Wine Party {Cellar No.8}
Last Friday night we went to a party at our friend’s house. Instead of just hanging out like we normally do we decided to play a little game. Normally I’m not much of a game person but I found this game to be quite fun. Here’s how it goes.
Each couple brings two bottles of wine to the party. One bottle is wrapped completely in foil so you cannot see any part of the label. The point is to not know the name of the wine you are drinking. All the bottles that are wrapped in foil are placed in a row. You can number them, color code them or name them by writing on the foil with a marker. Through out the night everyone has a glass of wine from each bottle. We drank our glasses at the same time so we knew everyone was drinking the same wine at the same time. At the end of the night everyone votes on their favorite bottle of wine. We wrote our vote on paper and the host tallied up the votes. Whoever brought the bottle of wine with the most votes, wins! The winner then gets to take home all the second bottles of wine which were not covered in foil.
This was our first time participating in a game like this. We had fun and I won! The wine I brought to the party got the most votes. The wine I brought to the party was Cellar No. 8 Cabernet Sauvignon which I bought at Heinens for $9.99. It is definitely one of my favorite wines lately.
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Burgundy Wine“The wines from Bourgogne boast a longer history than any others.”
Here are some key dates in the long winegrowing history of Bourgogne, listed in chronological order.
312: Eumenes’ Discourses: oldest known documented reference.
1115: Clos de Vougeot Château built by monks from Cîteaux.
August 6, 1395: Duke Philip the Bold (1342-1404) publishes ordinance governing wine quality in Bourgogne.
1416: Edict of King Charles VI setting the boundaries of Bourgogne as a wine producing area (from Sens to Mâcon).
November 11, 1719: Creation of the oldest mutual assistance organisation, the "Société de Saint Vincent" in Volnay.
1720: Champy, Bourgogne's oldest merchant company was founded in Beaune and is still in business today.
1728: The first book devoted to the wines from Bourgogne, written by Father Claude Arnoux, is published in London.
July 18, 1760: Prince Conti (1717-1776) acquires the "Domaine de La Romanée", which now bears his name.
1789: French Revolution. Church-owned vineyards confiscated and auctioned off as national property.
October 17, 1847: King Louis-Philippe grants the village of Gevrey the right to add its name to its most famous cru – Chambertin. Other villages were quick to follow suit.
1851: First auction of wines grown on the Hospices de Beaune estate.
1861: First classification of wines (of the Côte d'Or) by Beaune's Agricultural Committee.
June 15, 1875: Phylloxera first detected in Bourgogne (at Mancey, Saône-et-Loire).
1900: Creation of the Beaune Oenological Station. April 30, 1923: Founding of La Chablisienne, Bourgogne's first cooperative winery.
April 29, 1930: A ruling handed down by the Dijon civil courts legally defines to the boundaries of wine-growing Bourgogne (administrative regions of Yonne, Côte-d’Or, and Saône-et-Loire, plus the Villefranche-sur-Saône area in the Rhône).
December 8, 1936: Morey-Saint-Denis becomes the first AOC in Bourgogne.
October 14, 1943: Creation of Premier Cru appellation category.
October 17, 1975: Crémant de Bourgogne attains AOC status.
Jully 17, 2006: Creation of Bourgogne's 100th appellation: “Bourgogne Tonnerre”.
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