Tasting Results

Dec 10 2010

Holiday 2010 Wine Club Results

Holiday 2010: Tasting Results

Here are the results from last month's wine club. Generally the December event includes a lot more wine, white elephant gift swap games and good time with friends, and this year was no exception - including a surprise holiday wine - Hot Mulled Red Wine with an Ecuadorian recipe.  read more »

Oct 23 2010

2010 Spanish Red Wine Tasting Results

Spanish Reds: All They're Cracked up to be?

This particular wine tasting club was held at our friend Carrie's place. Great wine, great company, and some fun times exploring old newspapers (from the 1940's) used to insulate pipes in the basement....  read more »

Nov 24 2008

Australian Cabernet Sauvignon

Washington State Bridgman Cab opens the night

A good time was had by all as we welcomed the Stebbins to our humble little excuse to drink too much wine! Thanks to Nicole and Brian for opening up their home and their bottle of Washington State's Bridgman Cab to open the night with a delicious bang!

Here is the ranking from most loved to least...  read more »

Nov 01 2008

Chilean Carmenere

Carmenère wine was thought to be extinct for years after phloxerra destroyed the grapes throughout Europe. It was recently found in Chile where their geographic isolation allowed it to flourish...

Here are the results from this past week's wine club featuring Chilean. It was a very excellent night for wine tasting... not a bad one in the bunch!  read more »

Aug 26 2008

Riesling Tasting - August 2008

Riesling Tasting

Here are the results from last night's wine club featuring Rieslings. There
was one really good one and a few okay ones before we hit the fizzy ones... weird!

Wines are listed in order of ranking:  read more »

May 20 2008

Sexy Red Wines

How sexy is your wine?

This month we tasted "Sexy" Red Wines. The definition of a sexy wine was left up to personal interpretation. Eye-wink

It was an unpredictable tasting experience and nothing really took the cake as a wine to love or hate. So, while not a great night, it was a good night of wines. Plus, sitting outside on a nice spring evening is always nice!

Ranked in order of what you liked most (best to worst)!  read more »

Apr 21 2008

Southern Italian Reds

This month we tried to drink Ciro from Southern Italy but seeing as how only one could be found in all of Winston Salem - SHOCKER - we ended up with Southern Italian wines. These were dry reds that most of us enjoyed a lot!

Alex and Michelle went home with the bull this week for bringing the winning wine.

In order of drinking, not ranking:  read more »

Feb 27 2008

Grenache and Grenache Blends

Grenache Tasting - February 2008

This month we tasted Grenache and Grenache blends. It was a tasty night with lots of good wines at great prices! Love a good value wine night!

Ranked in order of what you liked most (best to worst)!  read more »

Dec 15 2007

Your Favorite Reds

As has come the wine club tradition here in Winston-Salem, every December we celebrate with everyone bringing their favorite red wines (could be a past club favorite or could be a personal fave). As always we brown bag them all, shuffle the mix and then letter the choices. For this special occasion, we also bring gifts for a white elephant gift exchange and we gather with the expectation of excellent wines and thus, more drinking than the average Monday night wine club.  read more »

Nov 27 2007

Sangiovese

This month we drank Sangiovese (same grape as Chianti per Stacie).

In order of drinking, not ranking:  read more »