Sunday, 8 March 2015

Denbies Wine Estate and Surrey Hills Brewery, Dorking

7.21pm now and I am on bed. Showered. And feeling sleepy. Living the life of not working and still get to enjoy the weekend like you working folks.

Ok fine, that is half true since I am doing freelance projects now. Haha

Today I was unexpectedly enjoyed myself so much. The weather was beautiful and @milkystainz brought me to a vineyard. I've always wanted to tour one when I went to Europe and Australia but never got a chance till today. 😁

Ignore my made-me-look-like-Baymax sweater and see how happy I was. I did put on some weight but not THAT much.

Sunny weather. I even get to replenish my tan from Aman Dusun with #Sisterhoodies.

In my hand was a lovely cup of honeycomb hot chocolate that I have been dying to have since a few weeks ago. Finally ☕☕☕

My handsome man and the March vines.

It is at its dormant stage now but still very pretty to look at.

We came for the indoor tour and wine tasting. I like how we get to roam around the vineyard freely. They even allow dogs so maybe next time we can bring Dug.

Today I remembered why I loved UK so much when I was studying here but now I have a more grown up reason to and my taste has changed so much.

The view was beautiful. I don't mind sitting there all day. It was sunny and slightly chilly. The prefect combo.

After booking our tour, we had 2 hours to walk around and take photos. We covered the whole place but we will come back again in August/September time during the harvesting of the grapes.

Apparently Denbies is the biggest wine estate in England.

Not sure if I posed for this or was it candid but my legs were shockingly short in this photo so you only get to see half of it.

And then there is a photo of him drinking his curiousity cola..no, seriously.

See. I told you.

Anyway, we went to a brewery in the wine estate. It is called the Surrey Hills Brewery. It is not associated to Denbies at all. They were just renting a space on the land. The dude who sold is the beers told us. He was awesome. He recommended a really good place for food at Dorking town center to us. Tell you more about this later if I remember and don't fall asleep before tomorrow.

One of these is a winter beer. Not sure which one now. Hoho!

Saturday, 7 March 2015

Wine Tasting Tour at Denbies Wine Estate, Dorking


Obviously I fell asleep last night!

Today's weather is not as good as yesterday. Thank god we went to Denbies then.

This photo to show that sometimes I can take good photos too.

So, just want to continue about our very exciting wine tour. These are fermentation tanks. Now I know why white wine is white, red is red and rose is pink.

The tour was really informative. Made me understand a lot more about wine. The wine expert said that there are no right or wrong in wine. Just go for the taste you like best. Which I so agree. I don't really care abt red meat red wine concept most of the time. But I like all 3 types depending on my mood.

The wine expert showing us the different types of vine growing at the vineyard for different wines and country influences on the methods and growths.

I never realized that there are so much science involved in growing anything. I guess I knew but never really thought about it.

I also understand why wine is expensive now.

This is the first time I've been to a cellar. It was pretty cool but also quite creepy if I was alone. Reminded me of those horror reality tv that I've watched.

@milkystainz and I opt for the still wine tasting instead of the sparkling wine/champagne because I get drunk easily with anything fizzy. It was 3pm during the tasting. Just way too early to be merry.

I liked the red wine the most. It has this woody oak taste to it. I like.

I also found out why aluminium were used to wrap the top of a champagne bottle in the past. Simple and cunning reason but now, it is just purely for packaging sake.

Decorative barrels.

Enjoying our tasting.

It was overall a really good experience for us. I completely did not expect J to bring me to such places because it was more of my thing than his but he really enjoyed it as well.

What a happy day! Another weekend to remember.

We are moving into our new home in 11 days. We are very very excited and also feeling very broke all at the same time! Furnishing and renovation ain't gonna be cheap yo! 😂😂😂