My poor neglected wine blog! I may not have posted here for more than five years, but rest assured this does not mean I have stopped drinking wine. Interestingly, my tastes have changed somewhat; whereas previously I was fairly critical of whites, I've come to enjoy them much more. For a while my favorite was Little Penguin Chardonnay . . . then it disappeared from the stores for a time . . . and when it came back it just wasn't the same. (Maybe they had a bad year and I should try it again?) Meanwhile my favorite white is the chardonnay from Bogle Vineyards. And our go-to red is the Marques de Riscal Rioja.
But that is not why I came here today. I'm here to tell you about Tasting Room. It's my birthday today (happy birthday to me!) and one gift my husband gave me was a Tasting Room subscription. It starts with a little book-sized box containing six tiny bottles of wine: two white, four red. They're meant to be compared in pairs. After tasting, we sign in to our account at tastingroom.com/rate and click our favorites, and future shipments (of full-sized bottles) are based on our preferences from this tasting kit. At least I think that's how it works. Right here at the beginning of the subscription it's possible I have a few details wrong.
We started with the whites at lunch today: Uenuku Sauvignon Blanc 2017 (New Zealand) and Morningside Chardonnay 2016 (Australia). Unfortunately for refinement of my future Tasting Room shipments, I liked them both. The sauvignon blanc was light, crisp, citrusy and a bit sweet--I tend to avoid sweet wines, but maybe I shouldn't, because I really liked this one. It reminded me of cheese boards on the piazza at 86 Cannon in Charleston. The chardonnay was perfectly nice, and more similar to what I would usually drink . . . although I must admit I added my old reliable Bogle to this tasting flight and preferred it.
We haven't dipped into the reds yet but plan to do so over a cheese board here at home this afternoon. I can't promise I'll ever get around to writing about those . . . we'll see.
But that is not why I came here today. I'm here to tell you about Tasting Room. It's my birthday today (happy birthday to me!) and one gift my husband gave me was a Tasting Room subscription. It starts with a little book-sized box containing six tiny bottles of wine: two white, four red. They're meant to be compared in pairs. After tasting, we sign in to our account at tastingroom.com/rate and click our favorites, and future shipments (of full-sized bottles) are based on our preferences from this tasting kit. At least I think that's how it works. Right here at the beginning of the subscription it's possible I have a few details wrong.
