![]() ![]() They can run the gamut from bone dry to thick, rich & sweet. They are incredibly versatile in their food pair-ability. These are wines that when at their best possess an array of tantalizing aromas. Before attending the first Riesling tasting I’m not sure that I understood the Riesling fascination. Often disrespected, there are many highly regarded wine people who are cult Riesling lovers. It is a white & is often sweet wine (or at least there is residual sugar in it). I find Riesling to be interesting for several reasons. Here the exhibitors had a chance to submit a wine from their library to be shown to the attendees. And of course the favorite table, the library selection, called “1990’s – a decade of great Rieslings”. A nice representation of producers who presently import their wines with several seeking importers. The 2010 Riesling tasting was very much like previous Riesling tastings I’ve attended. Which provided me with just enough time to sneak away to one of my favorite tastings of the year. I was attending a Spanish wine tasting in the city a little over a week ago that happened to be taking place the same day as the big Riesling tasting. Posted in Wine STUFF, wine tasting | 3 Comments » Time to stock back up on that Two Buck Chuck. But don’t venture down the wine aisle hoping to stumble on something tasty using price alone as your guideline, particularly with reds. Also, if there is a costly wine you legitimately love, by all means, go ahead and splurge. The moral here seems clear: If you want to drink free wine, sign up for more European science festivals. The wine with the highest accuracy rate was a pinot grigio, and that with the lowest was a claret, for which 61% of tasters thought the £3.49 bottle cost more than its £15.99 counterpart. Essentially, you’d have an equal chance of guessing an unborn baby’s gender or calling a flipped coin mid-air as you would of determining which wine is of higher value by taste alone. Read on to see how they fared.Īs reported in The Guardian, the volunteers managed to identify the more expensive wine only 53% of the time, and even less than that (47%) when the wines in question were red. They were told that they were drinking one cheap wine, classified as being under £5 per bottle, and one expensive wine that cost £10 or more, and asked to identify which was which. In a blind taste test at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, 578 volunteers tasted wines ranging from 3.49 British pounds (or about $5.78 in American dollars) per bottle to £29.99 (just shy of $50). The case for boxed wine just got stronger. “Expensive Wine Indistinguishable from the Cheap Stuff” I expect to attend both and hope to write about each shortly thereafter… Also want to give a heads up about two of my favorite tastings of the year first the annual TOTT (Wine Enthusiast’s Toast of the Town) & next week’s Riesling (Wines of Germany) tasting. I had a story forwarded by a reader I thought I’d share. ![]()
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