Meeting September 22nd

At our meeting at Molly and Dave’s this month we had the usual very interesting selection of wine to taste. I am not sure that we are improving at all on our ability to make any correct assumption on a wines provenance in terms of grape and location of the vineyard but if nothing else the group does know what it likes and what it does not. The selection this month was a very interesting comparison of wine from the new world and the old - in this case Mexico v France. The Mexican wine was a La Cetto 2005 Petite Sirah, available from Waitrose at £5.50. Awarded an average score of 7.0, the wine was generally well liked by the group although not a unanimous conclusion, with a couple of dissenters. A rich red colour, with a pleasant smell of a mixture of fruit characters enough to make it interesting and there was one comment of “like the smell of hot tarmac” ; the taste had some sweetness with some tannin, smooth and a medium weight.
The second wine was a La Chasse du Pape available from Asda at £4.98 and which also received an average score of 7.0, although there was a significant difference in opinion, with quite a wide variance in our scores on this occasion with a high of 9.0 and a low of 5.0. Interestingly this was a wine we had tasted previously back in March 2008. Have our tastes changed or maybe our marking? Well it is interesting to go back and read what people said originally. The wine was healthy medium to light red in colour with a clean medium smell of summer fruit. Taste was rather harder to define as a group with a few comments of “nondescript” as well as more favourable descriptions. Molly and Dave also treated us to an outstanding selection of cheese and as usual a great afternoon was had by all.
The next meeting will be at Pam and Mike’s on Tuesday 27th October, 2 pm