If you couldn't tell from the title...THAT was boring! haha. Luckily it was only 2 hrs long. Then at 11:15 we learned "Focus on bubble dynamics in Champagne wines" by Gerard Liger- Belair.
He was actually very interesting. He wrote a book and gave everyone one. I had him sign mine. I read the first chapter already and I think I may read the whole thing. It sounds great. I never realized that bubbles in champagne come from the glass being a little dirty. You can't have bubbles if the glass doesn't have dirt in it! weird huh? Then we had lunch. Then we started a little earlier today at 1:30 and we learned about the "Anthropology of Taste" from Patrick Pasquet.
Once again...a little boring. He was only an hr and a half though so not too bad. He spoke more on how we are the same as the homoerectus and stuff. Then at 3:30 to 5:30 Alain Razungles spoke on "Methodology for wines' sensorial analysis".
This wasn't TOO bad. He spoke on the way the do wine tastings and stuff. Then we did a wine tasting. He wasn't that enjoyable to watch which made me a bit bored. PLUS we've been having 3 speakers a day and today we had 4!!! Then we went back to the hotel at 6. We had to dress up pretty tonite because we had a HUGE dinner at the Charles Heidsieck Champagne house. It was SOOOOO cool.
It was down in the Champagne Cave. We tried 5 different types of champagne (it was a champagne and food pairing dinner). However, I wound up drinking about 8 glasses of champagne! They were too good! In anycase, there were Champagne producers from all over the champagne region there. It was SO cool to be amongst them. We, the students, had to speak at the dinner to say what we felt. It was fun. And we had good company! We got home after 11 and I went to bed shortly after.
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