Open Mike / Palate callibration exercise this coming weekend
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 1:44 pm
Just a quick reminder that we're setting up an informal palate callibration exercise next weekend. This involves people getting hold of the same wine - in this case Penfolds Bin28 Kalimna Shiraz 2003 from Australia. We'll taste the wine independantly and post our comments / thoughts / tasting notes.
The aim is to (in a very relaxed and non-geeky way) investigate how different our preceptions of the same wine are. It's a good chance to think about how we describe wines, an area which can be quite intimidating in some circles.
Anyone and everyone is invited and hopefully the wine is widely available, so that at least a handful of us can find a bottle and compare our thoughts.
I'll aim to start proceedings some time on thursday or friday, by posting some background info on the wine. Feel free to post tasting notes, vibes, opinions onto that thread and we'll see how it goes. There's also potential to take the debate into the regular sunday chat session.
I've still yet to get my bottle , but will be detouring via the big supermarkets this week, as they seem to be the big stockists.
We're using this as a bit of a trial run and if it goes well, we'll investigate which wines are both interesting and available to a large cross-section of our community.
regards
Ian
The aim is to (in a very relaxed and non-geeky way) investigate how different our preceptions of the same wine are. It's a good chance to think about how we describe wines, an area which can be quite intimidating in some circles.
Anyone and everyone is invited and hopefully the wine is widely available, so that at least a handful of us can find a bottle and compare our thoughts.
I'll aim to start proceedings some time on thursday or friday, by posting some background info on the wine. Feel free to post tasting notes, vibes, opinions onto that thread and we'll see how it goes. There's also potential to take the debate into the regular sunday chat session.
I've still yet to get my bottle , but will be detouring via the big supermarkets this week, as they seem to be the big stockists.
We're using this as a bit of a trial run and if it goes well, we'll investigate which wines are both interesting and available to a large cross-section of our community.
regards
Ian