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My main goal was to celebrate turning in the first half of my comprehensive exam that day, and then to relax. The absolute best part of the event was hanging out with various awesome yelpers and their guests, admiring Nelson Q.'s youthfulness, and meeting Donald Ziraldo. Considering all of these people were here to admire him and his wine, he gave me a few minutes of banter (he was recruited to play NCAA football from Canada, and got drafted to the CFL) and gave me his card to visit the winery when I am in the Buffalo/Niagara area next year.
I am not partial to sweet wines, but try to be open-minded. The cocktail (icewine/vodka) was waaaaay too strong for me, so poor Paolo D. got a bit drunk at my expense. Then, the vidal and riesling varietals - I actually liked both flavors. The crab cakes were lukewarm but very generous with crab (and lobster I believe), and the duck spring rolls so-so. The waitress told me they were vegetarian when I asked, but they had meat so I spit it out thinking it was pork and then found out they were duck so I ate one later. Oy. After that, standing around in plats and all, Eric R. and I were hungry so we bid ado to our yelp friends and went off to Grind Burger.
It was neat to visit the Trump for the first time and hear about Equifera's partnership with Kruger to bring icewine to Vegas.
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