Wednesday, February 20, 2013

How long can a wine last? Wine Fan Mark Lagan finds out!

Who here hasn't used the phrase: "ah, I'd better finish the bottle, don't want it going to waste and it certainly won't last...". Myth? Or Busted!

Mark Lagan undertook to take one for the team. Put his body and liver on the line to test out just how long a wine would last. Check out Mark's Real Time Wine profile here.

The wine? MMX Blackwater Noir. An SMG blend (shiraz, that mouvedre stuff and grenache).

Mark says:

My methodology was as follows.

Day 1 open wine. Pour about 80 mls through wine shower into glass. Gave it a shake with my hand over the top of the glass.  Repeat process 3 times to ensure maximum aeration. The wine shower/filter is in the pic below. I then tasted the wine and recorded my thoughts and comments as per the tweets.

I then stored the wine in the fridge. Day 2 I took wine out fridge. Poured into glass, gave it a good shake and then aerated as per day 1. Tasted and commented. Returned remainder of bottle to fridge.

Day 3 as per day 2 and so on.

And here are the tweets!






Crazy days. Go Mark! We kind of lost track of him at this point. Haze of drip strategy wine tasting? But rumour is he got close to 7 days.

Anyone else want to try some wine experiments and win fame and fortune? And maybe some free liver tablets? :)
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