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Contest Secret Wine

[Oulala, shame! This post is read by funny and knowing the correct answer was (!!!). Wine tasting It is now acted that I tasted like a pony!]

I found excellent and innovative concept " Secret Wine", an idea of Clair de Lune to offer a "Cyber-blind tasting." The contest consite to reach bloggers wine-bottles of wine "mysteries", and award a prize to the first respondent to give the correct answer.



I tasted the wines with the confederate Seb, a fellow promotion of the Master of the OIV, wine shop in his spare time in the 17th in Paris (" Runners Terroirs", run-y)

Our verdict was immediate and without debate: "New World!"

I voted the first day. But over time, noting that all other bloggers had proposed designations French (Rhone and Languedoc, the largest number), doubts assailed me: we are then planted at this point?! [Note: I post this post before I knew the answer in the contest, it's more fun]

I confess to having read and reread a couple of times the contest rules, to ensure there was no stated that it was French wines.

Well, okay, we tasted the wines a bit warm (19/20 °), and Seb had a cold, but still!

It seemed obvious that the wines were very "developed", where the influence of the winemaker seemed very important (I'm paraphrasing Jaime Good which rightly says in his blog WineAnorak ("Winemaking Often Overwhelm style sense of place here ")

At first wine tasting (the 390), Seb and I do not put half a second we exclaim:" Oulala, that's the New World. "Like that, instinctively, without going into the analysis.

Upon examination, we found powerful aromas of menthol, black fruit very ripe, exuberant wine built on Alcohol, with an acidity of "suspect" for such maturity. Cooked and spicy aromas, see "viandards" We have to quickly think of a Syrah as the only Australians know how to do ...

The second wine (079) immediately made me think of a Merlot Napa: ripe strawberry jam, power, volume, immediate pleasure, (but digestibility questionable ...) Except in Napa or Chile, we sees little of this kind.

When the third, I saw a dead ringer for a wine tasting recently, which was a good Pinot Black Chile (Laroche Punto Alto area).
On one side the characteristic aromas of berries, but in the mouth, power and smoothness to my knowledge impossible to achieve in Burgundy.

Moonlight confirms that this is only one production area, so I tend to Australia, although Pinot seems to "work".
Chile does not seem at all impossible, but it is a single production zone, I hesitate too: Casablanca and Maipo?

Tasting with Seb Driving in New Zealand, Winter 2007

My first votes were:

390: Shiraz Barossa Valley, Australia
079: Merlot Napa Valley - USA
714: Black Casablanca Pinot.

Second vote:

390: Barossa Valley, Australia
079: Barossa Valley, Australia
714: Barossa Valley, Australia