Wow...What a Wine-Derful Weekend!!! From a Fire Wife's Side Part 1

Well, our little family has survived our first Firefighter's Seminar held in our dear little Smalliver.
After many months of preparation from all our firefighters and their families, another successful seminar is complete. It was such a great opportunity to meet other volunteer departments and industry manufacturing & merchandise reps from all over BC. We are thoroughly exhausted but full of so many great experiences to last us until 2010 when Smalliver hosts the next Spring Seminar.
From a Rookie Firefighter's Wife's point of view;
I had an amazing time on the Spouses Wine Tour. Our ladies time was wild and wonderful and full of wine! Thanks to Sonya, a fellow rookie fire wife and great friend, for her skilled bus driving that transported our little group to our delicious picnic lunch in the vineyard gazebo and our various tastings at local wineries.



Our first winery stop was Golden Mile Cellars where we were given a special tour of the wine making facilities on site. Korrine gave us an amazing fact filled tour and was such a patient guide fielding all our novice wine tasting questions and queries.



These huge French oak barrels and steel cooling systems were full of 'new' wine from Golden Mile Winery.



Our next stop was Inniskillin where a few wines were sampled but we seemed to find more fun in the parking lot. We acquired some attempted stowaways when some fellow wine tourists decided our bus of fire wives was more interesting than the huge stretch SUV limo tour they happened to me on. Our ladies got a thrill from the lively bantering and teasing of these good natured fellars.



Our last stop was Silver Sage Winery and the most liveliest of them all. If ever in the area...you must visit this small but amazing little winery. Not only are the wines excellent and unforgettable, but the tasting hosts are as entertaining and unique as their famous Flame dessert wine.



And as you can tell from the boxes and bags, bottles were not in short supply after this last tasting and 'show'. A definite stop next time out of town guests come a visiting.
Then it was back to the fire hall after our eventful afternoon where we started off as strangers but ended up as new members of fire family bonded through 'wine group therapy'.