Dinner Quadro on the 27th of February 2024

The February session, selected by Daniel and Garreth, also targeted the new world, this time Australia and all new to me and so quite interesting and shows the efforts they made to seek wines for Qatra.  We started off with a sparkling champagne type blend from Tasmania, an interesting break from French, Italian and Spanish bubbly. 

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With the reds I was divided as wine B, the Penfolds, had in my opinion the most prominent and enjoyable nose while Wine C, the Henschke, had the greatest balance, complexity and finish on the palate (again in my opinion).

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I was clearly in the minority this time as the aggregate vote gave a clear first place to the Wolf Blass – wine D, which also happened to be the oldest wine.  Usually, the club tends to favour the younger ones but not this time.

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What was certain was that they all went well with the menu proposed by Quadro’s chef and although it was not a high food score – there were some inconsistencies in the main course – the service was as expected for a Qatra event.

The Wolf Blass, as the report states, is regularly one of the highest awarded wines in Australia and this 2012 vintage was no exception.  At €79, one needs to be sure that it can deliver more than other wines with equally good similar characteristics before purchasing it.  That is one of the advantages of our blind tasting system, we can decide if we like the wine and what we would be prepared to pay for it before being influenced by an important name and great marketing.