would take 25 years to truly be good at telling whether wine was good or not. I guess I will never be an expert! ;)