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Newbie looking for Wine Party Info Sender: Ian Salut-Hi Bunny, le-on Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:12:49 -0500, tu disais-you said:- Sounds fun. May I suggest that instead of small sip cups, which are utterly hopeless for tasting purposes, that you have some reasonably decent tasting glbuttes. I use the INAO glbuttes for this, but I'm guessing you're in the USA, so you'll have to ask advice from other US residents as to what's available and not too expensive. Very briefly, to taste a wine you need to be able to judge the smell, and to do this yu need an appropriately shaped glbutt. As for the tasting grid, I do have one, but a) it's in Wordperfect format and b) it may not be sent here to a non binary newsgroup. I'll see if I can post it as HTML on a random page in one of my websites. How would you pick a winner? In fact are you after a winning wine? (That's relatively easy) or a winning participant, if the latter, what criteria would you judge by? Beware. Although cheese and wine have this reputation as perfect partners, be aware that they aren't as easy as all that. I quote from the late great Tommy Layton's book on cheese and wine. "Wine's affinity to cheese is remarkable. There is a wine to go with every cheese. But let us not exaggerate: every wine does not go with every cheese by a long chalk. Indeed there are a growing number of people who experience a marked dislike of their red wine after they have had a mouthful of a certain cheese." I find that "cooked" cheeses like gruyere, go better with reds than soft cheeses. Blue cheeses go better with sweet wines than others, Goat cheeses are better paired with sauvignon based wines, though they'll also go with some reds. VERY soft stinky cheeses don't (with apologies to my burgundian friends) go that well with anything. As I said, I'm concerned as to how you judge who wins, and why. -- All the Best Ian Hoare mailbox full to avoid spam. try me at website
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