December Wine Group

WINE APPRECIATION GROUP REPORT

Our group met on Monday 16^th December at Sue Huckers house for wine tasting and also an American Supper to celebrate the year of our group activities, and also Christmas and New Year.

The first wine was an Australian wine which obtained an average mark

Of 7 out of 10.

Many thought that it was a clean smelling, very nice light wine, Also it

had a good body to it and a balanced acidity. With regard to the fruit

flavour there was a mixture of answers covering gooseberry, lemon,

raspberry or grape.

Our second wine was a Hardy Merlot and the majority thought it had a

blackcurrant flavour. It seemed to have a strong clean flavour with a

slight tart taste with a musty feeling. Some thought that when swallowing

it was too sharp, and also a sharp twang to nose and back of throat.

Sue confirmed that this wine came from Australia with an average mark

of 6 out of 10,

Our next meeting on Monday 20^th January 2014 and will be at Mike’s in Totton and Liz will be hosting the wines.

It was decided that for the next three meetings we will be tasting wines

from South Africa, so we can learn a bit about them.

Michael Page