It’s hard to top the Spring Picnic we had last Friday- so this week, we decided to throw some quality alcohol into the mix by attending the DWS Wine Trade Show at the Sydney Masonic Centre. Despite it being my first time attending the show, Brasserie Bread s participated in the show for the past 2 years and acts as the carb buffer (and believe you me, it s a fine line being tread) between wine tasting and getting blinded from all that free booze.

We set up the stall and the usual mountain of loaves and rolls spilling all over the table in a rustic heap. I attended both days of the show, along with Jeremy on Day 1 and James on Day 2. Trade shows are big (and frankly, quite exhausting) events to prepare for here at Brasserie; especially with all the sawing of loaves, the delegation of which knife to which loaf, the insane amount of story-telling, the occasional policing of samples, dealing with a million cuts from slicing, and of course, the non-stop chatter. By the end of Day 2, I was reduced to a babbling mess just handing out loaves to anyone who would take them, being too spent to coax anyone into sampling a piece instead. I suppose my frequenting of the other stalls (all fantastic wineries) didn t help with sobriety levels either. But I was very animated while it mattered!

I would have loved to show you more pictures but my shaky hands don t do the function any justice (that setting was magnificent, kudos to Marisa from DWS for organising)

Off to Thomas Dux Hornsby tomorrow for more sampling madness. Wish me luck now that I have an iphone and the amazeballs TWEETDECK, I ll be uploading pictures from the event as I go. 10am 1pm, drop by and say hi you know the drill!

Mei armed with an IPHONE!