Wine Festival Season Gets Under Way

I tasted my way through most of the bottles opened Saturday at Salute! the North Carolina Wine Celebration.

I had lots of OK and not-go-sood quaffs, but plenty of good wines, too. You can’t go too far wrong with riesling in this state.

I got to talk with lots of wine lovers at the festival. If you missed it or I didn’t get a chance to talk with you, check out my column in May13’s Winston-Salem Journal or at http://www.journalnow.com.

By the way, people always ask me how I taste my way through so many wines in one day. The most important thing is to not swallow no matter how much you like what’s in your mouth.

Sip and spit, sip and spit.

It also helps to stay really well hydrated with frequent water breaks, and to stop every hour for a snack.

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