We were recently “tagged” by Enobytes in an internet meme circling the web that requires participants to list six things that most people don’t know about them, and then in turn, “tag” six more people (in our case, wine bloggers) to continue the meme. For those of you who don’t know what a meme is, think of it as chain mail without the added guilt. Invitations to participate on a theme are send to X number of people. If those people want to be a part of the meme, they will continue the “chain mail”; if not, fortunately, life moves on without condemning the the invitee to blogger hell.

But what don’t you know about us? What have we not divulged to you over the past 4 years writing on this site?

1. How did Ryan and Gabriella meet?

We met in the third week of March in 2001. At the time, I was working in a sushi bar, when a customer and friend, wheelchair bound for years, asked for my Reiki services at his home. Yes, your residency Iberian wine expert is also a Reiki Master, an alternative healing practice which is actually quite popular here in Spain. Under the pretense that my services would be paid with a bbq at his house after the session, I happily agreed to the terms and arrived a week later with an empty stomach. What I didn’t know was that the food, my payment mind you, was not being cooked by the person receiving the services, but by someone else. Halfway through the session, Ryan walked through the door with a briefcase filled …