Thursday, May 6, 2010
Liquorland "Industry Tasting"
The local liquor store here in Blenheim, Liquorland, had a 1hr tasting for industry members. The wines available for tasting were "leftovers", from a "professional" tasting panel earlier in the afternoon. Basically there are hundreds of wines, and you pour yourself. And, of course, there are spit buckets so you can walk away from the tasting. The event was held at the convention center, and the entrance fee was 1$.
I haven't done anything like this before.... it was pretty ridiculous, and the amount of wine was overwhelming. I had planned on tasting only Pinot Noir, and taking notes on my favorite. about 2 minutes in, I realized that note taking was going to be kept at a mininum... I would only write down my favorites. With the amount of wine to taste, I wondered if I would even enjoy my "favorites" in a different setting. That is, do I trust my palate right now? I spit for almost the entire event, but I had a solid buzz, and, of course, like the rookie taster I am, my palate got blown away. I threw my gameplan out the window about 1/2 hr into the event and moved on to syrah's. My fav wines of the evening were some of the Hawkes Bay Syrah.
Bottom line: Event was a ton of fun. Its pretty damn hard to taste a lot of wine. Less is more.
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