surprisingly I got invited to a wine dinner by my wine agent, Fare and Fine Wine from London. I could bring a friend as well after Jim called from London. It was my first wine dinner ever. I mean I got invited few times by various people, most of the time cost from 2k to 10k HKD. I am simply too skin to attend such "high roller" events. Jim reassured me that dinner was free and a special invites organized for their best clients. My instant shock was they must had made mistake. How would I be one fo their best clients? The dinner would have billions of theirs if I am on the list. Or, they must be having real bad business.

I was so excited. so, now, the question is, who should I invite to go with me? He must be my best friend, treats me well, love wine and dine, and most importantly a great company for my evening.

arrived at the HK club with my friend Derek. He is always well dressed with great etiquette. We entered the private room. Few white men standing there and this guy came to me and reached out his hand, I supposed he is welcoming me and my friend. This tall white guy reached out his hand and greeted dereck first then me, and started chatting away with Dereck. I was thinking, "man, how dare him". His head must had been conditioned so bad by society. after 6 minutes of conversation, Dereck said, "maybe you should talk to this lady more about wine as I supposed she is your bigger client than me". James was his name, showed embarrassment but I gave him a very warm smile as that's what I supposed to do to make him feel less stupid being sexist.

Atomsphere was stiff but Dinner was great and I had I guess at least 8 glasses of wine and Krug. In fact, all I could see was just food and wine. with some easy math, I think I had over 15k wine wasted into my stomach. most I love was d'yquem. tasted like pina colada, but funny things is, people rather have a non pina colada and tracing taste of it elsewhere.