First Impressions

My first class was yesterday, and it was a blast. I will write about the wines I tasted soon, but I just had to express my surprise about the teacher, Kevin Zraly. I pictured a wine teacher as someone calm, professorial, maybe tending toward British, waxing poetic about wine. Not Kevin. He was quite a shock to the system: loud, excitable, hyperkinetic -- he seemed to hop around the room like a Muppet. But he is funny, entertaining and extremely passionate about his subject.
I sat next to Olga on my right and Gabriella on my left, both veterans of the restaurant industry. They were so helpful to me during my sensory overloaded first session!