Nothing like getting to sample $100 bottles of French wine

[minendo]

Tonight in Wine Appreciation we get to taste three wines. A $14/bottle, a $50/bottle, and a $100/bottle. In fact he has two $100 wines here tonight, but we only get to taste one.

Nothing like taking wine appreciation as an undergrad.🙂

 

[CaseTragedy]

Originally posted by: minendo
Tonight in Wine Appreciation we get to taste three wines. A $14/bottle, a $50/bottle, and a $100/bottle. In fact he has two $100 wines here tonight, but we only get to taste one.

Nothing like taking wine appreciation as an undergrad.🙂

i'm jealous that your univ. has such a cool class. (no sarcasm)

 

[Maleficus]

Alcohol sucks 😛

 

[brtspears2]

Don't you have to spit out the wine in a bucket anyways? Or I have been mislead that drinking the wine makes your taste buds go bad.

 

[BatmanNate]

That's a class??? w00t.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
Don't you have to spit out the wine in a bucket anyways? Or I have been mislead that drinking the wine makes your taste buds go bad.

The professor does not require that we spit it out.

 

[Mr N8]

You need to take a class to appreciate the expensive wines. The cheap stuff just tastes better to me. 🙂

 

[Alptraum]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
Don't you have to spit out the wine in a bucket anyways? Or I have been mislead that drinking the wine makes your taste buds go bad.

Its common for some really snooty types to spit the wine out after a drink before they move on to another. I go to a decent amount of wine tastings and always sort of chuckle at them.

 

[iamme]

so do really old wines really taste better?

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: iamme
so do really old wines really taste better?

Going to find out tonight. The two $100 bottles are from 1985.

 

[Mr N8]

Originally posted by: iamme
so do really old wines really taste better?

If its a fruit wine, then no. Meaning Cherry, blackberry, blueberry, etc. Good California a French wines, though, do get better with age. I'm just not a fan of that type of wine. I learned to like coffee, maybe I'll pick up fine wine.

 

[Alptraum]

Originally posted by: iamme
so do really old wines really taste better?

It depends. I have tasted some old/pricey wines that tasted great. On the other hand age alone is not enough. It needs to be stored properly. Or it goes bad.

Example = A friend's father collected German wines. I mean COLLECTED, lol. Somewhere in the 2000 bottle range and he had put somewhere between $750,000 and 1 million into them. What did he do with them...Let them sit in his garage for like 15 years or something like that. Just about every single bottle went bad. What a waste.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: Alptraum

Originally posted by: brtspears2
Don't you have to spit out the wine in a bucket anyways? Or I have been mislead that drinking the wine makes your taste buds go bad.

Its common for some really snooty types to spit the wine out after a drink before they move on to another. I go to a decent amount of wine tastings and always sort of chuckle at them.

They aren't being snooty, the point is not to get drunk so that you can accurately rate the wine.

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: Alptraum

Originally posted by: iamme
so do really old wines really taste better?

It depends. I have tasted some old/pricey wines that tasted great. On the other hand age alone is not enough. It needs to be stored properly. Or it goes bad.

Example = A friend's father collected German wines. I mean COLLECTED, lol. Somewhere in the 2000 bottle range and he had put somewhere between $750,000 and 1 million into them. What did he do with them...Let them sit in his garage for like 15 years or something like that. Just about every single bottle went bad. What a waste.

what?!

he spends a million bucks and then puts them in his garage??

i'd expect someone with that kind of money to build a wine cellar or something.

 

[Alptraum]

Originally posted by: iamme

Originally posted by: Alptraum

Originally posted by: iamme
so do really old wines really taste better?

It depends. I have tasted some old/pricey wines that tasted great. On the other hand age alone is not enough. It needs to be stored properly. Or it goes bad.

Example = A friend's father collected German wines. I mean COLLECTED, lol. Somewhere in the 2000 bottle range and he had put somewhere between $750,000 and 1 million into them. What did he do with them...Let them sit in his garage for like 15 years or something like that. Just about every single bottle went bad. What a waste.

what?!

he spends a million bucks and then puts them in his garage??

i'd expect someone with that kind of money to build a wine cellar or something.

Yeah, he was a weird guy. We have no idea what he was thinking.

 

[Alptraum]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: Alptraum

Originally posted by: brtspears2
Don't you have to spit out the wine in a bucket anyways? Or I have been mislead that drinking the wine makes your taste buds go bad.

Its common for some really snooty types to spit the wine out after a drink before they move on to another. I go to a decent amount of wine tastings and always sort of chuckle at them.

They aren't being snooty, the point is not to get drunk so that you can accurately rate the wine.

Yeah, I know thats a valid reason some times. Its weird though, I have seen people do it when they only have a total of say 4 tastes. Its not like 4 sips are going to get you drunk. Those are mainly the people I was thinking of.