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Norwegian Wine Expo 2005.
It was a nice day to visit the exhibition; the weather was overcast with a little rain in the air. In Norway there are a lot of rules when it comes to alcohol. You can’t serve it for free to the public, so with the ticket which costs 150.-NKr. you got 10 taste coupons to go along. Additional you could buy 10 more for NKr. 100.-. And if you followed the rules strictly there it was not allowed to swallow the wine either. But there was no way anybody could follow up on that, so it was only done by the ‘professionals’ tasters.

One of the first stands we stopped at was at our friends in Italy (Tenuta il Sogno ), where we spend the Easter. We had a nice talk to Frode, before we went on.

The wine.
There were taste samples on every stand, so we had the opportunity to taste a lot of wine. In most of the stands they had displayed the most common wines the company had for sale. So if you where hunting for something special this were not the place. For the average Norwegian wine drinker I do think there was a lot of a wine to sample. With a view of that the Norwegian red wine sale the bag in a box is almost 40% of the whole sale.

The stands.
There were friendly people at all the stands, which willingly told you about theirs product in and professional way, but still down to earth so that we all could understand. Most of the stands had the character of men in suits, but there was some exception. As for ex. Cork Wines & Spirits. They had two friendly persons at the stand, witch we easily came in talk to. And the stand is what we will remember, with the largest cork we have ever seen.

After over two hours of strolling around,
we thought that enough is enough.
We delivered the glasses and the coupons
that where not used back, got a little
money back and drove home. Altogether
we had a nice day.

( Tone & Stian on the picture. )