We do wine tastings all the time at Little Hills. People can taste any of our wines at the restaurant any time during the day or evening that we are open. Most of the wines we carry are also available for tasting at our gift shop down the street.
For this posting though I want to tell a story about my mom. My parents used to live outside of San Fransisco when I was a young adult. I can remember a trip to visit them that we took a bus tour of several wineries in Northern California over a weekend. We got to visit 3-4 wineries a day a
nd tour each of their facilities. Each tour would finish in a tasting room where they had several samples ready in anticipation of the crowd from the tour bus. Every place served in small plastic wine glasses a serving that was slightly smaller than a half glass. Each place we went to my mom would always be the last one to finish her glass as everyone else was piling onto the bus. After two days of this routine being repeated, while we were visiting the last winery of the day and after sampling several glasses per winery, she decided she was not going to allow herself to be the last one done again. So she threw back her sampling of Merlot faster than a frat boy in a chugging contest and slammed her glass down on the tabl
e. Unfortunately, this winery chose to serve their samples in real glass. You guessed it, it shattered and sprayed glass all over the nice quiet tasting room of a 150 year old building and the whole room stopped to see where this noise came from.
nd tour each of their facilities. Each tour would finish in a tasting room where they had several samples ready in anticipation of the crowd from the tour bus. Every place served in small plastic wine glasses a serving that was slightly smaller than a half glass. Each place we went to my mom would always be the last one to finish her glass as everyone else was piling onto the bus. After two days of this routine being repeated, while we were visiting the last winery of the day and after sampling several glasses per winery, she decided she was not going to allow herself to be the last one done again. So she threw back her sampling of Merlot faster than a frat boy in a chugging contest and slammed her glass down on the tabl
e. Unfortunately, this winery chose to serve their samples in real glass. You guessed it, it shattered and sprayed glass all over the nice quiet tasting room of a 150 year old building and the whole room stopped to see where this noise came from.
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