Create You Own Wine Tasting Event

May 5th, 2011

Don’t you just love how wine connoisseurs live their lives, tasting premium wines and doing food matching all the time? Well, now you can have a wine tasting afternoon with family or your friends while offering the finest of the Barossa Valley Shiraz wines. The Shiraz is the more popular red wine in Australia. The grape itself is also the most widely planted among the red grapes in the country. The wine is deep, bold, and unique tasting ; and there’s no better way to initiate a wine tasting than with a box of “That Wine is So Fine” Premium Mix. It contains 6 bottles of some of the finest Shiraz wines in Australia: Virgin Hills Cabernet Shiraz Merlot 2003, Songlines McLaren Vale Shiraz 2007, Two Hands Canny Butcher Shiraz 2009, Taylors St. Andrew Shiraz 2004, Peter Lehman 8 Songs Shiraz 2002, and the Chateau Peymouton Saint Emillion Grand Cru 2007. From the names of the wines alone, you can tell you’re in for some luscious and classy wine tasting session.

Even though the Barossa Valley Shiraz has a general characteristic of being fragrant and tasting like dark berries, each of the premium mix wines also has its individual taste and notes. The Peter Lehman 8 Songs for one, is a dark blackish red wine with intriguing notes of chocolates, plums, and smoke. It has interesting flavors of berry fruits and chocolates, complimented well by soft and velvety tannins. It’s best paired with cheeses and hearty meats like salmon, poultry, and steaks. The Chateau Peymouton Saint Emillion Grand Cru, on the other hand, is richer, fruitier, moderately spicy, and has mint notes rather than chocolaty ones. It’s well-structured, balanced, and truly elegant with its fruity and leathery flavors. It’s best drunk with meat pies and potatoes.

Now when you have your Barossa Valley Shiraz wine tasting afternoon, you can lay a table of various gourmet dishes and snacks (mostly cheeses), to cater to the different wines. It’s best to have more wine than food early on to focus on the tasting. And when you’ve savored and studied every bottle, you can party on and munch all you want. It’s best to start with the lighter colored ones, and then progress to the deeper hued bottles for a great succession of flavors.