Florida Wine Flights
About halfway through the Beaujolais last weekend, Fiona had a wonderful idea. An official family wine event. So what if, in Florida, we set up some sort of tasting? I’m proposing a three night affair. One night will be reserved for white wine, one for reds, and one for sparkling. Participants are to submit a wine each night for the house. Initially, it was going to be a competition, and the winner was to receive some token of superiority. But I feel that everyone is a winner at a wine tasting.
A maximum price limit should be set; say $25? We can even have some tasting cards printed to record our findings. Would t-shirts be a little overboard? Of course, the results will appear right here on this website. This gives us about three weeks for “research,” which will consist of drinking excessively from all three categories in hopes of finding “the one.” The rules and guidelines still need a little tweaking, but I think this could possibly be the highlight of this year’s trip. Unless I catch a shark. That would be really cool. This year, I’ve promised myself that I’ll do more than just take fishing poles with me.
June 19th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Works for me! Wow, White, Red and Sparkling, my three favorite types. Hmmm, Sancerre, Chateauneuf de Pape, and a Champagne Blancs de Blancs. Representin’ the FRENCH, baby!
June 19th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Dude you’re not supposed to tell us what your offerings are going to be! Is there going to be a transportation issue? LOL! We are coming prepared this year so we are not subject to daily trips to the liquor store for overpriced wine without a decent selection!
We are also brining our recently completed wine corkboard to serve as a display for the tastings!
June 19th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
@Fiona - Those probably will not be my offerings.
@Chieftain (prophylactically) - Representing the wine not the language.
June 19th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Sign me up!
June 20th, 2008 at 12:06 am
BTW, this is my preferred way to drink wine. Small pours of many different wines. I remember taking my friend Joe to the wine store. We bought a bottle to consume there. I poured a taster in his glass and then he filled it the rest of the way up! Well, sure enough someone soon opened up some sexy shit, and he was stuck with his ginormous glass of wine. You never know what will be opened next!