Booze!

[bladespark]

Art and the Vinyard is a festival here every year. It runs three days, and it's the three days of the whole year I go "en femme" and wear a dress. There's just something about the "get completely fancy with a straw hat and drink fancy booze" thing. I dunno. It's the one time I don't mind just going in total lady mode. It's hard to put into words, tbh. It's a bit cross-dressing? But it's a bit just... I look amazing as FUCK in a dress that flatters my hips, and while most of the time I haaaaaaaaaaaaate my hips, if I'm going to put up with them, maybe a few days a year I can wear a dress that flatters them and look sexy as fuck. And for some reason this is the event where I do that.

Also I get drunk.

Also it's SO GOOD, the wine.

Today was day one of three. So far the winner is Saginaw Vinyard pepper jelly wine, which was unexpected. They do fruit wines and fascinating things that I do always enjoy, so they're usually one of the top contenders when I'm considering what to take home at the end of everything, but jalapeno wine was not something I would have expected, even from them. But it's SO GOOD. Unless something really awesome comes up, that's probably my bottle this year.

Comments

[thewayne]

Sounds like fun!

I have a big problem with wine, probably because I'm an uncultured twit :-), but they don't believe me when I tell them that I like sweet wines. I also have a huge aversion to the smell of sulfates, or what I think is the smell of sulfates. I have a bit of hyperosmia, and whatever it is that I'm identifying as sulfates is extremely off-putting. I was at a funeral a month ago and they had a champagne toast for the departed, and predictably it was a high sulfate champagne, but I could handle a sip.

I've found that Asti Spumanti is my best bet, a brand called Mondoro, or Trader Joe's Asti are very good for me. Very low sulfates. But that peper jelly wine sounds quite interesting!

[bladespark]

When I first got into wine it was sweet wines only, but I still loved this event, because most of the wineries there do at least one sweet or dessert wine. Saginaw does like six! These days my tastes have expanded a bit, and I like a lot of the dry ones too, but I still prefer the sweet.

[silveradept]

Drinking wine and looking sexy as fuck sounds like a delightful way to spend a day or three.

[batrachian]

Seconded.

[adafrog]

Wooo!