This weekend we made our annual trip with Karen and Mike to Niagara-on-the-Lake to purchase our tickets for the Shaw Festival in the fall. Yes, we could buy our tickets online, but about five years ago we decided to make a day trip to NOTL. We purchase our tickets, have lunch at the Irish Harp, and go to a couple wineries before heading back to Rochester. The last couple of years, we've had breakfast at one of our houses before leaving, and dinner in Rochester before we call it a day.
The week before our trip, I received an email from the Megalomaniac Winery inviting us to a wine tasting seminar. It sounded like a lot of fun, so we signed up. There were just three couples there, so it was a very intimate group, and we learned a lot about food pairings, how to get the most of the wine tasting experience, and how the different glasses can affect your tasting experience. The only drawback was how cold it was in the winery. This particular winery is just now constructing a building for wine tasting and events. Since it opened, the wine tastings have been held in the barrel room, dug inside a hillside. It's chilly even in the summer, and downright cold in the winter. But it seemed like a good place for the ZIZO shots of the week.
Usually I take my ZIZO shots with my Tamron 18-270mm lens, but this time I zoomed in with my feet and my iPhone.
Check out the other ZIZO photos on Helena's blog.
