For the most part, these notes are from the Wednesday Group tastings. The most recent three months may be ordered online and therefore will appear if you Search for NOTES using the Search facility at the top of every page (or the button below).

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 Links to THE BLOGS (PRINTER FRIENDLY NOTES) files from:

2008 Archive Tasting Notes   2007 Archive Tasting Notes

2006 Tasting Notes   2005 archive Tasting Notes

  Archive of Tasting 2003 Notes

Archive of 2002 Tasting Notes   2001 Tasting Notes

Who & What is the Wednesday Group?

Every Wednesday a group of dedicated tasters gathers at a private home and tastes, evaluates, and comments on a number of wines brought from Village Corner. These may or may not be in current stock at Village Corner. This group has been gathering for over 25 years for wine, cheese, and Renner bread and provides Dick with valuable and varied opinions which help him keep in touch with non-professional preferences and tastes, cutting through hype and hoopla,  to bring real quality and value for everyone to the wine shelves of Village Corner. Membership in the group is by invitation only and limited to the capacity of the homes of members willing to host the group.

Tastings may be one specific theme or may cover quite a range of wines. There are usually around 18 wines but sometimes there are many more. Wines are presented here in the order they were tasted. Visiting producers often make an appearance at a Wednesday Group session.

We present here Dick's notes from recent tastings of the Wednesday Group. He's made very little attempt to dress up his notes. He scribbles them fast and furious while tasting and then types them into the computer, often without capitalization and with abbreviations galore, but occasionally adding some extra information about the wine region, theme of the tasting, and so on. Several months ago, he began adding some notes from other staff members to give a more rounded picture of the wines. If you can't figure out some abbreviation, email me and I'll get a translation! Scores are on a 20 point scale and typically appear at the end of each wine's notes. A notation of "ns" indicates the wine was not scored. The reason for no score is usually evident in the rest of the notes, usually a corked bottle. (It's not fair to score a wine based on one bad bottle, of course!)

To help you decipher these notes a little better, you should be aware that a / separates descriptions of the nose from descriptions of the taste. Nose elements may or may not be matched with corresponding taste elements, in which case "confirmed" may follow the / mark.

Website readers have asked that I include wine prices in our weekly tasting-note section. As in the New Arrivals and Special Offer sections, these are discounted, sale prices. Purchasers of 12 or more bottles (same or mixed) earn an additional 5% discount.

Sometimes no price appears. This situation applies to trade samples (sometimes barrel samples) for which no price is at hand as I go to press. Nonetheless, please convey your interest in these wines (click on the email address below to send us a message), and we'll inform you of the price when it becomes available.

-Dick Scheer 

 

 

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