Saturday, September 3, 2011

Wine festival!

This weekend was the Harvest Wine Festival in Las Cruces, New Mexico (about an hour away)! We decided to go today. Andrew is not a huge wine drinker--he would much rather have a beer--but he took me anyway and by the end of the day he was even choosing his own samples and critiquing them. I was proud of him. ;-)


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It was a little on the hot side today--around 100--but I must say, it's rather a nice change to go to an outdoor festival and be able to count on not freezing your butt off or getting rained on. Haha


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It wasn't unpleasantly busy, which was nice. We picked a good day to go.




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Getting my sampling on! Our $15 tickets included a wine glass to do all our drinking in, plus free tastes at all of the wine vendors' booths. I thought that was a pretty good deal.


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Yummy fresh quesadillas for lunch! Andrew refused to let me take a picture of him for this because he said there was nothing special about it, but I argued that since this is the first time we've gotten fresh Mexican food at a festival/fair, it was worth documenting. He doesn't get pictures sometimes. ;-)


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So many yummy wines to try! I'm no wine expert but I'd say New Mexico does a pretty good job at representing in the wine industry.


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Andrew tried a wine slushie! I'm a little bummed I forgot to try one myself before we left.


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The bottles that came home with me. I could've bought so much more! But these were two of my favorites. A semi-sweet white wine (Symphony) that had been named best of the festival and a sweet red that I particularly loved.

It was a fun day and I'm looking forward to going again next year! I also made sure to bring a bunch of brochures home with me so I can visit the wineries themselves, perhaps with some girlfriends!

2 comments:

  1. Sounds like a fun day, and I'm glad Andrew let you get a picture of him. :)

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