We’ve decided to start a new project and resuscitate our moribund joint blog – this was inspired by our friend Brett’s OTTBeerDiary project, in which he reported on 365 craft beers in 2015 (but actually sampled (hopefully not finished) a staggering 1125 beers in 2015, including over a thousand he hadn’t tried before. We are not as crazy dedicated as Brett, so we’re only committing to report on one wine per week, though we may write abut more. We tend to have wine 3-4 times a week. Sometimes we restrain ourselves and take a couple days to finish a bottle. Sometimes we have wines we’ve had before. We won’t insist on having all new wines this year, but we won’t write about one wine more than once – unless we think it’s really changed as it aged. Wines of the same type from the same vineyard do change a lot from year to year, so we’ll treat each vintage as unique.
The wine writings will be over in our Avontuur blog, but I will either crosspost or link from here – or write about the story behind the tasting here.
Here’s all the background and explanation of how we describe a wine, and an explanation of our rating system: Embarking on a wine adventure.
Here’s our first wine adventure: Montinore, special blend. Yes, we started out by cheating, a little.