Our "Scoring System"

A note about what our scores mean:
5 - Wine your kids buy for you
6 - Would drink. Jug wine. Good for parties and your kids!
7 and above - Good for ANYTHING. Would recommend to friends. The higher the better!

And for PAIRINGS the scores mean:
0 = Wine tastes best alone
1 = Wine tastes best with food #1
2 = Wine tastes best with food #2

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This blog started because we needed a tenor in the church choir... Bob, Karen and I told Mike that if he joined the choir we would go out after practice every Thursday for drinks and appetizers. After a while we decided that it would be more fun (and less expensive!) to take turns hosting a "wine & cheese" night. Then Bob had the brilliant idea to "Taste the Vine" in alphabetical order. We started with Cabernet Sauvignon. The rules were simple: 1) The wine had to start with your designated letter, and 2) the bottle had to be covered up so we didn't know what we were drinking. I decided to write down our scores so that we would know which wines we liked the best....then was "forced" into writing a blog so that we could share our "finds" with our friends. So, enjoy!!

Monday, January 2, 2012

Dangerous "D"

Thursday, March 31, 2011
Hosted by Becky and Mike

We had a bit of a gap between wine tastings. We try to do it every week, but sometimes people are out of town. Rule #3: All of the original "tasters" have to be present.


  1. Director's Cut - Francis Ford Coppola - 2007 Alexander Valley
    Bob-7, Karen-7, Mike-7, Becky-7, Jess-7, Sean-6
    Bob: "This is a good one! Excellent!"
    Karen: "Light, not full bodied."
    Mike: "No comment"
    Jess: "Yummy"
    Sean: "It's okay"
    note from Becky- It's okay from Sean is high praise


  2. Decoy 2008 Napa Valley
    Bob-5, Karen-6, Mike-6, Becky-5.5, Jess-6, Sean-7
    Bob: "It's a PORK wine"
    Becky: "Mellow"
    Karen: "Not a lot of taste. Mild"
    Jess: "More mellow. After taste sneaks up on you"
    Sean: "I like it better after eating the pork"


  3. Dogajolo Toscajno - dry Red Wine of Tuscany 2009
    NOTE: We broke the rule!! This is NOT a CAB!!
    Bob-5, Karen-2, Mike-5, Becky-4, Jess-5, Sean-5
    Bob: "It's served out of a bag!" (we were still using the brown bags at this point...)
    Before Karen even tasted it she said "I am not going to like this". After she tasted it she said "I really don't like it", THEN she poured the rest into Mike's glass
    Becky: "I don't really like it. It makes me thirsty"
    Jessica: "It's subtle. I don't mind it"
    Sean: "It does smell funny...tastes kind of vinegary. It's okay"

Next up: E's are Excellent!

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