Yesterday evening we attended the Cuvee Wine Gala in Niagara Falls. We put the kids to bed just before our baby-sitter arrived for the evening, then we were off for the evening. The Cuvee Gala is an annual event that showcases the wines in the Niagara region, specifically the award winning wines. We tried lots of different wines. I'm learning that I have started to prefer bold flavoured red wines over the lighter white varieties (which is what I used to prefer). I especially like the wines from South America. You may remember a post I wrote last year about visiting a winery (Tawse), along with David and his classmates. The Pinot Noir that we tried out of the barrel (and loved) actually won first place for Pinot's at the gala. That was pretty neat. I'm going to have to get David to write a post of some of his favourite wine pics one of these days. He's all about finiding great tasting wines on or around $15 a bottle. There are some amazing ones out there!
There are also many gourmet restaurants that come out to serve food for you to try. As expected, I'm not too into gourmet food, especially the fishy kinds. I had some amazing tasting rabbit, butternut squash risotto, tried some cauliflower cheesecake, cheese and melon jelly, duck sausage, chicken and lamb terrines, etc. We all loved the squash creme brulle, amazingly good! I loved the hand made gelatos, raspberry lemon balm, lavender and honey, sheep's milk and hickory, blueberry and something. I wasn't quite brave enough to try the fishy varieties.
Eating gelato, yum! 
David and Nick. We had a great evening trying food and drinks and just getting out. I was amazed how many people David knew there! He was definitely in his element! On a very positive note, he was chatting with the winemaker and people from a local winery and vineyard that he would love to work out. Their assistant winemaker will be going on maternity leave in the next few months and he's first in line for a position; so proud of him! This is so exciting, especially since David needs to figure out where he's going to do his co op placement, which is May-November. Therefore once he's finished this semester he doesn't actually go back to school until January 2011.
In the Galleria of the Fallsview Casino, where the event was held. I realized I didn't even get a photo of my dress, boo. Oh well, looks like we're going to have to get dressed up again sometime soon!
2 comments:
Sounds like you had a great time, next time would love a shot of the dress! You looked beautiful. David needs to share some of his pics for great wines under $15...we like the bold ones too!
First off, you look like a million dollars! Isn't it fun to get dressed up?
And secondly, cauliflower cheesecake?? That's just wrong. So terribly wrong.
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