Great little tasting last night where we matched four Bordeaux wines - all from our Chai against four similar wines from the Rest of the World. Anne Linder represented Le Chai (which she originally brought into being for us). I represented TROTW. Rather a one sided match, you'd think. Me too. I was confident of an easy win. However, in the event, after the attendees had voted, I only avoided a draw by two votes on the final wine.
Anne and I each made the case for our wines, whilst customers sipped. We then got everyone to vote on the count of three to minimise peer-influence. (Everyone, research now shows, possesses a different set of taste receptors. The days when people felt they SHOULD like a wine because their wine buff mate liked it are now over.)
Chilean Sauvignon 2010 won by a small margin over Laithwaites Sauvignon 2010.
Le Chai's Medoc 2009 won over Don Cayetano's Chilean Merlot
Hickinbotham's Clarendon Syrah won over Jean Marc's 'Part du Boucher'.
And Le Grand Chai Sauternes 2006 was just pipped by Bill Calabria's West End Botrytis Semillon 2006 … by one vote.
Good fun, lively audience. Bracknell's Mayor in full regalia and local Press reporting the result.
Thanks to Michael McAuley and his team. A great evening.
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