When : Tuesday, January 7th 5:30 sit down and do their blind white wine flight. The tasting dinner will commence at 6pm. I’ll get there at 5pm if anyone gets out early; we will order a bottle of Champagne off their menu.
Requirements : This dinner is about Merlot, and Making It Great Again. For too long Merlot has been cast aside… it was 20 years ago that Sideways put the death knell into overproduced, mediocre Merlot, yet the good Merlot was tarnished along with it. No longer! It’s time to turn the page on this discrimination. For this dinner, please bring two bottles of Merlot—they can be 100% Merlot, or majority blended Merlot. Only one can be from Bordeaux (but doesn’t have to be). One of the bottles must be over $100. The second bottle can be anything you want, as long as it’s something you enjoy and want to share. Please conceal all the bottles, as this will be a blind tasting. The price can be what you paid, the current market price, whatever reasonable metric you want to use.
Where : Corkbuzz 13 e 13th street (Union Square)
How : When you arrive, please ensure the bottles are concealed (in a bag or aluminum foil or something to cover them) and well chilled. The target amount of people for this dinner will be 11-12, once you go above 12 it can get too unruly, and there won’t be enough wine for each person—we’d like to keep this as a “mostly peaceful tasting.” Each person will pass their two bottles around and the group will taste them and attempt to determine what they are. Once everyone has tried them we will guess the price and region. The wines will be revealed each time after the round of guessing. How formal or casual your guesses are will totally be up to you; WSET, CMS, or just winging it are all fine…
Cost : The cost is expected to be around $150. This includes free corkage, and gratuity. They provide all the stems, excellent service and great food.
Why : Because it is time to Make Merlot Great Again!
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