Can A Sommelier Guess The Red Wine - Without Any Clues?

Did YOU get the answer right?! Let me know in the comments!

I recently started on wines and I’m just happy to see him tasting wines

When are you visiting Argentina? You've already gone to Chile, why not Argentina? I really prefer it to Chile although Chilean wines are delicious.

Gutsy my friend. Blind tastings are tough.

We always love watching these and seeing how you deduce what wine it is! It is amazing and inspiring how you figure it out! Thanks for making such fun and informative videos!

Vince! Good job mate.
A question. My girlfriend and I are big fans of the channel from Perth AU. We recently tried a Margret River wine (a local Cab Sav) and on the nose and on the palate it smelt of like alcohol? And very kind of "fuel like". It was 14.4%. It also looked like a cab franc, it was more brick colour than typical purple fruit. My questions:
1. We have another 14.5% from Chile. A Carmenere from Montes which we are saving. What does this mean for that wine, given we didn't like the 14.4 & found it too high? Does it mean the Carménère will also be too much for us?
2. Also what influences the alcohol level? We have a late harvest from Undurraga which is 13.8% so it can't be the sugar? Or can it?
3. Why did it look like a Cab franc lol

Thanks Vince

Really learning tons from these blind tasting sessions so please keep them coming!

Just came acroos this great channel yesterday. I got my French relatives, wife's father and brother in law to do a blind tasting of wines...very funny ...I must find the footage and post it. Really enjoyed the show in Bordeaux and look forward to watching more....move to France from UK with my French wife may be on again!

When I saw the color and heard your description, especially saying that pretty much everything was "medium", I guessed Merlot. You should taste this again when it is about 8-9 years old. Trust me.

Old vs new world is usually easy to find out.

Impressive!

Nice!

Well done! Fun video, I really enjoy this format/blind.

Very fun.

Love the video as usual. I have a question for you. I've done some blind tastings with some wines from France from 2022 which was an extremely hot year. Is climate change changing the classic signs of styles in blind tastings? I completely missed on some wines from 2022 in blind tastings because they felt super ripe and full bodied despite coming from cool regions

I always associate pencil shavings with cab franc and as he didn't mention that it ruled that out for me

I’m impressed

I would have guessed Cab Franc, but only because I'm not too familiar with Carmenere. Sounds like I should fix that!

Well done!!

Nice process of elimination. Well done. As to your use of the terms "complexity" and later "structure", my observation of sommeliers is that they treat these as separate things.
In my thinking they are related as follows: when you discuss the notes you smell and taste both in the case of the sliders and the icons used to represent notes, then you basically give an indication of complexity. IIRC this was implied in the video too.
To me, structure then is about how these elements listed under "complexity" rank. You can have tannins but they can be too much and end up too high in the structure of elements in complexity. Acidity can be too high, or so low that you have a hard time to perceive it.
In that way, they are different sides of the same coin.

I have noticed that temperature and how much air/oxygen a wine was exposed to after opening the bottle make a big difference. How do you do that - decide on it?
I sometimes want to be able to enjoy a bottle of wine over a coupe of days. Some wines can handle that, some can't. Some are better the second or third day, some worse.

Another thing is the shape of the glass. The glass in the video is rather narrow towards the nose and higher ABV wines may tend to give only evaporated alcohol in the nose, especially when the win is a bit warmer. How do you decide on that aspect in preparation of the blind tasting?

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I guessed Nebbiolo and then Tempranillo and yeah, you moved past those two pretty quickly LOL

I love guessing along to this series.

Nicely done!

Love your work, just a constructive detail, in grapes...

Carménère (kaar·muh·nehr) American Pronunciation

Carmenère is a wine grape variety that originates from Bordeaux, France. The Romans especially adored this wine. The name Carmenère comes from the word carmin, which means crimson, an ode to the reddish shade the leaves of the vine turn during autumn.

You’re a beast .

When you said you couldn't decipher between old and new world, i saw carmenere happening.

I'd would have included for sure tempranill on the list. For the structure, red to black fruit and some oak. Not all tempranillos are super whiskylactin-oak forward.

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Since when amarone is a grape variety?

Amazing work!

Way to go Vince

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Amarone is not a grape.