Napa Vs. Washington State - Blind tasting
Bobby Van's on Park, NYC
Tasted September 13, 2019 by SMHalps with 110 views
Introduction
A Friday night steakhouse dinner with 8 members of my NYC wine group. We had, 1 Napa Chardonnay, followed by two flights of blinded pairs of red wines. All the wines were opened, but not decanted, for about an hour before pouring. We knew in advance that two of the four reds were from Napa and two were from Washington state. We had the names and vintages of the four wines and the tasting notes from the Wine Advocate. Since the wines were covered in paper bags, the order of the wines was completely random.
Flight 1 - Opening wine, non blind White (1 note)
Flight 2 - 1st blind pair (2 notes)
Two wines, chosen at random from the 4 reds.
Flight 3 - 2nd blind pair (2 notes)
Two wines, chosen at random from the 4 reds.
Closing
Everyone was asked to try and identify which wines were from Napa, and which ones were from Washington State. We also took a vote on our favorite wines of the night, vote splitting was allowed. The results were: wine #1, the Anderson's Conn Valley Eloge, was the favorite with 3 votes. Half the group thought it was WA state. Wine #2, 2013 Avennia Sestina had 2 1/2 votes, and again, half the group thought it was WA state. Wine #3 was the Andrew Will Champoux, and had 1 1/2 votes for the favorite and 6 of us thought it was WA state. The 2012 Lail Bluebird, came in last with only 1 vote as a favorite (and no one felt it was a 2nd favorite either), and 6 of us ID'd it as a Napa wine.