It was the second day. The most fun night of all.
After the long day, concluding the training for 7 habits of effective people, we were ferried to Dempsey's Vintage India where we booked an area for mixing and wine tasting.
We were greeted by Bob, the mixologist who was working in Beijing currently. He flew over for the day just for this.
There were a few sets of utensils for us to try mixing cocktails after he demonstrated it. All the mixing was done with Grand Marnier, which is blended with cognac and fresh oranges. We tried Magarita, Cosmopolitan, Mojito and B25. I loved the Mojito best, which was served with oranges, mint leaves, grand mariner, and soda.
The demonstration, crushing the mint leaves and orange cubes.
It was a lot of fun really.
The mixing competition and demonstration continued till 7-ish, till all of us were hungry.
Notice those little red bubbles from Grand Marnier.
Apart from Grand Marnier, we were there specially to taste the Casa Lapostolle wines.
Yves, the brand ambassador introducing his brand.
Grand Marnier and the red bubble. It is filled with cocktails with an 'ice-cube' which lights up on contact with liquid. I like! I took 2 red bubbles home.
It was a night of carnage. I drank at least 7 cups of wines and tasted many other cocktails. Surprisingly, I was 100% sober. My head was barely throbbing, like it usually does after a glass - I wonder why.
It was fun, when you try all the different wines at one time and learn about the characteristics of different grape varieties. Most people could taste the grape varieties just after a sip! After drinking more wine, it becomes obvious which are good wines and which are the not-so-good ones.
The after-dinner drink - Grand Marnier mixed with Hennessy VSOP and then heated up. It was good!
The restaurant with our brands.
The dinner which was really not very good at all. It was a bad choice for it becomes difficult to taste wine when your mouth is numb with spicy curry! We were supposed to be at a Spanish restaurant in Dempsey, but they refused to allow our wines and the mixing event. We ended up with lots of left-over food.
The restaurant was almost empty on a weekday night. Only the bread and naan tasted great.
My least favorite grape variety. It leaves your mouth numb.
I have very fun colleagues, especially after few drinks.
This was really good!
I enjoyed myself a lot that night, and learnt lots about wine. =)
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