Comments on: A Blind Tasting With Family and Friends

By: Susan J. Spaulding

Susan J. Spaulding — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:10:41 +0000

Blind tastings are SUCH fun!! I do enjoy them. Thanks for your detailed post!!!

By: Admin, Ken Payton

Admin, Ken Payton — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:58:14 +0000

Thank you for the comment, Matt. Keep up the good work on your site!

By: wine of the month club

wine of the month club — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:17:45 +0000

Blind tastings tend to be one part fun, one part mystery, 2 parts eye-opening.

Blind tasting seem to take what most consider the simple act of tasting wine to a whole other level. I know that my concentration and senses are heightened when participating in these types of events, whether it is casual or more intense.

By: Admin, Ken Payton

Admin, Ken Payton — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:42:16 +0000

Thanks, Charlie. The idea was to introduce friends to the experience of tasting blind. Initially, it produces a giddy, constructive confusion! But inasmuch as we immediately planned a second effort for early March, it may be then, when comfortable with the process, folks will concentrate on which wines tasted they might later purchase. Thank you for dropping by. Always great to hear form you.

By: Charlie Olken

Charlie Olken — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:51:00 +0000

This kind of tasting is a great social exercise, and it makes wine into what it ought to be in the first place–a beverage to be enjoyed for fun and pleasure. Aside from those who never enjoy their food, most of us use food the same way. We grill the onions for our burgers and we place them on breads that are way more interesting than Wonder or its burger roll equivalent.

Good on ya for doing this. You were not looking for detailed tasting notes, even for preference, although I have to say that the only way one comes away from that tasting with actionable content is to have formed a buying preference for one or more of the wines tasted. If preference is treated as a total irrelevancy, then the exercise is academic. Nothing wrong with academic exercises for the fun of it, but the bottom line is that we generally want to spend money on wines we like, and so advancing that cause is never irrelevant as I see it.

Thanks for sharing. Nice story.

By: Admin, Ken Payton

Admin, Ken Payton — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:47:50 +0000

Hi, Tyce. The tasting was great fun. All folks very much enjoyed the experience. Another one is planned for March.

By: Tyce (Wine Trials Associate Editor)

Tyce (Wine Trials Associate Editor) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:37:58 +0000

Sounds like a great tasting, Ken. Hope other wine lovers take your lead and try it out.

By: Rosie Herrera

Rosie Herrera — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:15:42 +0000

Great job! Keep it coming, i like the brown bag wine,concept..

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:47:09 +0000

Awesome! Now take cheap wine, put it in expensive named bottles, not blind, and see what happens. Then get the expensive bottles of real wine, put them next to the fakes and have them guess which bottle is the real one.

You might have some friends not talk to you for a couple weeks, but it’s a good experience.

I’d do it and blog it, but my friends are all on to me after a yellow tail/mollydooker incident I created.

By: gwendolyn alley aka art predator

gwendolyn alley aka art predator — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:09:14 +0000

Such fun! Some friends and I went in on $150 worth of wines from WS Top 100 and plan a tasting. We’re curious what people will score them, both what they’re worth & how they’d score them. Our next tasting will be one like you describe!