Enriching Lifestyles 2
The Line Up
On May 23, I led a wine tasting for the second Enriching Lifestyles group meeting. Eleven participants gathered at the Berry Bros & Rudd tasting room in Tokyo. They were mostly new to wine tasting, but they are very enthusiastic and interested. Everybody had a lot of fun. I gave a talk on some of the choices that winemakers face when they make white wines and red wines. And then we tasted 7 wines (four whites and three reds) that displayed some of the characteristics that are achieved through winemaking – as well as different terroirs. Two wines, a Sancerre and a Graves were fascinating to compare and contrast. The Sancerre, 100% Sauvignon Blanc and fermented and aged in stainless steel, tasted lively and fresh, full of citrus fruitiness and a mineral finish. The Graves, a blend of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon, was aged in wood. It was a heavier wine with more body and it had complex nose of fruit and honey and vanilla. We added yet more contrast to the whites with a low-alcohol German Riesling that gave off characteristic hints of lime and petroleum as well as a Viognier from the Rhone Valley. The latter gave off wonderful apricot aromas but was powerful and dry in the mouth.
The reds included a 2001 Pauillac (Chateau Batailley), a 2007 Vacqueyras and a 2004 Vino Nobile di Montalcino. So we could experience the differences in color and bouquet that result from bottle aging.
In the video below I talk about the wines that we tasted.
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