Wine Tasting The theme for this month was a comparison of White Bordeaux wines with their New World equivalents. The Sauvignon Blanc grape’s main home in France is in Bordeaux where it is often blended with Semillon to make dry white wine. Many New World countries have adopted these grapes and the blending of them. […]
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Wine Tasting – July
We now believe that there are nearly enough people to set up another group so we welcome anybody interested in joining this. The existing group met in May to taste wines made from the Sauvignon Blanc grape – two from the Loire valley in France and two from New Zealand. The overall winner was Domaine […]
Wine Tasting, April 2019
As we reach warmer weather, so we have moved over from red wine to white, and this month we tasted wines made from the Riesling grape. Michael brought us four to try as part of our theme “Old World, New World”. The Old World was represented by Neubern Riesling 2017 from Austria – Lidl, £3.99, […]
Wine tasting – April
This month we tasted four wines based on the Cabernet Sauvignon grape. The first and last of the wines came from the Medoc area of Bordeaux in Old World France, the spiritual home of this grape. The New World is represented by the second wine from Australia and the third from Chile. All the wines […]
Wine Tasting Group – February 2019
Pinot Noir is a red wine grape variety. The name is derived from the French word for pine, alluding to the grape variety having tightly clustered, pine cone-shaped bunches of fruit. Pinot Noir grapes are grown around the world, mostly in the cooler regions, but the grape is chiefly associated with the Burgundy region of France. Other regions that […]
Wine Tasting Group – January 2019
Californian Zinfandel vs Italian Primitivo. This was the first meeting for the 2019 theme of “New World, Old World”, which compares wine styles between Europe and the rest of the world. In most cases the same grape has been grown in very different places and we are interested in the various effects that the different […]
Wine Tasting – December
Our tasting this month concluded our year of the wines of Western Europe with a look at the Northern Rhone. The dominant grape of the Northern Rhone area is the Syrah – the same variety that turns up in Australia as Shiraz. Our wines started off piste in Romania with Nonius: Feteasca Neagra / Shiraz […]
Wine Tasting – November
This month was our penultimate on the theme for the year of wine styles of Western Europe and featured red wines from the southern end of the Rhone river. We conclude next month with wines from the northern end of the Rhone – a rather different style. Naomi brought us four very fruity wines […]
Wine tasting – October
This month Alsace was on the menu, and Sylvia treated us to four wines made from different grape varieties – Riesling, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris and Gewürztraminer, all from Majestic Wines. Alsace, in the shadow of the Vosges mountains, has low rainfall and therefore concentrated flavours in its wines, and this selection did not disappoint. […]
Wine tasting – August
For the July meeting we tasted four wines made from the Riesling grape in New Zealand, Germany, France (Alsace) and Austria. Most of the bottles claimed that their area was ideal for the cultivation of Riesling, and it is a tribute to the versatility of this noble grape that most of the wine for […]