Desole mes petits.... I try to keep on top of blogging and then , well yeah it doesn't happen.
So anyway, don't have time to recap on two weeks just now, but I just wanted to real quick chat about my homework for my oenology class-history of wine!
We were sent on a mission to find a caviste (wine shop) in our neighborhood and that these were designated by just having wine-when you see one you can't miss it. Well I wasn't able to find one in my 'hood until last week with Nathan, turns out it's less than a block away...oops.
Well I wasn't really feeling this assignment because I had to write a transcript of the conversation down and I was nervous about grilling someone about all these wines.
J'ai plus de questions pour vous monsieur, vous pouvez aide-lui avant moi. (I whipped that out out of nowhere! Translation: I have many questions for you monsieur, you can help him before me.) I said that because there was a rather grumpy older gentleman who entered the caviste after me who kept eyeballing me and edging closer to the caviste owner.
When it was finally my turn, I was able to ask most everything in French and understood most of everything he said back...even though I said I was a student and it was clear I wasn't a native french speaker, he didn't slow down his speech one bit...AHH! I felt bad just wasting his time with silly questions and the other part of the hw was to try some wine anyway, so I asked him what kind of wine he would suggest with beef? He wanted more details...I was pretty embarrassed to tell him my dinner was going to be hamburgers avec frites (with french fries) but ce n'est pas grave, he offered me one called Binet Jacquet (aw cute, it rhymes) and here's more info.
I got it for a bargain of 12 euros though, I'll let you know how I like it.
Bonsoir!
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