mystery tasting

This was a humbling experience. While Andy did an outstanding job of identifying four out of six reds, with Kristin correctly finding a respectable three, the rest of us might have done just as well with a toss of the dice. Granted, this was a difficult task — we were given eight choices in red

The challenge this month was to correctly identify a set of six grape types in a single-blind format. That is, we knew which types of wines were being poured, but not which glass they were in.   The results were mixed, with almost all of us getting the Napa Chardonnay right, but only one taster

February’s tasting was a repeat format of last January, where we were presented with 3 pairs of wines, with each pair being the same bottling but separated by 10 vintage years. Our goal was to detect which was the older bottle.   This turned out to be a relatively easy task, with all of the

For the January tasting, we blind tasted three pairs of red wines, each pair separated by 10 years of age.  Our job was to detect which one of the pair is the younger of the two.    Out of sheer chance, the “B” bottle was always the older of the two (these were brown bagged,

The March 2012 tasting was a chance to open some fine wines from David’s cellar, and share them among some great friends.  Some were new acquisitions, while others have been lying down in the cellar for over a decade.  While the sparkling wine and the port were known to the tasting group, the middle three

The tasting titled “One of these things is not like the others” manifested itself on a few levels:   One was white, three were red One was sparkling, three were still One was from France, three were from New York state Three were made from grapes you’ve heard of and want to drink, one was