jeudi, juin 15, 2006
Blanc, rouge, porròn
A civilised evening gone terribly wrong... or right.
A wine and cheese tasting I went to a while ago at Paul and Karine's house, with frenchie Franck going to lots of effort to have lots of white and red wines and lots of cheeses to match with each wine, even going so far so as to have a little card next to each cheese with the names of the matching wines. So civilised I made plans to go out afterwards, assuming that it would end at a civilised hour...
Perhaps if the first tasting had not been only white wines without cheese, resulting in the time being after 10 before we were even allowed to look at the cheeses, perhaps if we hadn't started the evening with a couple of gin and tonic aperitifs, perhaps if the porròn hadn't come out... But it did, and the evening turned into a drunken mess of very tasty haphazardly swilled wines not at all matched to their appropriate cheeses, because nobody was able to focus enough to read the cards!
A porròn is a spanish wine drinking implement kind of like a cross between a carafe and a teapot, which the spaniards use to pour the wine at a full arm lengths distance into their wide open mouths. We used it to pour wine over each others faces, sometimes from a distance of several metres. Needless to say, the floor needed mopping and several dresses needed a wash by the time I had to get the night bus, having long since missed the last metro home.
A wine and cheese tasting I went to a while ago at Paul and Karine's house, with frenchie Franck going to lots of effort to have lots of white and red wines and lots of cheeses to match with each wine, even going so far so as to have a little card next to each cheese with the names of the matching wines. So civilised I made plans to go out afterwards, assuming that it would end at a civilised hour...
Perhaps if the first tasting had not been only white wines without cheese, resulting in the time being after 10 before we were even allowed to look at the cheeses, perhaps if we hadn't started the evening with a couple of gin and tonic aperitifs, perhaps if the porròn hadn't come out... But it did, and the evening turned into a drunken mess of very tasty haphazardly swilled wines not at all matched to their appropriate cheeses, because nobody was able to focus enough to read the cards!
A porròn is a spanish wine drinking implement kind of like a cross between a carafe and a teapot, which the spaniards use to pour the wine at a full arm lengths distance into their wide open mouths. We used it to pour wine over each others faces, sometimes from a distance of several metres. Needless to say, the floor needed mopping and several dresses needed a wash by the time I had to get the night bus, having long since missed the last metro home.
# posted by Jenny @ 10:01 
