Gateway

My new favorite pass time is Wine Tasting. I never want to buy another bottle of wine blind (unless it is highly recommended by someone of course). I always imagined that wine tastings were like what you see in the movies. A group of people standing in a room full of barrels, swirling wine, saying extremely bizarre things about tastes and smells and then spitting it out onto the floor, which in my mind is very intimidating (and alcohol abuse).

So, with these preconceived notions, I occompanied my husband at wine tasting, our very first. We went to this small winery in Garden City, ID called Cinder. Cinder is in an unassuming warehouse building in the commercial district of town. I never imagine this nondescript building housed my first taste into the wonderful world of Idaho wines.

I was extremely nervous, but became even more so when I notice I was in a room full of wine barrels, very much like those rooms you see in the movies (my preconceived notions threatened to grab hold), and there was a small group already there swirling and describing the flavors they were tasting and smelling (I was way out of my league). It took all of my courage to not walk out the door. We were greeted by a very charming lady, who I feared would kick us how because of my discomfort. We explained that we were novices and this was our very first tasting. She was wonderfully patient and walked us through each wine and it's flavors. And as it turns out we were being guided by the wine maker Melanie Krause!

Walking through that door to the tasting room of Cinder, I walked through a gateway to the wonders of wine.   Through this blog I hope to bring you along for the journey.