{"id":13664,"date":"2013-01-22T18:21:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T00:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vinesleuth.com\/uncorked\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2014-08-27T22:42:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T03:42:47","slug":"bordeaux-cru-classe-wines-tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/bordeaux-cru-classe-wines-tasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine Tastings, Singles Scenes & 52 Bordeaux Cru Class\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Specs<\/a><\/p>\n

Last Thursday night I tasted 52 Bordeaux Cru Class\u00e9 wines from 2010 at a tasting hosted by Spec\u2019s<\/a> in Houston. I tasted them all back to back to back to back… Well, you get the picture. That was a lot of delicious wine to taste almost all at once!<\/p>\n

I went into it knowing nothing about the specific wineries represented. I thought about doing some homework to educate myself a bit, but then I decided to just jump in and taste. I knew about the region in general, but I didn\u2019t have any biases toward any particular winery or wine. Even though I saw the labels and spoke with the delightful representatives from each winery and swooned at their beautiful French accents, I might as well have been tasting blind. And I loved it that way.<\/p>\n

Of course now Bear Dalton, Spec\u2019s Fine Wine Buyer who was gracious enough to invite me and offer me a media comp, might be thinking he wasted it on such a neophyte palate. I do hope (if he\u2019s reading) he\u2019ll reconsider that because I absolutely enjoyed every minute and my tastebuds were singing in delight. If that doesn\u2019t do it, then I could also explain that, after looking at my notes, my very kind husband has instructed me to do some shopping and add to our collection with some of the gems I found.<\/p>\n

Let me tell you how it went.<\/p>\n

The event ran from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m., and I had to be at a dinner at 7, so I arrived ready to taste as soon as the doors were opened. I was given a sheet of paper listing all of the wines, along with their prices, should I decide to purchase any of them at a Spec\u2019s location. I was also given a larger paper folded in half listing all of the wines in the order they were positioned around the room.<\/p>\n

I tucked the price sheet away and got right down to the business of tasting without knowing the prices. I wanted to get my impressions of the wines without any bias.<\/p>\n

I smiled to myself as I remembered Jeremy Parzen\u2019s post in the Houston Press about wine tastings being singles scenes<\/a>. Most of the attendees didn\u2019t strike me as those looking for dates. The first person I tasted with and chatted with about the event said she was there with the Shell retiree group. Most of those tasting were there with someone who appeared to be a spouse, but not all. Hmm.<\/p>\n

So maybe Jeremy was referring the wines. I guess in dating you could also choose to educate yourself on potential dates or just see what you think as the experience unwinds. Back in my days of being single, I also just jumped in and\u00a0 relied on my impressions of dates rather than educating myself first.<\/p>\n

But back to the wine…<\/p>\n

\"You<\/a><\/p>\n

I scribbled a few notes on many of the wines as I tasted and I, unlike most of those tasting, swirled, sipped, savored (or at least soaked in) as much as I could and then spit. I had a lot of wines to taste and needed to stay crisp, so spitting was required. I know that I would have enjoyed lingering over many of those wines, really savoring them, but I had to do what I had to do.\u00a0 So I felt very unladylike and spit. Gorgeous wines. For about 2 hours.<\/p>\n

My favorites (in the order I tasted them) were:<\/p>\n