As you probably noticed I was not online during the holidays. For Christmas I was at home in Pula to spend some time with my family, friends and high school colleagues I have not seen for more than ten years. I even managed to visit two Istrian winemakers and soon you will read about them here on Manjada. No need to mention how good and how much have I eaten these days… Ufff! I’m on a diet now.

After Christmas I went to a small village near Torino in Piemonte were a friend of mine has a mountain hut. There was some snow that we cleverly used to cool the white wine.

White wine in white winter

For New Year’s Eve were we had a nice party but we made one mistake. For the party we bought too much wine and soon realized it is not an ideal party drink. I was completely destroyed by drinking first some red Piemontese wine (Dolcetto, Barolo, Barbera) and then a lot of champagne. If one wants to get drunk quickly and painlessly vodka with some juice is a much better choice.

That’s it folks. Once again, all the best in 2010, read Manjada and please post more comments than in 2009.

Goran

Although gastronomy and wine are my big passions, my main occupation in life is science. I am physicist and I use lasers to study tiny molecules important to life. I recently got a sommelier degree and participate in panel tests of extra virgin olive oil.

Feel free to contact me on the following email: gogouistria@gmail.com