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Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:32 pm
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Hoke wrote:I don't believe, however, that gauging your number of sips per wine is going to indicate anything having to do with extract or quality. That's a numerical quantification of something that doesn't exactly lend itself to numerical quantification. .
At the afternoon competition Napa-Sonoma swept the floor over Bordeaux. I don't have a list of the wines. All I can say is I tasted all but the very last Bordeaux and I was dismayed with the poor judgment of the crowd.
JC (NC) wrote:DOMAINE DU TUNNEL SYRAH, ST. JOSEPH, FRANCE 2005
TWO HANDS "ANGEL'S SHARE" SHIRAZ, MCLAREN VALE, AUSTRALIA
Wine A was slightly tannic which I found offputting. I tried sips of both wines with a dry chocolate brownie and thought the Australian was a slightly better match.
Rahsaan wrote:JC (NC) wrote:DOMAINE DU TUNNEL SYRAH, ST. JOSEPH, FRANCE 2005
TWO HANDS "ANGEL'S SHARE" SHIRAZ, MCLAREN VALE, AUSTRALIA
Wine A was slightly tannic which I found offputting. I tried sips of both wines with a dry chocolate brownie and thought the Australian was a slightly better match.
Well yes, if you're trying to match syrah with chocolate brownies I could see how tannin would be a problem and how the Australian version might be better
Hoke wrote:although the "French wine versus the rest of the world" gives an edge to France just in the way it was set up, and I don't think that really mirrors the reality of the wine world right now..
JC (NC) wrote:James, sorry I didn't get acquainted with you but the pourers were probably too busy to chat anyway. I thought it was a well organized and well run event. Have you attended wine seminars taught by Hoke? I did attend one at Pinehurst Wine Festival taught by one of his colleagues.
And I heard good things about Duckhorn Merlot although I've never had one.
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