Third day : Study the difference among grapes <Red wine> (Oct.15)


Theme of this time.
  1. Review of the second day's tasting.
  2. How to select and buy good wines
  3. Presume the wine production area from the bottle
  4. About good wine glasses
  5. Temperature of wine
  6. Storing wines
  7. Tasting
We had a kind of lecture like at school again.
But this time it was not about geography, history or zymurgy, and I could enjoy it :-)

They are red wines tasted today.
When the red wines were brought in, very good aroma filled the room up. We did Blind Tast this time again. At first, I thought to differentiate characteristics of red wines was an easy task because I drink red wines very often. But it turned out not so. I couldn't understand the difference especially between the number 2 and the number 4. When the tasting was over, I was surprised by the names of these wines. I've drank these two many times.
We make some notes each time we tasted wines, and I could write characteristics of color and smell but it was hard to explain the taste. All wines were so tasty I wanted some cheese !

Tasted wines

  1. Brouilly, D. Bel Air '93
  2. Mercurey, D. Michel Juillot '88
  3. Barolo, Marchesi di Barolo '85
  4. Chianti Classico, Antinori '90
  5. Ch. Talbot '89
  6. Cote Rotie Cote Brune et Blonde, E. Guigal '91

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