Sunday, September 29, 2013

The Day I Blended My Wine

I buy wine for one and only one reason; Sangria. I am not a wine connoisseur (yet) but I'll take wine when I cannot find any hard liqueur...ok..almost never. I don't understand wines and I cannot tell flavors apart. "It is okey", or "I didn't like it" are the two categories I have for wines. Thus, my expectations for this experiment were very low.
I did not expect to notice any difference.

I listened to these guys and blended a glass 337 Cabernet Sauvignon from Noble Vines. The shot glass has contents right out of the bottle while "aerated wine" went from bottle to magic bullet for 15 seconds to wine glass. Both my wife (who is a non-drinker) and I tasted the samples and we could tell the difference between the two.
Well, the difference was significant; even for us. The wine became much smoother and well, more "blended". To me, it tasted like dead wine; like something out of a bottle opened 15 days ago and left open in the pantry.

In my second trial, I blended it for just 5 seconds. But when I opened the mixer, I could hear the wine die out in form of bubbles. It was again, a dead wine.

What a horrible thing to do. Let the two glasses I blended not die in vain. Let this be a lesson to not to blend any wine from this point forward.

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