May 22, 2013

The clouds have finally succumbed to rain. And it indeed is raining, and it sure was a bittersweet walk home from the Canada Line and WSET Diploma class with a hat and a thickish flannel. Unfortunately since a couple of days ago, weather forecasts have been hinting to an identical sort of weather for my fake birthday shindig this Saturday (since my real birthday was during exam time), which is okay, because we’ll be inside, we’ll be drinking Spatlese followed by less exciting things, and maybe we’ll do other fun things like I’m not sure yet. We’ll probably just end up playing Resistance.

Today’s WSET Diploma class was about everything from the alcoholic fermentation to the bottling – mostly things like must adjustments, barrel fermentation, stabilization, fining, filtering – all that fun stuff.… read more