Spitting is Encouraged - Spit Bucket Patrol
The Vancouver Wine Festival, housed in the Convention Centre, promised to be a splendid affair. Three days and nights of tastings and seminars about wine, grapes, growers. I would see bottles of Dom Perignon and reds from the Rhone Valley. And I would get to taste them! I signed up as a volunteer, thinking to get right into the heat of the action. When I was assigned to Spit Bucket Patrol, I was intrigued and still eager to volunteer and be able to attend this event. Little did I know what gruesome sights awaited me! Picture vats and vats of regurgitated wine. Now inhale. Yes, the fumes are earthshaking.
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