Saturday Comparative Wine Tasting
Turtle Run WineryContinuing our Saturday "tradition," if you can call this popular comparative tasting a tradition since we have only been doing this for a few weeks now, but let's see if we can taste some contrasts between vintages and within vintages and in blending. We do have some limited quantities on some wines that will be compared. In no particular order....... Syrah 2023 to Syrah 2023 just bottled. The newly minted Syrah aged in the barn and has a dash of 2024 Syrah and 2024 Cab Franc, whereas the older bottled Syrah 2023 has a dash of 2023 Cab Sauv. Rhapsody in White versus Rhapsody in White. Both are blends of barrel aged and fermented Vignoles and tank aged Chardonnay. When blending the new version we didn't open a bottle of the version we bottled last year. That should be fun. Slip My Mind 2024 versus the 2017 with the botrytis bacteria. Can you taste the difference that aging and especially a bacteria can have an effect on the wine? It will be obvious that you can see the difference. Sweet wine with dynamic flavors! Then if someone twists my arm, how about Malbec 2023 versus Malbec 2024? To get the 2024 to remotely come close to tasting like the 2023, we blended a little 2024 Syrah and 2024 Cab Franc into the blend.