joeswine
joeswine
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- Nov 15, 2007
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MAYBE it's because I have been around wine people all my life, yet have been a active wine maker and experimenter for 12 yours now ,that information in my circle especially our wine club is very fluid. We would have competition amongst are selves ,blind tastings and that proved interesting ,we also did meetings were we had wine descriptions and bottles of wine our own and commercial and in the blind try and match the descriptions wine the wine in the bottle, interesting to say the least in results. Most could not identified they own but everyone could target on which one was commercial.
EXAMPLE ,I WON a contest with my amarone and I was to say the last excited so I took a bottle to gino pinto's who oppion I respect a lot, remember I just won professional judges choice ,from extremely important event in Philadelphia, I dropped off the bottle and a week past so I wrote a email and asked if he had tried it? To my shock he stated that the label was excellent the color right on but (what was that god awful taste ?was that the raisins you put in?)well you could have floor me, I replied back to him ,yes, he asked why and I gave him my reasoning, then he rote back to me GIVE IT MORE TIME IN THE BOTTLE OR THE OAK BALANCE WILL NOT WORK.AND I DID ,input no matter were it comes from is important, even if I didn't think that he was correct I still took the time to research amarone, AGAIN and let time do it's thing, but hay I won the contest how much better could It get, IT got very much better, now one batch bottled in 2007 ,is ready for tasting .....
MAYBE it's because I have been around wine people all my life, yet have been a active wine maker and experimenter for 12 yours now ,that information in my circle especially our wine club is very fluid. We would have competition amongst are selves ,blind tastings and that proved interesting ,we also did meetings were we had wine descriptions and bottles of wine our own and commercial and in the blind try and match the descriptions wine the wine in the bottle, interesting to say the least in results. Most could not identified they own but everyone could target on which one was commercial.
EXAMPLE ,I WON a contest with my amarone and I was to say the last excited so I took a bottle to gino pinto's who oppion I respect a lot, remember I just won professional judges choice ,from extremely important event in Philadelphia, I dropped off the bottle and a week past so I wrote a email and asked if he had tried it? To my shock he stated that the label was excellent the color right on but (what was that god awful taste ?was that the raisins you put in?)well you could have floor me, I replied back to him ,yes, he asked why and I gave him my reasoning, then he rote back to me GIVE IT MORE TIME IN THE BOTTLE OR THE OAK BALANCE WILL NOT WORK.AND I DID ,input no matter were it comes from is important, even if I didn't think that he was correct I still took the time to research amarone, AGAIN and let time do it's thing, but hay I won the contest how much better could It get, IT got very much better, now one batch bottled in 2007 ,is ready for tasting .....