Team Bancroft's Sean and Mike headed to Cambridge yesterday to host a college tasting....
Here's what they got up to!
After a few events at Gonville
and Caius College, Bancroft returned to St. Catherine’s College on Trumpington
Street for the 2014 Spring college tasting. The light and airy room is a
perfect venue and almost seems purpose built for wine tastings.
Weather in Cambridge was two
extremes, the first tasters arrived in short sleeved shirts, smiling in the
sunshine. These were shortly followed by rain sodden visitors with drenched
hair and squelchy shoes.
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| Mike is ready to get tasting! |
The wines we showed were as
mixed as the weather, covering four continents, over forty grape varieties, a
wide price range and various levels of seriousness. Without realising it,
Bordeaux was not represented and not a single wine from this region was on show
– this rather reflects consumers feelings towards this region at the present
time, with the Bordeaux en primeur 2013 campaign failing to ignite any
interest.
The attendees were most
impressed with the variety of styles in the line up; “I have learned a
lot from this event” and “I bet this was fun to put together”
were a couple of comments....but the appreciative comments were also followed
with some trepidation. Even though the wines showed well and were appeciated,
some people were worried about convincing others to try quirky grape varieties
and wines from new, up and coming regions.
I think it is the job of the
wine merchant, to try and move people away from all the normal, ubiquitous
wines....mind you, with the ever increasing prices in Bordeaux and ever
decreasing amounts of Burgundy available, these unusual grape varieties and new
wine growing regions are undoubtedly going to have an increased interest in the
near future. Although, it is still unlikely Ribolla from Slovenia will ever
overtake Pinot Grigio from Italy.
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