Red wine is for drinking, not keeping at the bottom of the wine rack for that special occasion. Dead Reds Wine Group has been formed to celebrate the dead reds in our cellar. We’d like to thank them for their wonderful contribution into our lives. So crack open that red, give it a tasting and then share the news with the rest of us.
The Dead Reds Wine Group was formed to celebrate and send off, in appropriate style, older wines from our cellars. These are wines we may have been keeping for that special occasion… but we’ve perhaps now also kept a little too long? These are wines that are ten years or older and may have travelled a far bumpier harder road than others. Such wine that might still be a corker, or just simply “corked”?
The groups began on the eve of a special dinner party, which was to boast a Penfolds Grange, the challenge was set to find a wine that could match such a pedigree. Alas, all the “special” old wines in the cellar were too old to risk. And that’s when the seed was planted for a special night dedicated to brave wine tasting – to boldly drink what should have already been boldly drunk! The idea was shared on Facebook and the Dead Reds Wine Group now has over 400 members with quarterly events, called “Wakes”.
These events encourage you to bring along such a bottle to share with fellow wine hoarders for an adventurous evening of wine tasting. Some turn out sublime, some vinegar. But that’s what the night is all about. Wakes are evenings of sensory highs and lows, animated conversation and a lot of laughs.
The next wine event will be held this Friday July 2, at Bang & Olufsen, 25 Grenfell Street, Adelaide, Australia. The event will run from 6.30pm to 8.30pm.
Details are as follows:
• Complimentary glass on arrival
• $20 entry fee
• Everyone encouraged to enter a bottle
• Bottles entered for judging encounter a $10 entry fee
• Bottles entered must be 10yrs or older
• All are encouraged to help with judging
• No responsibility is accepted for poor tastings whatsoever
• All proceeds after expenses are donated to the Heart Foundation
For more information check out their Facebook page here.
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