Thank you in advance for participating in Week 2 of the Wine Berserker series of Virtual Tastings for Charity.
The Charity: This is an amazing charity which provides high quality, durable wheelchairs to disabled people in the third world, so they have an opportunity to see their friends and loved ones, find employment, and meet other basic human needs. Every $96 donated provides a person with a wheelchair like this:
You can read more about the great things they do at their website: https://www.freewheelchairmission.org/ They have provided over a million wheelchairs to date.
The Donation: I will donate $5 per tasting note, and $10 per tasting note which includes a photo of the taster and the bottle (not just one or the other). The commitment applies to bottles opened and tasted between Wednesday November 30 and Tuesday December 6. I would love it very much if anyone else wanted to volunteer to match, or make any other donation in any form they want.
The Tasting: The theme is Open Your Worst Bottle. We all have those wines lying around that we know or suspect are going to be terrible. Maybe your uncle brought it to Thanksgiving dinner, maybe your neighbor gave it to you last Christmas, maybe you bought it as a joke because of the name or the label, maybe it’s something from a bygone era of your tastes that you found left over in the back of your cellar, maybe it’s the last of a case of whites where the others have all been oxidized. Well, it’s time to clear out the space and open that bottle with your friends. If you want to open your second, third etc. worst bottles, you may make multiple entries.
(No judgment about what you consider your worst, as long as you’re using good faith – if you hate Burgundy and a lone bottle of Premiere Cru is in your cellar, or you hate Napa cab and you have a $100 bottle sitting around, and you want to dispense with it, that’s perfectly fine.)
The Tasting Notes: Remember you need to post some sort of descriptive tasting note. We want the gory details. If there is a funny story about how you ended up with or discovered this bottle, please share that, too. And if you have an open mind and you’re surprised that it’s actually decent or even good, tell us about that as well. I hope there might be a few pleasant surprises documented in the thread.
Thank you in advance for your support, your friendship, and your sense of humor.
