6th Anniversary Global Wine Regions List
Please post the regions you tasted today (and any more information about the wines) in the comments below. Do you think it’s possible to beat 314 (which was last year’s grape total)? Let’s give it our best shot! running total: 131 Whew! We broke one hundred! Snake River Valley AVA Red Mountain AVA Walla Walla...
Sixth Anniversary – Global Tasting Challenge
We’re now 1,023 members strong and growing! Included in this number are 30 Doppel Members, seven Treble Members and three Quattro Members. Our annual celebration and challenge is once again online in recognition of the international nature of the club, but this year is going to be somewhat different. Last year we collectively tasted 314...
Le Grand Prix du Cépage – We Have a Winner!
After thoroughly checking the applications for synonyms, clones, steroids and other performance enhancing drugs, we now have an official winner. Thomas Reagan, Jr of Georgia is the champion with 431 grape varieties. He just edged out Michael Mangahas of Maryland who had 419 grape varieties. Congratulations, Tom!
Breaking . . . Le Grand Prix du Cépage . . . currently counting
I have two giant applications that I am still assessing for duplicates. We will have a winner later today! Update . . . lots and lots of synonyms to check . . . count is going into the night . . .
Le Grand Prix du Cépage
We’re currently 779 members strong, with 28 doppel members, 5 treble members and one quattro member. While membership is increasing dramatically, more and more members are continuing their quest to Doppel levels and beyond. To honor this sense of adventure and crazed obsessiveness, I am announcing a contest and award for the most grape varieties...
Our 5th Birthday – Events Around the World
Washington DC Our event went really well this weekend- there were 52 people and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. Wines Tasted: Vilarnau Cava Brut NV, (Penedes, Spain) [Macabeo, Xarello, Parellada] Gran Sarao Cava Rose NV (Penedes, Spain) [Trepat] Conde Villar Vinho Verde Branco Seco 2008 (Minho, Portugal) [Loureiro, Trajadura] Quinta do Crasto Douro 2007 (Douro,...
314 Grape Varieties in a Day
It’s amazing that we nearly doubled last year’s formidable number of grapes. It’s high time to sit back, take a much needed rest and wallow in the glory that is us. Here’s the summary in alphabetical order. I’ve pruned as many synonyms out as possible but there may be a few remaining. Some of the...
A Wine with 152 Grape Varieties
That’s 95 more than Heinz’s 57! And in one bottle no less! Through the generosity of Tom Reagan (our reigning champ with 426 varieties) I was able to try the 2005 Giribaldi Cento Uve Lange DOC a wine that our sole Indian member, sommelier Subhash Arora, has written about. Obviously this wine poses a problem...
5th Anniversary Giant International Grape Vat
Please post the varieties you tasted today (and any more information about the wines) in the comments below. With NYC reporting in, we’ve almost doubled last year’s 159! We are the world, we are the grapes. . . running total: 314! Alfrocheiro Alicante Bouschet Alphonse Lavallee Ansonica Aramon Arinarnoa Aspiran Aubun Barbera Bourboulenc Bobal Bonarda...
The Wine Century Club Turns 5!
We’re now 721 members strong and growing! Included in this number are 24 Doppel Members and one Treble Member. This year, we’re again going to celebrate online (and in local groups in) recognition of the international nature of the club. With a little diligence, focus and graptitute we should be able to make short work...
Discovering Tastes: Some Tips for Becoming a Wine Century Club Member
For most people, becoming a Wine Century Club member means starting a quest. It is the very rare wine drinker who can sit down with the application and be able to check off 100 grapes with ease. But although the task of reaching 100 may appear daunting at first – and for most potential members,...
Preparations for Christmas
Although most of us will not commence our preparations for Christmas until the beginning of Advent, without doubt we are already being bombarded with the shops and other commercial operations via TV, newspapers, the mail, and the Internet, all trying to attract our attention to but this and that since the beginning of November, and...