Pune Gourmet Club - Wine & Tapas Evening

Shankar — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 03:25:57 GMT

The inaugural Wine and Tapas Evening of the Pune Gourmet Club held on Sunday September 10, 2006 was a huge success with 14 people attending. Each member was required to bring four servings of one Tapa. Indian snacks like samosas, pakodas were strictly not allowed. The members outdid themselves and one was spoilt for choice. Tapas included chicken tikkas marinated in pomegranate juice and cooked with olives, crostinis, fritatas, green pepper stuffed with corn/cheese mix topped with salsa, garlic prawns, empenadas, fried rolls with fresh asparagus, cherry tomatoes stuffed with olive tapenade to name just a few.

The wines were blind served. IE. all bottles were wrapped in foil and numbered. Members were given slips of paper with a list of 6 numbers and 3 comment options which were alloted points. Good/Will buy(2 points), Chalega/May buy (1 point) and Yuck/Will never buy ( 0 Points). At the end of the evening, the slips were collected and points totalled.

The rankings with points earned are as follows

Grover Cabernet Shiraz (18)

ND Wines Cabernet Syrah (18)

Rising Sun Vineyards Cabernet Shiraz (12)

Sula Madera Red Wine (11)

Vinsura Zinfandel (11)

Sula Cabernet Shiraz (7)

One member correctly identified bottle # 5 as a Zinfandel.

All wines were bought locally except for the Zinfandel which came with the compliments if Vinsura.

A selection of white wines will be sampled at our next meeting sometime in October.

The next meeting of the Pune Gourmet Club will be held in October to sample Indian Sauvignon Blanc and Chenin Blanc.

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