Feeling a little French today

My recent trip to the wine store yielded an all French purchase.  My standard French purchase is a Cotes du Rhone – I got three of them – and I picked up a Beaujolais just to remind my taste buds that Nouveau season is less than 2 months away. If you ever feel in a French state of  mind then give these bottles a flutter.

 

Mommesin Beaujolais – light and playful, because sometime I don’t feel serious $9.95

La Vieille Ferme – you can never go wrong with the Old Farm $11.95

Carte Noire Celliers des Dauphins - drink out of the bottle that Napoleon drank from (well that’s what it looks like to me) $10.95

Louis Bernard Cotes du Rhone - Lou “Boom Boom” Bernard makes a decent CdR  at $11.95

 

La Vieille Ferme – everybody can’t be wrong

  

Did you miss the results of my blind tasting party -  the winner, with 4 out of 7 first place votes, was …

LA VIEILLE FERME C D LUBERON
LCBO 298505 |  Price: $ 11.95

Et en francais …

And the winner is …

 I played a Blind tasting game with my friends Friday night! We all brought  a “bistro red”  that cost around $12. We wrapped them in newspaper, poured them, drank them and voted on them. It was fun but also a little scary as I suspected that everyone else at the table had a better palate than I did – that’s a lot of pressure as the only person there who writes a wine blog.

The bottles identities are hidden in wrapping

The glasses are ready

5 of my glasses and my preliminary notes

The winners – La Vieille Ferme and Trapiche Reserve Malbec

Seven of us ranked the wines and then cast our votes to find the winner and the results were interesting.

 

Best overall score – Trapiche Reserve Malbec 2007 LCBO 614651 | $ 11.95

Most first-place votes – La Vieille Ferme (4 out of 7 first place votes) LCBO 298505 | $ 11.95

My personal favorite (and I was alone on this one) – Monte Antico, Toscana Vintages 069377 | $ 14.95  At least Wine Spectator supported me by scoring it a 90 even if nobody else loved it. 

Other notes of interest – The top two wines scored well ahead of the other four.   Also,  four of the six wines recieved a first place vote!