wine related life update

Just a quick somewhat relative note to all my readers.

I'd like to say, that with much delight - aside from missing my Monday evening classes - I have completed the third level of the Wine & Spirits Education Trust program.

Last night we sat for a 50 question multiple choice exam, followed by four essays, and then a blind tasting. I feel very good about the questions they asked, and was pleased to see a lack of Italian-focused essays - Italy and their wines are a definite weak point for me, but this class certainly helped me to improve what I do know.

The blind tasting was a Tawny Port, which is thankfully not a difficult wine to identify. The tasting metrics that we had to take on it left me feeling uneasy here and there, but I'm certain I scored enough points on that to at the very least pass the section.

It'll be a little while before I have any notification of my scores since the exams have to be shipped back to the UK and graded by what I can only hope is an elderly woman, who represents everything good and proper about British people, with a large red pen.

Cheers!