Wine, whiskey, and liquor....what a day

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Today was a great day around London, although no pictures. We started out with a trip to the Borough Market. We bought some vegetables, sausage, bread, tea, coffee, olives, and cheese of course. We spent nearly 3 hours there, shopping. We had to go by all of the different vendors before buying certain things. We even went and had sushi for lunch at the market.

Then we headed over to Vinopolis, a wine tasting place. This place is very large and sells hundreds of different wines. We bought this package that included a "how to taste" seminar, self guided tour, 6 wine tastings of your choice (you get to choose from over 50 different wines, broken down by country), 2 beer tastings (their own brew), a Bonbay Sapphire Gin cocktail, 2 whiskey tastings, and 2 absinthe tastings.

We started out with the seminar, which included 1 wine tasting, then headed over to the first wine table, where we tried 2 different wines. We then headed to the beer table and had our two tastings there, I was not impressed. Next we headed in to get our Bombay Sapphire cocktails. Greg had a Cosmo and I had an appletini that had cinnamon syrup in it. That was the best. We each drank half of each drinks so we could try both. I then decided that I wanted to go ahead and do the absinthe and whiskey and finish up with the wine.

In case you didn't know Absinthe is illegal in the US. We had both of our tastings and I would be happy if I did not have them again, although I would do it again if it was free. Mom, you would have loved it. It tastes like pure licorice, uck! Greg was not impressed either. Next was the whiskey stalls. I opted to get a whiskey cocktail (ginger ale and Johnnie Walker Black Label whiskey) instead of the tastings. Greg paid the extra money and tried all 3 that they had to offer, he said the Johnnie Walker was the smoothest of the 3.

We then finished our wine tastings with some wine before heading out. We went to Oxford Circus and bought a few items from H & M. We went to some other stores but not nearly as impressed. Top Shop looks like you have stepped right back into American 1980's fashion, not good. After a few more stores we were getting tired and headed back home.

Once home we decided to order a pizza. The delivery person told us that he was on his way but that we had to meet him down stairs. Greg waited and waited and thought he saw the guy pass the entrance but the guy never stopped. A little while later the driver called and said that he could not stop unless Greg was on the street. He came back with our order and Greg met him on the street. Very odd that they do this, I can't believe that the drivers won't come to the entrance of your building. Oh well, we ate, watched a movie and went to bed.

Again, sorry there were no pictures this day.