Natasha D'Souza

I attended a FUN event at The Code Factory.  FUN is Fellowship Unity Networking for Tech Women.  It was great to network with fellow women engineers and techies.  BTW there was a token guy in the group : )  This event was called “Don’t Dread the Wine List”, you guessed right it was wine tasting. The presentation was by an Engineer who was studying to be a Sommelier, how cool is that.

We tried 4 different types of wines

• Segura Viudas Cava Brut Reserva NV Spain – sparkling white
• Cave Spring Dry Reisling 2007, Ontario – medium white
• Santa Barbara Salice Salentino 2005, Italy – medium red
• RH Phillips Night Harvest Shiraz 2005, California – full red

There were quite a few yummie appetizers to go with the wines.  I learnt a lot about wine and how to determine the taste.  We had great suggestions on what to serve with these wines.  So no more white wine with fish and red wine with meat.  It turns out that a sparkling white wine goes very well with KFC, who would have known.

I met a lot of very interesting women and the wine tasting was a blast.  I look forward to the other events.