In the depths of winter and with our European bicycle tour guides in the Boston office, what is our favorite thing to do?

Blind wine tasting of course!

So, how does this work? Well, Andy Levine, DuVine’s founder gave Tom Coppock, Italian Tour Manager and Tommy Pace, French Tour Guide a $40 budget and asked them to go out and find the best wine from the regions that we travel on our bicycle tours in France and bicycle tours in Italy and bring them in for a tasting.

Blind tastings are always a lot of fun and consist of lots of interesting terminology like – funky, earthy and mellow, all great wine terms and the favorite “trust the nose!”.

The two wines that were purchased were:

• 2001 Chateau Barde-Haut, St. Emilion, Bordeaux, France
• 2006 Bianco Aldo, Barbaresco, Piemonte, Italy

Both of these wines come from the regions that we run our European bicycle tours and in fact Tommy has ridden by the exact vines that produce the Chateau Barde-Haut.  So, the big question was could Andy correctly guess the wine’s country and region?

You’ll have to watch the video to see what happened.

Related articles

• Bordeaux…more than just a Wine Tour (duvine.com)
• Andy’s Top 10 Wines on 2010 DuVine tours (duvine.com)

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