Wine Lover!

There was a time when I didn’t like wine. Back in my early twenties when I was first married and started hosting dinner parties with my other ‘couples’ friends I wanted to start drinking wine along with the rest of them. I was told to start with a sweet German wine like Liebraumilch or a Reisling. I did, and I got rather used to the taste. Over the years I tried many other white wines, went to fancy dinner parties, hosted more fancy dinner parties . . . it was a whole lotta fun.

Over time the dinner parties stopped… I eventually divorced in my early 30’s, stayed single for a couple of years then found my ‘dream guy’, moved to the States  - and the rest as they say is history ;-)

What I’m getting at really is that I’ve drank wine for many years now ;-) but not really expanded my knowledge or my taste buds for that matter, until . . . . well, until just a couple of weeks ago (not so much the knowledge part yet but the tasting part).

Over the past year or so Cheryl (my neighbor) and I have had our own little wine tasting nights but just a couple of weeks ago we both went to a local Winery for their monthly taste testing night. It was only for an hour but was such a fun night. We tasted 6 wines and had our own individual plates with a small selection of meats and cheese. Since that night I’ve wanted to try more different wines. One thing I just discovered this week is that I actually can drink a red wine. I’ve never liked them, or so I thought.

Anyway, I could go on and on here but I’ll leave more to tell in other posts about wine (because yes, I’ll be talking more about them now). What I wanted to post about today was my new ‘Wine Station’ . . . inspired by the lovely Becca who just this week showed pictures of her Fall decor and also of her lovely Wine Tasting Bar. Here’s a picture of it (I’m sure Becca won’t mind me sharing it with you) ;-)

It was love at first sight when I saw this, honestly I think I swooned! You can CLICK HERE and go see more lovely photos at Becca’s Blog  - Adventures In Decorating.

Of course as soon as I saw it I said “I want one too”!  I told Becca I loved her idea and wanted to make my own wine station, and she said ‘go for it’!  So I did. . . .

As always, using what I had (mostly) here is the start of my own little tasting station.

The one thing I didn’t have was the grapes and cheese. So I popped up to Hobby Lobby, grabbed a bunch and a fake wedge of cheese and came home to put it all together.

It’s not exactly how I want it yet, for starters there needs to be more wine, if you notice the rack is totally empty! I’d also like to make a sign to hang on the back of the tiles. Because I can’t stencil like Becca did I thought about getting a long frame and printing the words on it. That might work. I’ll also keep my eye out for some ‘wine’ signs’. The station is pretty small, so I won’t be able to add too much. What would really be nice is a wine fridge right next to this :) Then I could add some other accessories on top of it, like a free standing wine opener.

Hmmm, guess I should start working on my Christmas wish list :)

 

How bout you, what’s your poison?!!