Task number: 78.
Drink a vintage wine.
Date :1st April 2011.
Location: The Vintage wine bar, Hilversum, Netherlands.
Attendees: Yvonne Weatherlake.
I’m going to say this before it
sounds like I’m showing off. A lot of people think a vintage wine has to be
either old or expensive or both. This is not the case. The phrase vintage
simply means that it was a good year for that grape. The conditions were
considered just right to create the best possible taste. This can be anything
from a dry arid summer to a frost ridden winter.
I have tried quite a few vintage
wines in my time & I wouldn’t consider One better than the other, just
because it was vintage, but I’ve never kept a record. After all, it’s wet isn’t
it? So, after this task first presented itself I knew I’d had quite a few of
these already & I knew I would have quite a few more before I finally kept
the label & placed that achieved star in the book.
One Saturday afternoon, last
summer my girlfriend & I were at a loose end, so we decided to venture down
to a newly opened wine just around the corner from where we live. Pretty much
the only thing they sold was vintage wine, so something told me that this time
I might strike it lucky with this task.
I choose an Austrian Red. It was
only a few years old, but it was still vintage & none the les very tasty.
I’d love to describe the aromatic & delicate flavours of tobacco &
Chocolate, but I’d feel like a ponce & you wouldn’t appreciate it anyway!
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