Back in January, before most of you were even reading this thing, I wondered about hockey and wine and whether or not they go together. Do hockey fans like wine? Do wine fans like hockey? These were important questions to me as I was enjoying glasses of wine with my hockey fights and wondered if I was the only lone person in the universe enjoying such a combination. Since then, I’ve realized that yes, people enjoy both. Actually, a lot of people enjoy both.

With that in mind, this past weekend I held a wine tasting for some of the Twitter folk I have met through Bruins tweetups. I can, indeed, confirm that hockey fans are into wine (at least on Saturday they were). The sense that I got from the crowd was that they wanted to know more but often felt silly asking questions and finding out or didn’t really know who to ask. I’m no expert, but I know a few things and I hope that I wasn’t  snobby and they learned a little bit in the process of tasting through six wines (okay, we drank more than six bottles but there were only six in the formal tasting portion of the night).

It’s less than two months until October (the month that marks the start of that sport I love), and was the perfect time to get everyone together, talk about the trades that have gone down this summer, and get pumped up for the season ahead of us. As far as I can tell, it worked. I’m now more pumped up about the season than I was before. Quite honestly, though, that’s because all these people that I hadn’t seen in months kinda rule and with the start of the season, I’ll be seeing them more. Yeah, and them giving a crap about wine absolutely doesn’t hurt the situation. We might even do more of these tastings during the season.

And with that, I’ll leave you with this Bruins video montage set to the music from Inception.