After becoming buddies with Ryan, Megan and Marc's wedding planner, over their wedding weekend, he took down my email and said he'd send me info on events he helps put on. Well, lo and behold, an email came in from him last week about a Food and Wine festival at the Ronald Reagan Building here in DC, and that there email contained a 100% off coupon code for special guests like me. Amazing.
So after work, I biked on down Pennsylvania Avenue to meet a few girlfriends for the Second Annual. Sommelier Showdown event.
Honestly, I have no idea how these Sommeliers did it. They were given nine glasses of red wines and piece of paper that listed different types (whether or not there were nine listed or more than nine was a question that I don't think was ever answered). While being timed, they tasted each wine and had to match it to it's type on the page. First one to get all nine correct won.
Now I am not even close to a wine snob, but I had heard previously that Leah Cheston from Ris was very good. And to whoever told me that before: thank you for the wonderful conversation starter during their tasting. She's the brunette, second from the end on the left. Well, she took home the win! I heard a few of them later say that there were four wines made from the same grapes all from Northern California, and so that made it pretty difficult. Um...yeah. I'm telling you, no clue how she ever got them all paired up.
The spread at this event was amazing. Oysters on the half shell, clams on the half shell. Three types of macaroni and cheese (with mushrooms, with lobster and something else. I stopped looking when I saw with lobster). Three types of risotto (with winter vegetables, with duck and red wine, with truffles). Tons of cheeses and baguettes.
And then there was all that great wine.
I didn't take photos of too many of the wines really, but I got a couple.
Here's Maggie trying one of my favorite wines of the night. Bottle pictured below.
Maggie and Megan noshing on some of that aforementioned Mac N' Cheese.
And here's the whole team.
Lots of comments on my outfit last night, to which of course I told everyone that I felt like Blair Waldorf. Really needed to do more with my hair, but alas, no time.
Also just found out Blair and Dan get together in Season 6 ("Dair")?!?! What?!?! On a related note, I really need to get to the end of this show so I can stop talking about it. Really not a cool topic for a 28 year old lady to be discussing at a classy DC wine event. Seriously.
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