UNCORKED
Be under no illusion we are not a SERIOUS wine club, we get on well and have fun. Someone said to me once, that we were the worst kind of wine club (how very dare they) needless to say they were from one of those ‘snobby ’ clubs. We are ’50 somethings’ with some of us a tad older; I’ll mention no names, who enjoy drinking wines that are affordable. We do swirl and sniff the wine, make random comments about the flavours and aromas, just like those ‘others’ BUT WE DRINK IT!
So a little background to our Wine Club ‘Uncorked’ and an insight into what goes on (or is supposed to)
My friends and I enjoy getting together for a chat and a glass of wine (or two), so I thought it might be fun to start a wine club, I remember the first one it was in the summer outside in our garden we all brought along a bottle of wine and ‘had a go’ at wine tasting, it went okay so we held another and another, we never thought we’d still be doing it.. we have met every month (with the odd exception of August) since about 2002, none of us can quite remember the year, its fuzzy after all that wine drinking…sorry I mean tasting, anyway not bad going..
The formula has changed over the years but we have settled into meeting every third Saturday in the month, each taking a turn to host, the host decides which wine will be tasted, could be a country or grape, each couple brings a bottle that has been wrapped for a blind tasting. The host supplies the food, again no pressure here; it can just be bread & cheese or a full blown meal.
We have tasting sheets and make notes about the wine and vote at the end for the best one of the evening. Now this sounds as if we know what we are doing, however, we like to DRINK the wine so usually after the first two have been tasted the note making gets less and the conversation gets louder, much louder!
However, there are some among us, I mention no names here, that rarely put pen to paper the whole evening, there are a few that hardly drink (!) and then there are the rest of us…you will meet us all over the coming months, not in the literal sense of course but that out there in cyber space kind of way !
The group grew at one point to sixteen, as friends of friends joined, you can imagine this is a squeeze round most tables, we are now settled at ten which works well, most of the time we are all there. We recently added the extra dimension that the host could invite a ‘guest/s’ to join the evening…how friendly are we ?!?!
This Blog is new but you can read about what’s gone on over the years on my old Blog www.wineclubuncorked.blogspot.co.uk
I have started afresh so to speak because I was having trouble loading the photos onto blogspot (drove me mad in the end) I think it is somehow possible to transfer it all over but after reading through the process a few times and each time it was becoming more foggy, I thought forget it just start again .. so hope you enjoy reading & if you do please click the link to follow the blog so I know you are out there somewhere reading this. (Opps now sounding a bit desperate)
This new Blog is also going to feature a few extras:
- Recipes that go with the wines we are tasting
- Food & Wine Pairing suggestions each month
- Dinner with friends home or out & about
Feel free to contact me e. friendsofuncorked@gmail.com
Well as tradition has it –
Time to stick a cork in it
Bye S x
Learn more – Wine Follys Guide to Tasting Notes – Take note !
http://winefolly.com/review/write-excellent-wine-tasting-notes
Wine Club Uncorked 