Saturday, October 09, 2004

Buying Wine

So being here seems to be just chock full of new things. So tonight we're having "Safari Night" where a bunch of the returning grad students are preparing dinner for the freshers, who get to poke our noses into 3 different houses for appetizers, dinner and dessert to see how everyone else lives. However, we're all expected to bring our own bottle of wine. So like the good little fresher I'm trying to be, I headed off down to Sainsburys, and headed into the wine section. Holy Cow! I had no idea there were so many different varieties of wine to choose from, it took me almost 20 minutes to get out with a bottle of Shiraz Grenache, not that I have any real clue what that is, but it came at the recommendation of one of the other people browsing the shelves. I guess we'll see how it turns out, but I can see the next wine purchasing event will require a bit of background research just to figure out what I should get.

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