“The satisfaction of a job well done is our reward and what drives us to improve day by day”
Marian Saint Mary of Las Heras
Winemaker at Dominio Fournier
In planning this month’s wines, I was going to bring both a red and a white, but Angela was headed to the Twin Cities and offered to pick up a white (since I already had a red). Before the tasting, I asked her to drop the bottle by my house so I could take the article photo. She was a bit bummed as she stated, “then you’ll see the wine and won’t have to guess.”
I told her to bring it in a bag and I wouldn’t look, and I didn’t. I took the photo leaving the wine secure in the bag and did not see it until after we tasted it and pulled it from the bag. The red wine this month, I read about in the Drinking and Knowing Things wine blog by Michael Amon, author of the book by the same name.
A point of information about TeamWines’s tasting — most of the time we are tasting the wines blind. Meaning the bottles are bagged, so we don’t see what the wines are prior to sampling and develop preconceived notions about what the wines may taste like. Of course, the person(s) bringing the wine will know but the others do not. We feel it’s a better way to judge the wine fairly but also test our wine identification abilities.
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