Wine School

On Thursday night, I took Todd out on a date. We’ve been trying to be more frugal since getting home from Costa Rica since we have a wedding – and a life together – to save for. Because of that we’ve been eating at home a lot more so a night out on the town together felt special instead of routine.

Todd at Wine School

After a picnic at Wilcox Park courtesy of The Green Well take-out (they never disappoint!) and a quick ice cream cone at Jersey Junction, we headed to Mangiamo for their weekly Wine School.  Before this week I had no idea that Mangiamo held a wine tasting every week.  I also had no idea that they had an amazing wine cellar in the basement.  The wine cellar is set up with a few high tables, couches and armchairs and has a pretty homey feel.  The school portion of the night was minimal.  They describe the wine we were tasting, where it was from and then let us just sip it at our leisure.  We tried five wines in all, the theme of the night being “Uncommon Varietals” so it was fun to taste wine that we’d never had before.  Neither of us had even heard of any of them.

Wine and Tasting Sheets

As an added bonus they brought pizza in at the beginning of the evening so for only $25 per couple we could have eaten dinner and enjoyed five tasting wines plus one complimentary glass of wine to start things off.  It’s always fun for us to do wine tastings because neither of us have very refined palettes.  “It tastes like a red” and “All whites smell like dust” are very representative statements when it comes to our wine discussions.  We had a great time though and I’m sure we’ll be back again.

Tasting Sheets