Guess the Wine - week beginning 29/5
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 3:23 pm
This weeks wine:
TASTING NOTE 1
"A classic wine. With its opulent, melted chocolate, lightly minty flavours, it's fleshy, fruit-sweet and loaded with supple tannin. A cedary, savoury style, and better balanced than many of its ilk".
TASTING NOTE 2
"Aged 16 months in French oak and American hogheads, this larger-than-life, fascinating wine offers big, sweet, blackberry and cassis characteristics intermixed with notions of smoke, licorice, and pain grille. A wine of amazing extract, richness, and full-bodied power, with great purity as well as balance".
To help everybody out, I have provided a few options in a couple of the categories.
Country - Australia
State - Vic/Wa/Sa
Region -
Varietial - Cabernet/Shiraz/Shiraz-Cabernet
Year - 1998/2002/2004
Winery -
Name of Wine -
Have fun. Will reveal State tomorrow.
WINNER LEADERBOARD - YEAR
1 win - Maximus
RULES
Each week 1 or more tasting notes from published wine critics will be given (that will remain anonymous) that all refer to the same wine. It is then up to the Forum to try and guess what the wine is. Points will be given to each Forum member that guess the correct answer about the wine before it is revealed. The categories that will attract points for the right answers are the following:
Country - Will always be Australia (no points awarded)
State - 2 points
Region - 2 points
Varietial - 3 points
Year - 4 points
Winery - 5 points
Name of Wine - 1 point
Everyday one/two categories will be revealed, which will then allow each Forum member to change their guesses for the remaining categories if they want to. This will continue each day until the wine is revealed. The winner is the person with the most points at the end of the week. Unfortunately, there are no prizes, just a chance to show off your wine guessing prowess on the WWW.
TASTING NOTE 1
"A classic wine. With its opulent, melted chocolate, lightly minty flavours, it's fleshy, fruit-sweet and loaded with supple tannin. A cedary, savoury style, and better balanced than many of its ilk".
TASTING NOTE 2
"Aged 16 months in French oak and American hogheads, this larger-than-life, fascinating wine offers big, sweet, blackberry and cassis characteristics intermixed with notions of smoke, licorice, and pain grille. A wine of amazing extract, richness, and full-bodied power, with great purity as well as balance".
To help everybody out, I have provided a few options in a couple of the categories.
Country - Australia
State - Vic/Wa/Sa
Region -
Varietial - Cabernet/Shiraz/Shiraz-Cabernet
Year - 1998/2002/2004
Winery -
Name of Wine -
Have fun. Will reveal State tomorrow.
WINNER LEADERBOARD - YEAR
1 win - Maximus
RULES
Each week 1 or more tasting notes from published wine critics will be given (that will remain anonymous) that all refer to the same wine. It is then up to the Forum to try and guess what the wine is. Points will be given to each Forum member that guess the correct answer about the wine before it is revealed. The categories that will attract points for the right answers are the following:
Country - Will always be Australia (no points awarded)
State - 2 points
Region - 2 points
Varietial - 3 points
Year - 4 points
Winery - 5 points
Name of Wine - 1 point
Everyday one/two categories will be revealed, which will then allow each Forum member to change their guesses for the remaining categories if they want to. This will continue each day until the wine is revealed. The winner is the person with the most points at the end of the week. Unfortunately, there are no prizes, just a chance to show off your wine guessing prowess on the WWW.
