Wine-tasting sounds romantic but Jancis Robinson has seen it move mistaken. She shares her tips to avoid disaster
What could be more romantic than a wine trip? A friend once went to immense lengths to propose to his inamorata in an ideally bucolic setting. Napa Valley was the chosen location. No wine region offers a more attractive combination of glorious scenery,sophisticated restaurants and wineries that set their cap artfully at the visiting tourist.
The denouement of their trip was dinner at the world-famous French Laundry, where Thomas Keller’s staff serve a multi-course tasting menu accompanied by handpicked wines. My friend had arranged that a waiter would propose to them halfway through that they might like to take a turn in the garden. He proposed and his girlfriend said yes – the only problem was that the final thing she wanted to do was plough through endless more food and returning to the table was a bore. “I told the maître d’ I’d got engaged, and ” she said,“but he was so uninterested. Maybe people obtain proposed to there all the time.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com