If you drink a box of wine

[Sundae]

For the record...

I used to work in a four star country house hotel. It wasn't five star because the owners at the time refused to compromise the historic setting with a swimming pool (long since resolved).

We had a couple of wine tastings while I worked there. No idea why. Perhaps so the dining room waitresses could sound professional about the wine? Who knows - we had a sommalier of course, and I (for one) only worked the breakfast shift!

So I thought I had a reasonable handle on wine. That and tasting it at home etc. Nope. We went to a wine and cheese tasting on a skiing holiday. Cost something minute (about £4 at the time I think) which was a bargain given we went home too pissed and full to eat dinner! It started with a "blind" test - you had descriptions of the five wines and the five cheeses and had to match them up. We did okay - better on the cheese than the wine. The cheese was thanks to me, the wine ended up being guesswork.

Then it was a price test - match the wines (identified this time as 1-5 to match the descriptions) to the price. I got them almost exactly reversed. Our friend got the two top wines in the two top slots, so we got a bottle of the priciest as a prize. Given that my ex didn't drink, me & M had a rare old time knowing we were knocking back expensive wine!

I know I like Rioja. Anything else I leave to the experts.
Except cheese I mean.