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We hosted our soon-to-be-annual House Wine Tasting today. This is a double-blind tasting event in which every wine meets these criteria:
a) it’s red
b) a bottle costs less than five bucks
As you know, in a traditional blind tasting, the tasters do not know which wine they’re tasting. What makes this tasting “double blind,” you ask? For an accurate answer you’d have to pose that question to my ophthalmologist: his prescriptions for my contact lenses continue onto a second page.
The goal was to find an inexpensive wine that is not so vile that we couldn’t stand to drink it 3-4 nights a week.
Testing methodology
Each participant was given 3 glasses and a scoring sheet, and whatever encouragement seemed necessary at the time (“Drink faster, damnit!”) Tasters assigned points to each wine, with higher scores indicating better wines.
Spit buckets were provided and indeed saw some use — there was one merlot in particular that was absolutely foul.
After each flight, scores were tallied. Final scores appear below.
Final Scores
Cabs
Merlots
Zins
