Thank you very much to everyone who attended our Australian Opulence virtual tasting event tonight! You’ve shown some wonderful wines from many of Australia’s wine regions and it’s been a fantastic night as usual!
It’s now time to get our next virtual tasting in the diary:
New #TWSTaste Virtual Wine Tasting: ‘Weird’ Wines, Thursday 28th May, [just after] 8pm-9pm
Like our previous few tastings, we’re asking you to raid your wine rack to see what you’ve already got at home, and join together to taste along live next Thursday.
Before we start, we’ll clarify one thing - we don’t believe there are any ‘weird’ wines! One person’s ‘weird’ wine is another person’s treasure! For this tasting, we’re looking for unusual grapes, regions and styles - this will be a chance to explore new wines that you may not have come across before, and an opportunity to stray off the beaten track. Between us, we’ll be trying all things ‘weird’ and wonderful!
It doesn’t matter if it’s a zweigelt from Austria, a marselan from the Languedoc or a Viorica from Moldova - anything that you want to open is welcome, as are you!
If you haven’t got any unusual wines and want to open something else and taste along, that’s fine too. Bring along a bottle and join in anyway - you’ll almost definitely find some inspiration for different wines to put on your ‘must try’ list!
Here’s how to take part:
Have a look to see if you have any ‘weird’ wines at home. If you don’t, you can currently make your own mixed cases up from our website for delivery, or your nearest indie wine merchant may be able to deliver if our delivery dates before next Thursday are full.
Reply to this topic saying what ‘weird’ wine you’ve got - and if you’ve got more than one option, do share notes with your fellow members here and get advice about which bottle to open (feel free to open more than one if you like…). You could also get some serving suggestions/food matches lined up.
Log in to the Community just before 8pm on Thursday 28th May - there’ll be a topic called ‘LIVE #TWSTaste: ‘Weird’ Wines’ where we’ll host the live event. We’ll all say which bottles we’re opening/share photos of the bottles, and then we’ll taste along together and compare notes, just like we do for a normal #TWSTaste event.
Don’t worry - we always start the event properly a few minutes after 8pm so we can all join in with #clapforourcarers, if you’d like to participate.
I’d like to nominate my father’s Pea Pod Champagne. I say I would like to, but I can’t as it all blew up.
Still, it would be fun to see if fifty years could improve it.
We had this very Trousseau a few weeks ago - it’s a winner (then again we like the grape and the style)! if you do end up opening it I’d be really curious to see what you think…
Agreed!
Same day I bought this one I also got a wine called Odd Lot - a Petit Sirah/Petit Verdot blend from Monterey, CA. It was excellent value for money (£9.99), and delicious. Would have loved to have another bottle… As you say - it’s a risk-free way to experiment!
Is this something you’ve had before? I followed the link and some of the prices seem, shall we say, optimistic (over £90/kg for lardo? Though to be fair the pancetta and whole salami are somewhat excepted), and my basic impression of various UK charcuterie producers I’ve tried is mighty prices for often not very good products. But I haven’t tried these, and if you’d recommend them, I do like the idea in principle.
The back label says that it is ‘globally unique’, which to me is not necessarily a plus. There might be a good reason why nobody anywhere ever mixes beer, mead and rum - yes, rum - except as a late-night student dare.
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if you do end up opening it I’d be really curious to see what you think…
