When we walked into our hotel in Chicago I noticed there was a wine tasting event in the atrium. When I asked the bellhop about it, he told me it was not open to the public. It was a gathering of wine makers (mainly from France, Italy and Spain) who were trying to convince the American distributors to purchase their wine, some going for as much as $500 a bottle! Although I joked with some of the distributors about their "fun job", they told me that in one day they "swished and spit" at least 50 wines and "had" to do it a second day! They did not seems as terribly excited about their job as me!
So in the atrium later that evening, enjoying a drink with my family and joking with our server about all the wine, she brought us a bottle of wine to sample, then another, then another, then a box to put it in(!) and then another and another! And if that was not enough she brought a wonderful cheese plate and later desserts! All compliments of our new foreign friends!...and no we could not drink all that wine but took it home to enjoy at another time!
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