VWC June 20th 2009 19.30 hrs (BST)

[lockwood1956]

Subject this time will be the educate your palate videos, I will be online to answer any questions you may have

Part One

Part Two


solutions for educating palate
5 grams (1 level tsp) of sugar in 100ml water
5 grams (1 level tsp) of citric or tartaric acid in 100ml water
5 grams (1 level tsp) of salt in 100ml water
1 grams (1/4 tsp) of wine or grape tannin in 100ml water

followed by general Q&A

Wine for tasting session....weight watchers white (available at tesco and Morrisons, also other supermarkets too i'm sure, and available in 250ml size as well as 750ml)

then general chat session

pics of tongue...

to illustrate where you taste the various things.

and downloadable placemat for your glasses, and wine evaluation chart including aroma wheel

http://www.vinovixenz.com/Wine101/pd...20placemat.pdf

Attached Thumbnails

[goldseal]

Apologies folks, just realised I'm double-booked

Shame, because my palette defintely needs educating. I promise to do the exercises on my own

[Richard S]

I promise to do the exercises on my own

I am restricted from giving this the answer it deserves.

[Richard S]

Moff to Morissons to grab a bottle of Weight Watchers Fruity White.

[NorthernWiner]

I will try to attend today, although I can't make any 100% guarantees. The missus is threatening to drag me uptown to some arts & crafts fair to celebrate the father's day holiday.

I'm not exactly sure how that works. It's my holiday, but we end up doing only things that she likes.

[NorthernWiner]

Oh.... and no Weight Watchers wine available here. So I will be joining in with a full-fat Riesling. No, I realize it's not the same, but I should nevertheless be able to pick up on some of the same Riesling-esque qualities. And what the hell, it's an opportunity to drink mid-afternoon.

[Jan]

Sorry I couldn't make it either. Out with friends last night. Will do my best next time though. The wine for tasting sounds nice!

[goldseal]

I hope you had more fun than me. I was forced to watch a film I didn't want to watch.

And I couldn't drink on account of being in charge of a motor vehicle.

[Jan]

You poor thing, I did do rather better than that. Had Indian takeaway with friends and I opened a bottle of rather nice red wine that we brought back from France a few years ago. In the interests of research of course to see if it was ready to drink. Pity only one other person there who drinks red wine so we had to drink the whole bottle ourselves! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!

[spritzer]

I couldn't make it sorry
Was in London for the weekend.
We had such a great weekend.
My face is killing me, from laughing so much

Hope you all had a fab time too

[Mamgiowl]

My apologies too - Saturday is so-o not a good for me to be on line