On a warm April evening, we hosted a wine tasting for a dozen couples....
The wine tasting area in our back yard...we were blessed to have the party on the first PERFECT spring evening! Note our friend Linda Noel on the left...she prepared a fabulous meal to accompany the wines.
Syd welcomed the guests and shared the details for the tasting. Each couple brought four bottles of one of their favorite wines which were part of a "blind tasting."
Our friend (and Mallory's favorite teacher at IBS), Chrissy Nichols, helped organize the party
Julie with Sydia Hamlin and her unique gift, a "taste-vin," (wine tasting cup)
Anja and Jan Wilbert 
Samantha Veyne and Joey Hamlin
Sydia Hamlin and Kris Sustronk
Claude Veyne
Julie loved feeling French with her taste-vin!
Susie Bates, Sarah Besso, Nick Bates and Sarah's dear friend, Anouk Blain-Maillot, who was visiting from Paris
Phil Sustronk and Chris Asselberghs
Annina Niklander, Tessa Asselberghs and Anja WilbertAnd the winners were..........................................
In the white wine category, Margriet Keuning and Christian Swinkels with their Domaine Pey Blance, Le Blanc, Aix-en-Provence 2006 (purchased from the vineyard in their back yard!) .
Julie and Syd with the red wine winners, our dear friends Ann and Daniel Jourlait. Ann and Daniel brought Cru de Beaujolais Morgan, Les Charmes 2006.