Editor’s Note: While Carl is busy trying to get the wine bar up and running, we’ve asked Tom Welsh, the new manager of the 530 Wine Bar, to fill in for this week’s blog. I’m pleased to be back contributing a blog entry to TiedemannOnWines.com. As with my first opportunity to do so, I’m sharing some of the wine-related experiences I had on a recent trip to France. The trip was planned around an annual tasting event in Bordeaux of the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux, an organization…
Bordeaux, French wines, Tom Welsh, wine tasting
Emilie and I are very excited to announce that the 530 Wine Bar is coming along very well and is only weeks away from opening. We don’t know the exact date, as there are a number of things to be delivered…
530 Wine Bar, Elkhart, wine bar, wine tasting
If you are going to be a wine drinker, you need to enjoy it. This should be pretty simple to do…well, maybe. It goes a little beyond open, pour, sip and enjoy. Wine tasting has a few critical steps which we are going to discuss here. Mastering these steps helps you understand what’s in your glass and helps you enjoy your wine more…
appearance of wine, finish, length, phases of wine tasting, wine tasting
It’s been a couple weeks since I reported to you on our current project, the 530 Wine Bar, located next to our LEX 530 Event Center in Elkhart. I believe we are about a month behind our original construction schedule – all due to the shortages of building materials and the overload of work our subcontractors are doing…
530 Wine Bar, Elkhart wine bar, wine tasting
Over the last few months my team has been tasting a lot of wines with many distributors. Sometimes we will do two tastings a day looking for wines to have at our wine dinners, to offer as our 530 Select monthly wines or to find wines for the new wine bar’s wine list…
acidity, alcohol, overall impression, sight, smell, sweetness, tannin, taste, tasting versus drinking wine, wine tasting