An excellent evening presented by Adam from the
Beaconsfield Laithwaites
Well, I'm always hesitant about things like wine
quizzes, as they can easily deteriorate into "which was the best
St Emilion Vintage" type questions. Which are no fun.
This wans't one of those - in fact very cleverly
done. It was split into 2 parts - one was a printed out sheet with
about 15 wine questions which we could complete as the evening went
on on, the second bit was a lot more fun.
The normal 8 wines were presented, blind -
teatowel round the bottle. For each wine, 3 "Truth or Bluff"
envelopes were handed out. Each of the 3 envelopes had a plausible
description of the wine "I am a Viognier from Souther France
etc..etc... " type of thing. And we had to guess the true
wine/description.
Our overall accuracy rate was maybe 75%,
reasonable, but not great, as there were a couple of jokers in
there.**...
The wines were:
Cremant de Bourgogne: Prince de Dulphey Brut
Reserve - £14.99
Leitz Eins Zwei Dry: Riesling Rheingau** - £14.99
Stellenrust Heritage Collection (South Africa)
Chenin Blanc 2015. £10.49
Dog Point (New Zealand) Sauvignon Blanc 2015
-£19.99
Jean Leon (Spain, Penendes) 3055 Merlot 2011**
£12.79
Massivo Nero D'Avola 2015 - £7.19
Textbook Rack'n'Roll (USA) Cabernet Sauvignon 2013
- £18.40
Peter Lehmann The Pastors Son Shiraz 2014 - £12.79
** These were real wild cards. The Riesling tasted
like no other German Riesling I've ever had.. and the Spaninsh Merlot
– plenty of head scratching
And for the quiz – a prize of a decent bottle of
fizz was eventually won by someone with an excellent 85% or so score
Adam also kindly brought along a decent red and
white to go into the raffle.
A very good evening all round.
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