The curtain may have come down on European club rugby temporarily, but this was a match that captured the excitement that northern hemisphere club rugby can deliver.
If English rugby can be known as a stodgy, boot-based affair in which defences dominate, this was the perfect rebuttal.
In fact, it was the stuff of a defence coach's nightmares.
Despite the sub-zero temperature at The Rec both Bath and Wasps displayed the slickest of handling - if not the most resolute of defences - as Paolo Odogwu and Tom Cruse scored two apiece for the visitors.
Winger Odogwu caught the headlines and deservedly so with his low-slung, high-impact running.
Here's my piece for The Times, with reaction from fly-half Rhys Priestland who didn't pull any punches in his assessment of his team's shortcomings.
