A few weekends ago I joined a bus-load of very happy people on a trip to four vineyards for the Lovedale Long Lunch. My friend Jane Maree Perkins had organised the trip and some of the girls from work had already signed up. So when a last minute ticket came up I was keen to join in the fun. Despite the fact that we hardly saw JMP (she was busy being "in charge") we had a really fun time. We visited four vineyards, drank enough wine to feel flushed and ate a variety of yummy things. We also managed to come up with some very wanky ways to describe wine. I'm still not convinced that everyone else was right when they said my suggestion of 'ticklish' as a descriptor was just stupid. But I'm happy to concede that it wasn't nearly as wanky as our winner of the wankiest description of a wine competition. This accolade went to Anthony Cook's description of an Allandale Shiraz as "a timely reminder that life is not a fashionable cafe". It's a good job Anthony is good at making up wanky descriptions of wine, because he's hopeless at choosing food. While the rest of us were chowing down on some very delicious trout, he chose what can only be described as a poo curry. But in keeping with the up mood of the day, he didn't complain and simply washed it down with a little more red wine.
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