Really Short Notes from a Wine Tasting Weekend in Istria
- Wine tasting weekend is just a fancy way of saying I’m getting wasted this weekend. I like it.
- I’m off to Istria with the Brava Wine Company, run by the lovely April. She’s a smart cookie; she has made drinking wine a career. I’m paying attention.
- Istria is gorgeous. All the delicious wine they make here is just the boozy icing on the cake.
- Making good wine is about a combination of things – passion, dedicated effort, luck, weather. Drinking good wine is just common sense.
- At some point it comes down to taking note or drinking more wine; more wine always wins.
- April pulls out notes of dried plum. Someone else on the table tastes violets. I stick with what I know – “oh yum!”
- Each time I pour out the wine, my glass get refilled. This is by far my most favourite magic trick.
- Mixing wines is actually a fantastic idea.
- Wine tasting = no hangover. Eureka!
- When you come back with more alcohol than clothes in your bag, you know you’ve done something right.
Haha.. hilarious!
I haven’t been to a wine-tasting before (it feels a bit ‘posh’ to me), but now I am tempted! 
Well, wine makes for a classy drunk. Always a good thing, in my books
Did you mean to write ‘drunk’ and not ‘drink’? Either way, this is funnier – wine makes for a classy drunk! Ha!
I meant drunk
Cool! I also did wine tasting recently here at Napa Valley…I was completely drunk and supremely happy at the end of it
Not to mention the tour through the old caves where they store the wine to mature…
A fantastic combination, no? Btw, a lot of the wine makers there have Croatian roots. It’s another reason why I’d love to visit Napa Valley someday.
crapy……………………………………………….
Lol! love your writing. I came across your blog while googling ‘backpacking in Croatia’ for reasons unknown I am hell bent on making it to the old cities and their walls this year, and your articles just added fuel to the fire! So thanks