Wine tasting party

To celebrate our one year anniversary, Molldrew decided to hold a blind wine tasting, an idea borrowed from our friends in the Agriculture Department at the Australian Embassy. Everyone was asked to bring a bottle of wine. We then covered up the names of the wines and went around tasting them!

The evening was great fun, aided by our friends bringing along a diverse selection of wines. It was great chatting with friends and acting like we were wine experts!

The results were:

In the red wines category:

1. #20 Smithbrook Pemberton (AUS) - Cab Sav 2008 (Average Rating: 2.67 out of 5)
2. #14 Pirramimma (AUS) – McLaren Vale Petit Verdot Vintage 2008 (2.58)
3. #12 Trapiche Varietals (ARG) – Malbec 2010 (2.27)
4. #8 Windy Peak (AUS) - Pinot Noir 2011 (2.17)
5. #17 Georges Dubduef (FRA) – Merlot Pays D'oc 2009 (1.73)
6. #11 Chateau Mrjosse (FRA) – Bordeaux (1.36)

The French reds took a pounding. And the top rating red was provided by... surprise, surprise, Anita!

In the white wines category:

1. #15 Fiorella (AUS) - Moscato 2011 (3.88)
2. #16 Lindemans (AUS) - Porphyry Blanc (3.43)
3. #6 Arrogant Frog (FRA) - Sav Blanc 2011 (2.83)
4. #9 British American Tobacco (ANZ) – Pinoy Chardonnay 2009 (2.70)
5. #2 Stoneleigh (NZ) – Sav Blanc 2011 (2.63)
6. #21 Olvine (AUS) - Little Wine Company - Viognier 2006 (2.14)

Nice to see the French make a good recovery there! However, if you want to keep most people happy, choose Moscato.

In the other wines category:

1. #3 Fresita (CHI) – Sparkling wine with handpicked Strawberries (3.27)
2. #1 Stone's (AUS) Original Green Ginger Wine (3.12)
3. #13 Golden Drop Mango Wine (AUS) - Sweet (2.50)
4. #5 Golden Drop Mango Wine (AUS) - Medium (2.31)
5. #7 Egervin (HUN) - Debroi Harslevelu – Med Sweet white (1.28)

The Fresita was a crowd favourite. It was the only wine fully consumed on the night.

The Green Ginger Wine was a nice pick by Catherine, as it was the most divisive wine of the night. Most people either loved the ginger flavour (and gave it 5 stars), or hated it (and gave it practically nothing).

The big disappointment of the evening was the Hungarian wine, the notorious #7. Hungarian wines stormed the Australian Embassy wine tasting, but this one really didn't make the grade.

In the others category:

#4 Wildbrumby Schnapps - Pink Lady Apple Liqueur (3.91)

Very tasty and a nice way to end the night.

Which then led us to an interesting question.. Did people like more expensive wines? To this we turned to statistics..

It seems that spending more money on wines did not have much of an effect on the average person's enjoyment. Our group seemed to prefer the cheaper white wines to the more expensive red ones.

Thanks everyone for coming, it was a really great time!