TOKYO WINE SOCIETY TASTING

Southern All Stars

March 25, 2005

　

The place held: the Restaurant Budo-ya located in OAG House - the German Cultural Institute.
Theme: A battle of Southern Hemisphere Red Wines - Australia, South America and South Africa. All three regions are renowned for great drinking wines offering great cost performance.
Sellected by: Kevin, Monty and Mark.

Comments:
One bottle of Wine F was bad. and that might have effected the result.
Italian Bordeaux type wine was included as a odd ball, but it did not do as we had expected.
The most preferred wine tonight was from South Africa, and the worst wine was also from South Africa. Australia wines are in the Third to sixth. Australian wines are stable in quality about price range of 3000yen. You may get great wine from South African wine, but you still have to take some risk to go for it.

　

No Wine Year Grape Region Yen Shop Points Rank 1s 2s Ls
A Tahbilk, Cabernet Sauvignon 2000 CS Australia 2,500 - 78 4 0 2 1
B Frankland Estate - Rivermist Vineyard 2001 Shiraz Australia 2,800 - 69 3 1 3 2
C Tahbilk, Shiraz 2001 Shiraz Australia 2,500 - 80 5 1 2 1
D Azienda Agricola S. Cristina Cabernet Sauvignon de Veneto 1999 CS, CF Italy 5,000 - 90 8 2 2 1
E Vina Progreso Gran Reserva 2000 CS, Merlot Urguay 3,200 Cave de Re-lax 85 7 0 2 1
F Neil Ellis Shiraz - Jonkershoek Valley 2001 Shiraz South Africa 3,444 Cave de Re-lax 99 9 2 2 5
G Cape Winemakers Guild "Le Riche" - Stellenbosch 2002 CS South Africa 6,000 Cave de Re-lax 55 1 6 0 2
H Toso Cabernet Sauvignon Reserva 2003 CS Chile 3,360 Pieroth 65 2 3 1 0
I Richard Hamilton Colton's SGM - McLaren Vale 2002 Shiraz,
Grenache,
Mourvèdre		 Australia 3,685 Pieroth 81 6 0 1 2

Regends
Rank: 1=Most Prefered, 9=Worst,
1s:No of attendee prefered best,
2s: No of attendee chose second best,
Ls:No of atendee ranked worst

Dishes for tonight

Place: at the restaurent Budo-ya, at OAG house

Appetizer

Soup

Main

Cheese

 Whoops, I ate
before taking
pictures,
Sorry.

Dessert

The Tokyo Wine Society

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