A couple of weekends ago I attended two nice wine events. On Saturday I attended a rundraiser for Wheeling Forward, an organization that helps people with disabilities that was held at City Winery at 155 Varick Street and featured over a hundred wines donated for the event. Sundays event was the Grand Tasting which was part of a week long food and wine festival sponsored by Westchester Magazine with the wines provided for by Zacheys wine shop located in Scarsdale. The event was held at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in White Plains and featured many local restaurants serving bites of food and much good juice. The problem was that I had a massive head cold and my palate was shot. I mean completely shot, I couldn’t smell anything, all aromas were closed down which meant that white wines tasted flat and red wines tasted like bitter cherries. Everything tasted the same. At both events I ended up drinking sparking wines because the bubbles at least made the juice interesting. At the Westchester event that included:
Gosset Brut Excellence NV
Mumm Cordon Rouge Brut NV
2006 Perrier-Jouet Belle Epoque
2002 Dom Ruinart
Henroit Souverain Brut NV
Barons de Rothschild Brut NV
Chateau de L’Aulee Brut Intense NV
2013 Chateau Miraval Cotes de Provence Rosé
2010 Schramsberg Blanc de Blancs
Roederer Estate Brut NV Brut Prestige NV
2011 Raventos I Blanc De Nit Cava Rosé
Ferrari Brut NV
Berlucchi Cuvee 61 Rosé NV
It was an interesting weekend in learning on how much the ability to pick up aromas affected how wine tastes.
