How do you know a 'good' wine?
Discussion
madbadger said:
Fairly serious suggestion: How about a PH wine club?
Someone recommends a wine of the week (or day). We all go to Threshers pick a time then have a live review / talk b
ks about it the next day. Might be a bit less pretentious than a formal club.
Ahm in!!Someone recommends a wine of the week (or day). We all go to Threshers pick a time then have a live review / talk b
ks about it the next day. Might be a bit less pretentious than a formal club.Go on start a thread, or else I will & claim credit for it
madbadger said:
Fairly serious suggestion: How about a PH wine club?
Someone recommends a wine of the week (or day). We all go to Threshers pick a time then have a live review / talk bks about it the next day. Might be a bit less pretentious than a formal club.
That could be a lot of fun. I'd join in. We'd have to set up rules and a budget with some means of selecting which bottle we're going to try and then a poll for how much we liked it. Store the results in a Wiki.Someone recommends a wine of the week (or day). We all go to Threshers pick a time then have a live review / talk b
ks about it the next day. Might be a bit less pretentious than a formal club.The problem is creating some system for passing the choice around. No good just having one person selecting the wine. We need something like the Photography Forum's competitions where the winner of the previous month selects? Or perhaps a Wiki where you put yourself on a "waiting list" to be the one who chooses?
Any thoughts?
madbadger said:
I was thinking kind of like the photo forum competition.
Is anyone a member of something like one of the formal clubs mentioned above so we can just pinch the first wine as a starter?
Go on MB, claim credit/start a thread.Is anyone a member of something like one of the formal clubs mentioned above so we can just pinch the first wine as a starter?
I suggest we keep budget low.
Easily avaliable via supermarkets etc.
Thread here: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
I don't mind a change of the format but for simplicitys sake it will be on this friday (in the absence of the FNL&DT). I've put a price suggestion down but in my experiance it is easier not to try to come up with all the details by committee as nothing will happen!
I don't mind a change of the format but for simplicitys sake it will be on this friday (in the absence of the FNL&DT). I've put a price suggestion down but in my experiance it is easier not to try to come up with all the details by committee as nothing will happen!
madbadger said:
Thread here: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
I don't mind a change of the format but for simplicitys sake it will be on this friday (in the absence of the FNL&DT). I've put a price suggestion down but in my experiance it is easier not to try to come up with all the details by committee as nothing will happen!
Excuse the crap spelling.I don't mind a change of the format but for simplicitys sake it will be on this friday (in the absence of the FNL&DT). I've put a price suggestion down but in my experiance it is easier not to try to come up with all the details by committee as nothing will happen!
Don said:
There's a lot snobbery and bullst talked about wine.
absolutelyt talked about wine. went to a family picnic yesterday (mrs envy's side of the family) and some bloke turned up when I opened a bottle of chilled fizzy red
apparently he 'knows about wine' and after taking a few sips pretty much tore the wine to shreads whilst I noticed he finished the glass he's pinched of the mrs' uncle and a further glass he poured for himself
as I opened a different red he slowly slid over with an empty glass and hung around waiting to be offered - it was too much of a gift horse to tell him I'd ruin his palate with such 'base wine'
OP - try different wines until you find a few YOU like, don't worry about what everyone else thinks
madbadger said:
Fairly serious suggestion: How about a PH wine club?
Someone recommends a wine of the week (or day). We all go to Threshers pick a time then have a live review / talk bks about it the next day. Might be a bit less pretentious than a formal club.
Brilliant idea. Count me in. Someone recommends a wine of the week (or day). We all go to Threshers pick a time then have a live review / talk b
ks about it the next day. Might be a bit less pretentious than a formal club.Mobile Chicane said:
madbadger said:
Fairly serious suggestion: How about a PH wine club?
Someone recommends a wine of the week (or day). We all go to Threshers pick a time then have a live review / talk bks about it the next day. Might be a bit less pretentious than a formal club.
Brilliant idea. Count me in. Someone recommends a wine of the week (or day). We all go to Threshers pick a time then have a live review / talk b
ks about it the next day. Might be a bit less pretentious than a formal club.Besides my very brief semi-serious comment early on, my recommendation is to do a lot of research, and you will discover the styles and individual wines you like best.
My wife has just completed a couple of WSET courses, which introduced her to the enormous variety of wine, and how to taste wine and identify the falvours correctly. I have benefited from her expanded experience (and the odd bottle brought back from classes!)
Interestingly we've drunk a lot more white recently, which I usually avoid like the plague, but I'm "getting into" as a result of my wife's course.
I also think that making a note is vital (or at least trying to remember - which is hard when alcohol is involved) of the wine you drink, so that you know what you like in future.
I had the most amazing, smoky Nuits St George (Burgundy, Pinot Noir) in a restaurant, which is probably one of the most interesting, complex, drinkable reds I've tasted, but in my excitement I forgot to note where is has come from adn which year, so I am slowly drinking my way round the area to find it again - which is an expensive exercise!
My wife has just completed a couple of WSET courses, which introduced her to the enormous variety of wine, and how to taste wine and identify the falvours correctly. I have benefited from her expanded experience (and the odd bottle brought back from classes!)
Interestingly we've drunk a lot more white recently, which I usually avoid like the plague, but I'm "getting into" as a result of my wife's course.
I also think that making a note is vital (or at least trying to remember - which is hard when alcohol is involved) of the wine you drink, so that you know what you like in future.
I had the most amazing, smoky Nuits St George (Burgundy, Pinot Noir) in a restaurant, which is probably one of the most interesting, complex, drinkable reds I've tasted, but in my excitement I forgot to note where is has come from adn which year, so I am slowly drinking my way round the area to find it again - which is an expensive exercise!
prand said:
Besides my very brief semi-serious comment early on, my recommendation is to do a lot of research, and you will discover the styles and individual wines you like best.
My wife has just completed a couple of WSET courses, which introduced her to the enormous variety of wine, and how to taste wine and identify the falvours correctly. I have benefited from her expanded experience (and the odd bottle brought back from classes!)
Interestingly we've drunk a lot more white recently, which I usually avoid like the plague, but I'm "getting into" as a result of my wife's course.
I also think that making a note is vital (or at least trying to remember - which is hard when alcohol is involved) of the wine you drink, so that you know what you like in future.
I had the most amazing, smoky Nuits St George (Burgundy, Pinot Noir) in a restaurant, which is probably one of the most interesting, complex, drinkable reds I've tasted, but in my excitement I forgot to note where is has come from adn which year, so I am slowly drinking my way round the area to find it again - which is an expensive exercise!
I always carry a compact digital camera with me so that I can just snap the label rather than write anything down or rely on my (increasingly addled) memory.My wife has just completed a couple of WSET courses, which introduced her to the enormous variety of wine, and how to taste wine and identify the falvours correctly. I have benefited from her expanded experience (and the odd bottle brought back from classes!)
Interestingly we've drunk a lot more white recently, which I usually avoid like the plague, but I'm "getting into" as a result of my wife's course.
I also think that making a note is vital (or at least trying to remember - which is hard when alcohol is involved) of the wine you drink, so that you know what you like in future.
I had the most amazing, smoky Nuits St George (Burgundy, Pinot Noir) in a restaurant, which is probably one of the most interesting, complex, drinkable reds I've tasted, but in my excitement I forgot to note where is has come from adn which year, so I am slowly drinking my way round the area to find it again - which is an expensive exercise!
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