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Passport – CT Wine Trail

The 2010 Passport Season has begun!

2010 is year two of Sophie and Cecelia’s adventures on the CT Wine Trail. The rules are to have a tasting at 16 of the 30 wineries (they’re counting the CT Wine Festival as one of the tastings!). First and second prizes are a trip for two to the south of Spain in the dead of winter. More here.

We’re both graduates of the 5 S’s of Wine Tasting, yet I’m not quite comfortable with the new vocabulary. To me, the wine is still dry or sweet, pleasant (to me) or not, something to buy or not. I am excited that I am now able to smell berries, vanilla, and a couple of other distinct aromas. I don’t say yummy as much. Still, the joy is in the exploration as well as the discovery.

First Excursion – weekend of May 16 and 16, 2010:

It’s all good!

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Passport 2009

This page contains the chronological collection of links to the posts of Sophie and Cecelia’s adventures tasting their way through Connecticut wineries. (2009)

Bear in mind as you read these posts that neither of us is a professional wine taster and are learning the  terminology on the fly. Please don’t think less of a wine because we describe it as yummy instead of using some eloquent vocabulary.

The setup: Passport to Connecticut Farm Wineries
How it works: In a nutshell, visit 14 of the 20-some-odd Connecticut wineries, get your Passport stamped at each one, submit the Passport to enter the contest.

June 28, 2009: DiGrazia & McLaughlin

July 12, 2009: Land of Nod

August 1, 2009: Miranda, Sunset Meadow, & Haight-Brown

August 29, 2009: Gouveia, Priam, & Heritage Trail

August 30, 2009: Rosedale, Jerram, & Connecticut Valley

September 26, 2009: Hopkins & Jones

October 17, 2009: Return to McLaughlin to submit Passports

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Visited Wineries:

That’s 14!

An interesting discovery: many of these wines taste different later, once you get them home and out of the close proximity of the other wines at the tasting. I reserve the right to update some of my original posts with my new taste-feelings about particular wines.