MARATHON RUNNER TASTES 25 WINES DURING RUN

A wine connoisseur sampled 25 wines during last weekend’s London Marathon, raising more than £14,000 (over $17,000) for charity in the process. Tom Gilbey, 52, performed a blind tasting of a different wine at every mile. Being a wine expert, he took up a challenge to name each wine’s vintage, grape and producer. He managed to name, “mostly correctly,” 21 wines, getting four wrong. He avoided getting tipsy by only drinking small sips or sometimes not swallowing the wine at all. Gibley said, “If they were good, I might swallow it and if they were bad, they went on the road.”
* Yeah, but the guy who hung onto the rest of the bottles was plastered.
* “This one has a bouquet of repulsive, tangy … oh, wait – that’s my sweat.”
* After each tasting, they gave him the cork from the next bottle to sniff for the next mile.
* Now that idea just might get me into a marathon. If it were beer instead of wine. Or donuts.
* I don’t get into marathons to drink wine. I whine to get out of marathons.