Thursday, 12 July 2012

A pleasant surprise at a horizontal tasting

I have been going to different horizontal tasting and have generally been impressed by only a couple of things: my general inability to identify wines and how Chateau Lynch-Bages always comes in the bottom three (where applicable). So it was quite a pleasant surprise when I actually got the answers right and won a bottle the other day at the KCCWS Bordeaux 2001 dinner (picture above). There 3 St Emilion wines amongst the 8 wines tasted and we were asked to identify these. What they had not told us was that 3 of the other 5 were from St Julien, though this is obvious if one looks down the list. I just took some notes for each wine and thought I can only identify one. Then when they hurried us up for the answers, i looked down the descriptions and chose the three with the most forward and fruity descriptions and submitted them. I was thrilled to be the only one to get them all correct!

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