WINE TASTING TUESDAY
26TH. MARCH.
The group met at John and
Sheila’s for a very pleasant afternoon of tastings with cheese and
biscuits.
The first wine tasted was
probably one of the most complex that we have tried, in as much that it scored
the highest, and lowest markings, we have had, of any wine we’ve tried since we
formed this group. Such is the diversity of peoples tastes. This wine was a
2011Cabernet Sauvignon Pay d OC from Languedoc France, priced at £6.97 from
Asda. This wine has a distinctive blackcurrent flavour, but such was the
difference in people’s view of this wine, that there was no real agreement
amongst us all, over any of its characteristics. It received a score of 9/10
down to 4/10 with an average of 6.5.
The second wine tasted was a
2012 Shiraz from the Western Cape in South Africa again purchased from Asda at a
reduced price of £5. This wine has a fruity nose with a spicy finish, and was
generally preferred to the first wine with much more uniformity of opinion. It
had a pale appearance but was bright and clean smelling, with a medium strength
taste. The smell was quite slight, yet distinctive, with some tannin but very
little acidity. It was felt that the taste did not last. Shiraz is best drunk
as a fairly young wine, and is produced widely in Australia and California as
well as South Africa. This wine attracted an average score of 7/10.
The next meeting of the
group will be at Ray and Junes on April
30th.
John Benfield.
