Wine Tasting

　　A wine importer told me that their salesperson would visit several restaurants and bars in my city which serve wine to customers for the purpose of sales and the expansion of their sales channel. The salesperson, who had come by my house before, would like to drop in at my house at that time for tasting wines. As the importer is based in Osaka, which is also an epicenter of the outbreak of the Wuhan virus, I had a little anxiety over infection from him. After due consideration I said ok on the condition of his serious carefulness. My friends got together to taste high quality wines, some of which weren't out of our reach. My wife prepared meals which went well with white and red wines. After tasting, we ordered wines which everyone liked.
　　To my surprise, he left opened wines to us. Those bottles seemed to pass a few days after opening. Even if he brought them back to his company, they would pass the freshness date. Anyway, I was grateful. Naturally we enjoyed them and the dishes. Take a look at the following picture. I've never seen such a scene as more than 20 kinds of wines are open at the same time.

ワイン試飲会

大阪からワインの輸入業者が松山に行商に来た。レストランなどの業者相手の売り込みだが、そのついでに我が家に寄りたいと先月連絡があった。大阪は武漢ウイルスの大流行地で、そこからやってくるということで少し心配はしたのだが、感染に最大限注意するということで我が家に来てもらった。仲間の都合を聞き、今日となった。カミさんが簡単な料理を用意し、準備万端。それぞれ気に入ったワインを注文した。

終わりに、なんと驚くことに、残った試飲用のワインを全て置いていってくれた。開封して数日経ったワインばかりだろうから持って帰っても使えないという判断だろう。ありがたや。言うまでもなく大宴会となった。写真を見て欲しい。同時にこれだけのワインが開いている光景は見たことが無い。