Salon des Vins des Vignerons Indépendants
The other day I got a texto from the delightful Ksam telling me she had tickets to the Salon des Vins des Vignerons Indépendants, and asked if I was interested in going along. Was I interested? HA!
We met up and headed over to Espace Champerret and trundled ourselves inside. We waited in line and when she handed them our tickets, we were each given a tasting glass with the logo for the Vignerons Indépendants.
On Facebook, we'd both become Fans and had downloaded a game to play, which would give us an opportunity to win one of 50 bottles of wine. Obviously, answering the questions became our first task of the day. We decided to get that accomplished before we got into the serious tasting.
Most of the salons I've been to have had more than just wine, and I hadn't been to one like this before, so here's a gander of what we were looking at:
One of the great things about these salons, is you can try all sorts of stuff you could a) never afford or b) not want to buy a whole bottle of.
Here's the most unusual flavor we tried...
I would like to thank Ksam for suffering through I can't recall how many different tastings of various Cognacs...
We tasted wine, pineau, eau de vie, crémant, champagne, calvados, but my favorite of the day was a jurançon moelleux.
Let's just say it was a good thing that neither of us had to drive home...
As we were taking a pause to eat a little some to counteract the affects of all the stuff we were drinking, the delightful Ksam and I heard suddenly heard our names on the loud speaker.
Look what we won!
Look Ma! Two Hands!!
We walked up to the stand, and they recognized us right away. Gee. I wonder how. They asked us where we were from, and when we responded "les États-Unis" they added another bottle each! Yay Us!
If you ever get a chance to go to one of these salons, I highly recommend it!
(And you get to keep the glasses.)
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Justin 
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I had such a great time when I went a few months back and I still have my glasses ... I also sprung for the nice little around-the-neck wine glass holders so I looked extra classy with my glass hanging from my neck. :-)
Hey, what do you know, I don't look drunk *at all* (assuming you ignore the flushed skin & glassy eyes LOL).
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Yay! You won! That sounds like tons of fun.