New Years Eve was celebrated with our neighbors in a very classy style. The order of the evening was Black Ties for the men and a Tiara's for the ladies and the party group looked really posh. The evening started out by testing the Saint Veran 2006 , a nice little wine with and excellent dry taste whilst Mike supped a little glass of Glenmorangie. Toni provided beautiful goats cheese souffle starter which went down very well with the 2007 Chablis and after a short break we moved on to Jennifer's excellent chicken with aubergine and cheese which was well supported by the Spanish Baron De Ley Rioja and then followed a large choice of cheeses from Pauline and two delightful deserts from Heather. As New Years Eve approached we all started to pace up and down as we watched the total UK budget being spent on about 12 minutes of fireworks by the British Airways London Eye, it was a great sight to see. It's a great pity that the fireworks did not reach the Houses of Parliament and create a little Guy Fawkes night as this would have made our evening complete. At midnight there was lots of dancing to 'Auld Lang Syne' some festive kissing and some nice chilled Champagne and followed by some traditional Hogmaenay dancing with Mike performing his well rehearsed Irish dance routine.
A few hours later it was beginning to get a little late and so our guests departed having demolished a considerable amount of French and Spanish wine and these counties grape growers will now need to go in to overdrive to re build inventory stocks that are now sorely diminshed. Thanks everybody for making this a wonderful nightA happy new year to all our readers
