Day 13

It was geerally agreed that we don't like Wednesday's as it's a theory day. All day stuck in a room watching a demo and then a lecture on something else. Although actually turned out to be good. We had a quarter of a cow today brought in and that was butchered in front of us, definitely not as exciting as the lamb, but still very interesting none the less. I'm going to ask Phillip, the resident butcher who teaches at the school, if I can come along with him next time that he does one so I can get a proper hands on experience.

The afternoon was filled with the first of 6 wine lectures, wine is a huge thing. And something that has always daunted me and something I'm not particularly interested in if the truth be told. For those that are, here are the books we've been recommended
Oz Clarke's Introducing Wine and Jancis Robinson's Wine Course. The latter part of the session was wine tasting. Great I here you cry, except I was driving so definitely only sipping for me. Nice wines though. To sum up what I learnt. New World wines are fruitier and have more body, but the old world wines are perhaps more subtle. The "ribena for adults" of wine is a Merlot, and a jolly nice Merlot we tasted too. It was a Lyeth Merlot, 2005 I think.

The students that are staying on campus obviously enjoyed the tasting, and it looked like they were going to get hammered tonight, so tomorrow should be quite funny.