How are barrel tastings done I think that there are at least two kind of barrel tasting's. One, as described by the people below is more or less a testing of a work in process of unblended wines. either many barrels of the same blend, but a bit unique. In some wineries, these may be individually tested, some rejected( second wine) and the balance usually mixed together to make the final wine. In other cases, the wine in various barrels is from different locations(find Shea in OR, and Shea Stadium), or different varsities, and the "final blend" is a mix of the various varsities(J. Phelps insignia). A second kind of barrel sample tasting, which is what I have done most is: bottles are pulled and labeled, then shipped to Wash DC(where I live), and opened and sampled here. The wine has a very short life. it is almost always of the final blend. The most famous of these tasting's in our area is the Addie Bbuttin Tasting, which will come up in a couple of weeks. These are the wines that Parker tastes to generate his CA Cab report. He does not go to CA to taste most of the wines in that report. Most of the wines come from that tasting, and he has a private tasting the day before or the day after. I have never seen him at that event, although I have seen rogavani there. There are a couple of other charity tastings that Macarther sponsors that include Parker. The wines in those events usually end up in Parkers reports. These guys do not travel 100,000 miles a year to taste wines. I have purchased a number of burgundies from barrel samples(tasted in DC) On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:45:17 GMT, Leo Bueno 
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