I went out for a small wine tasting session at the Hamilton Street Grill near our office in Yaletown. It was my first time being to this restaurant I think (I’ve been to so many restaurants on Mainland and Hamilton that I’ve lost track by now). Business Objects was nice enough to have this session open to 50 of us in the Product Group free of cost as part of the Fun Works program. There was a group of maybe close to 10 co-ops that managed to get a spot in this session (including myself).

We went through glasses of Riesling, Pinot Gris, and (I think) a Cabernet. That’d be two whites and one red respectively. We tried it with all different kinds of food/taste in our mouths to find our favourite combinations. There was alkalized water and lemon on the acidic side, sugar water, salt, apple, well done beef, and rare beef. It was quite interesting to see that with some food, some wine could taste so great and then with some other food, wine could be so disgusting. I think it was with sugar water (sweet) and Pinot Gris that I almost choked on because the taste was so intolerable.

I think out of all combinations, it was lemon or salt + Riesling that I liked the most. Followed up by well done beef with Cabernet or Pinot Gris depending on what I am looking for.

I must admit though… 3 glasses without eating lunch during the day is not such a good idea. I had quite the adventure trying to go back to the office to collect my belongings and walk to the skytrain. All while doing up some serious text messaging on my phone.

I’ll be out for LA tomorrow afternoon and I won’t be back until Saturday. My Crackberry service won’t be turned on, so I’ll have a longer than usual response to SMS messages and e-mails. We’ll see about getting some hotel-fi when I get there. Aideos!