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!!

Thursday, May 8, 2014

I love wine! It's "I" night!

Blind Wine Tasting hosted by Bob & Karen


Wine #1: Incredible Red – Peachy Canyon – 2011 Zinfandel $11.99
Tasting comments:
Bob “Smells fruity”
Karen “Very earthy smelling”
Becky “I was going to say the same thing!”
Karen “More flavor than I expected”
Bob “Is it full body or more intimate?”
Sean “Not bad”
Mike “It’s Ideal. You could almost say incredible.”

WINE #1 SCORING:
Bob 7.5, Karen 6.5, Mike 7.5, Becky 7, Jessica 7, Sean 7, Lauren 6.5, Stephen 6.5, Kara 5.5

Wine #2:  Il Bruciato 2011 Bolgheri – Tenuta Guado Al Tasso $31.99
Tasting comments:
Bob “The wine is really good with the chocolate”
Karen “This one smells good”
Lauren “I like this one. Light and mild.”
Stephen “A little inaccessible. I don’t have an inkling on how I’m going to rate this one.”
Bob “Do you want to impart some of your intelligence?”
Jess “I don’t like the wine by itself. It has a weird after taste.”
Bob “It’s not bad”
Stephen “Inferior to the last one”

Karen “I don’t get a bite. It’s really dry. Drier with the chocolate.”
Mike “A non Italy wine”
Jess “This wine is really inconsistent”
Karen “Chocolate makes it drier”

WINE #2 SCORING
Bob 6.5, Karen 7, Mike 5, Becky 5, Jessica 5, Sean 5, Lauren 6, Stephen 5.5, Kara 6

Wine #3:  Ruffino Il Ducale Sangiovese 60% Toscana 2010 $16.99
Tasting comments:
Sean “I don’t like the smell”
Stephen “It stinks”
Bob, Mike “Ewww”
Lauren “Smells like poop”
Bob “The taste is 10 times better than the smell”
Karen “No finish”
Becky “It’s sour”

WINE #3 SCORING

Bob 5, Karen 5, Mike 4.5, Becky 5, Jessica 4, Sean 3, Lauren 3, Stephen 5.5, Kara 2


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