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THE BEST BANG FOR THE BUCK The 4th Annual Cheap Wine Tasting, Miami, Florida By Simone Zarmati Diament
O
ne of the many messages I got last week
was from Mike Bittel of Sunset Corners Fine Wines & Spirits, a store renowned for
its high-end fine boutique wines.It intrigued me because Mike's messages are usually about rare and expensive wines.
This one was about a "Cheap Wine Tasting," actually about The 4th annual Cheap Wine
Tasting, an event sponsored by a "group of friends and wine lovers who are committed
to finding the best bang for the buck!" read the message.This
year, the tasting took place at Emme and Etienne Pedinielli's home. The Corsican-born
an entrepreneur who has lived and worked for four decades in the US, is now retired
and dedicates a healthy amount of his time to good wine.It
all started four years ago when Emme Pedinielli helped volunteers at the Biltmore
Wine Festival Great Wine Auction in benefit of United Way. "We tasted those expensive
wines, sometime over-priced, that we would never be able to buy, and so we decided to
gather with our friends and find cheap good wines that we could drink every day,"
explained her husband Etienne.
"The rules are pretty simple," says Emme about the group of 20. "We each bring a
bottle - only red wine - to taste and a bottle to drink with dinner. It must retail
between $5 and $15, and must have been purchased within seven days of the tasting."
But the rules are so strict that a sales receipt must be shown at time of entry, which,
if it doesn't match the purchase, might disqualify the participant. The score card
gives points: the cheaper the wine, the bigger the point, and the winner gets to keep
the Cheap Wine Trophy in their home for one year.
"It's a fun evening," writes Bittel, "complete with tasting sheets, computer analysis,
a trophy, much teasing and good cheer! I for one, went to the tasting, with hopes that
I might make some new discovery, a great inexpensive wine that I was unfamiliar with."
Some of the wines were so good that Bittel bought them for the store.Here is a list of the wines at the Cheap Wine Tasting 2004 (provided by The Board of Directors of The Annual Cheap Wine Tasting):
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