An afternoon at the wine festival

Yesterday, our friends Marianne and Frank Traczyk graciously invited us to join them for the last afternoon of the “Park City Food & Wine Classic” an epicurean extravaganza, as the event is billed to be. Featuring the finest in food, wine, and entertainment during this three-day event, the event consists essentially of wine tasting and pairings, gourmet dinners, educational seminars and culinary competitions. This is a rare opportunity to meet owners, winemakers and senior representatives from wineries located primarily in California but also from Australia, Argentina or even Italy. The final event took place at the nearby Canyons ski resort, we went there by bus, and from 3 to 5 pm we “tasted” lots of wines and nibbled into some very fine food. After two hours of "oral testing," Evelyne and I had exceeded our attention span for the entire week and did our very best to ride the bus home. Marianne and Frank, much more dedicated than us, showed up at our place one hour later when the festivities had come to a screeching halt. We shared a delicious dinner and lots of laughter, had a long and lively conversation trying - once more - to reconstruct the entire world, and went to bed by 10 pm, totally worn out and ready to slip into a deep slumber…