TVIP at Trezo Vino

Last month my friend Ruth turned 31. I experience life four months ahead of her, so I take it upon myself to hand down my wisdom from time to time :-) Ya know, like "man with one chopstick go hungry." The important stuff.

As her birthday present, I promised Ruth that I would take her to the July TVIP wine tasting event at Trezo Vino in Leawood's Park Place, the mecca of all things clean and suburban. Although I had been to Trezo Vino, I had never been to the TVIP wine tasting ~ and we do love wine. So tonight we headed to the event, which is the second Tuesday of each month.


As part of the wine tasting we each got six small glasses of wine -- three white and three red -- and six food pairings. Note: The term "food pairings" is obviously interpreted loosely because it totaled maaaaaybe 10 bites... But they were 10 delicious, fancy bites! Here are a few of the so-called "food pairings."

Squid and fennel spiedinis with pepperinade:
Besola with lemon and tomato:
Tomato roasted clams with red wine pork:
Flank steak with zucchini sformato:
While others around us (all within the 60-80 age range) may have been simply killing time, we took our wine tasting very seriously... As evidenced by my notes.

That's right. One wine gave me breath like a dragon. And another made my taste buds salsa dance. Who wants to hire me?

And after the wine tasting, we went across the street to Ingredient. I love Ingredient mostly because it has cheap fondue with four types of chocolate dipping sauces. But apparently the cheap fondue is only in the Lawrence store.

First I was shocked and appalled.

Then I was angry.

And finally I was sad.
It was like I experienced the stages of grief all at once. But then we ate artichoke spin dip pizza, so all was right in the world once again.

Lastly, we went for gelato at Paciugo.

And it made us so happy we danced in the rain. I did the flamenco.

Ruth was staying alive.


It was a good night.