Well, my team had a bit of an off-night! 3 servers from the Grill constituted my team but we were rather stumped on the last 2 round of red wine questions. We came 4th out of 6 teams and last years team of wine reps came first (by the narrowest of margins) for the 3rd year running! Second place went to a team of local winestore managers, third were some customers from local area and my team came in rather a distant 4th!
There was three rounds of questions on the 3 whites served and four rounds on the four reds tasted. The wines turned out to be.....>
`05 Burge Family Olive Hill Semillon, Barossa.
`05 Rosemount Roxburgh Chardonnay, Hunter V.
`06 Chablis 1er Cru, Cote de Leclet, Defaix.
`05 EQ Pinot Noir Matetic Vineyards, Chile.
`06 Seghesio Cortina Zinfandel, Sonoma.
`03 Travaglini Gattinara.
`97 Radici Taurasi Mastroberardino.
I surmised to my team initially that all 3 whites could be Chardonnay but we all disagreed. One does not have to agree as a team, each member scores individual points. The second white I thought was a Verdelho!
The reds were tougher. Wine #2 I thought was a Malbec from Argentina but we did guess Italy for #3/4. We were way out on our selections however, going from Chianti to Tuscany and Barolo!
WOTN for many was the Gattinara (a WS top 100) and the semillon was terrific. Rosemount was a bust and fell apart in the glass.