Here is the usual way to find the favorite wine during the typical weekend. You drive up to Napa or Sonoma to find a lovely winery and pay $xx to taste various wines in an hour or so and drive down the road to find another winery to do the same thing. You (maybe only I) feel pure pressure to find the bottle you like and bring some nice bottle(s) home. Well, after a couple of wineries, I usually have become tipsy (but not wasted) and won’t remember much about the taste of wine afterward. Yeah, I should take notes and pictures to remember!
I don’t feel bad because I can still enjoy the nice conversation on the way and beautiful view of the grape vines.
If I cannot afford to drive 2 hours to find a favorite wine every weekend, then why don’t I bring the wine tasting to home? Yay, I recently came up the idea to do wine tasting at home. My search of wine will be focused on affordability and finding matches with home cooked meals.
With the help of my darling, we went to Trader Joe’s to buy 9 bottles of red Cabernet Sovereign with a price range from $2 to $10 per bottle. I will find my favorite bottle from these 9 by creating a tournament bracket. Each match will be grouped by 3 bottles. Only one winner of the bottles can proceed to the next tier. Those 3 winners will be part of the final match. The winner of the final match will be the champion, in another words, my favorite wine. Let the tournament begin!
Tier 1
TBA
Sounds like a good idea. I wonder what type of wine will win in that low end range ($2-10) and how that winner will compare to a medium range wine.
Thanks for the review. I will update what I’ve done so far (Tier 1) soon. I will stick with the low end range of wines for now. When I become more sophisticate about wine tasting, I can invest more $$ to find my favorite bottle for a medium range to high-end