Prime @UniofOxford-affiliated wine-tasting society aimed at wine education through blind tasting. Not strictly restricted to wines - other beverages included!
University of Oxford
Joined August 2013
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What should we do tonight? Oh, right, listen to fellow Oxonian @JeremySeysses speak on Burgundy and reminisce about one of the greatest ever evenings @OUblindtasting 67pallmall.com/events/thursd…
The term card for Hilary 2020 is here! We hope to see you at some of the fabulous tastings this term!
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Announcing our Michaelmas 2019 term card! Sign up for our newsletters here to receive information on how to register for tastings: tinyurl.com/oubts2019
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Final @LBBCup practice at @OUblindtasting, this one with our newest alumnus-turned-MW @ThomasLParker - wonderfully insightful as always! -D
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Fabulous tasting of my favourite New World Chardonnays with the 4th Generation from @KumeuRiverWines and @BoxfordWine at @OUblindtasting - their Cremant and SB were the surprise discoveries of the night (great complexity and restraint respectively), rest purely for pleasure. -D
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The easiest wine to identify in tonight’s blind tasting @OUblindtasting: nothing else smells quite like @chateaumusar and it was the most popular tonight by the group with about a quarter calling it their favourite! Alas, guessed it a year off, thought it 2010. Lovely flight! -D – at Oxford, England
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Last night’s @OUblindtasting with @Tariq_Khoyratty featured (for us) the best value Rioja on the UK market. @TheWineSociety Exhibition Reserva by @LaRiojaAltaSA has all the coconut, leather, dried strawberries you’d want, but with plenty of acidity/tannin/concentration/elegance!
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Another instance where work overlaps with wine tasting 😋 Thanks to @OUblindtasting members for being guinea pigs in trying to tell blends from single varietals. Glad to feature FLX wines in an Australian wine journal 😉 @FLXWineCountry @FLXwine @JournalGrape -J – at York, England
Our new @xmodal paper on blending and wine complexity has just been published in the Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research! Thanks to @DrFrankWine for the collaboration! See it at
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Our research on blind wine tasting training was just published in the Journal of Wine Economics! bit.ly/2RKGZVV For those of you with good memories, it was mentioned by @JancisRobinson in her writeup here bit.ly/2MxW06o @wineecon @FuflunsPW @DanRosenheck
Thank you for coming, Lee. Not just for the anecdotes and the jokes, but for the passion for and understanding of those often ignored parts of the wine world as well!
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Tonight’s tasting at @OUblindtasting with @WineMan147 - Argentina&Chile. Entertaining as usual! -D
Proud to have been subjects of this research paper!
Our research on blind wine tasting training was just published in the Journal of Wine Economics! bit.ly/2RKGZVV For those of you with good memories, it was mentioned by @JancisRobinson in her writeup here bit.ly/2MxW06o @wineecon @FuflunsPW @DanRosenheck
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The Chinese culinary imagination never ceases to amaze: onion wine! That’s right, onion + red wine! The label claims that the onion and wine are in “perfect harmony” and that it would deliver an “unforgettable experience for the tastebuds”. I bet the latter is true 😂
Another great night with Domen — students did an awesome job with all the wines shown
And 3/3, my @OUblindtasting masterclass on structure of wine today: 20 people, 14 wines, 3.5h. A tough set of wines, but they managed very well, half never having been to a tasting before! Love to enlighten young minds! Some nice sweets to finish as well :) -D
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Tonight, I taught the last in a series of 6 classes in blind tasting at @OUblindtasting to this group. In just a few weeks, they learned all about drip tests and alcohol burn, lees, oak, and MLF, covering wines from classics like Macon and as out there as (today) Petit Manseng -D
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We go behind the scenes at South Africa's @oldvineproject and how @rosa_kruger @AndreMorgenthal are helping to bring back to life vines aged 35 years plus & giving winemakers the chance to create a whole new category for South African wines the-buyer.net/opinion/south-…
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Burgundy heats up: “In 50 years, I’m convinced that Pinot Noir will no longer be suited to our region,” says Fred Mugnier of Domaine Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier. “It’s a potential catastrophe.” Frightening piece by @timatkin
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