One of my local shops did a random blind 25 wine tasting a month ago. Shameful how many I didn’t get right and how fatigued my palate became. Today, they’re doing 25 Barolo and Barbaresco wines. Tasting fee $25. Great deal, just hope my palate can rise to the challenge. Oh, it’s blind again. May just focus on age and quality; that’s my only faint glimmer of hope.
I’m going to a blind tasting at a local shop Tuesday night. A great way to learn and usually very humbling. I wish it was for 25 Barolos and Barbarescos!
It’s not whether you win or lose, but how drunk you can get for 25 bucks!!!
IMO, that’s the most likely result of a 25-wine tasting, particularly blind.
I guess if they get you nice and drunk, you’ll also buy some of what got you there.
I figured, for myself, a long time ago that I was better off spending the money on a good bottle if a tasting exposed me to more than 8-10 wines max, even when I was spitting. Too much sensory/palate/attention fatigue for this taster. (And, I’m skeptical of what people can really get out of any event with more wines than 7-8.)
Glad to see/hear, at least, Atlanta is turned back on. It had 1-2 inches of snow this week, with ice…and my son in college there had two days of classes canceled…as well as many campus dining facilities.