The taste of place. Terroir. The idea that wine can express where it’s from in the glass. It’s one of the most romantic concepts in wine — but is it real? Can you actually taste it?
We grabbed six wines from six of the world’s most iconic regions, poured them blind, and put three tasters to the test. No labels. No clues. Just the glass.
The lineup:
→ A champagne that made all three of us rethink our loyalties
→ A German Riesling that split the room on price by over $100
→ A white Burgundy so neutral it had us checking for cork taint
→ A red that had us torn between Burgundy, Tuscany, Sicily and Etna
→ A Bordeaux that everyone got right — but nobody expected to be this elegant
→ A wine that one person called Barossa Shiraz, another called Tempranillo from Spain, and somehow they were both making sense
Some we nailed. Some fooled all three of us. One wine sparked a genuine argument about whether it was faulty or just French. For each wine we guess the region, call a price, and say how many bottles we’d buy — before the reveal. You’ll see where confidence pays off and where it falls apart.This is what blind tasting actually looks like. Not performance. Not showing off. Just three people trying to figure out what’s in the glass using nothing but their senses — and finding out where the gaps in their knowledge really are.Think you can do better? Pause before each reveal and make your own call.
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00:00 – Introduction!
00:52 – NV Champagne Taittinger Brut Reserve
02:17 – 2022 Joh Jos Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese
04:03 – 2023 Domaine Vincent Dancer Bourgogne Blanc
05:29 – 2020 G.D Vajra Barolo Albe
06:27 – 2021 Bodegas Exopto Rioja El Espinal de Exopto
07:46 – 2020 John Duval Eligo Shiraz
09:08 – Group Chat!
17:17 – Wine Of The Week!

6 Comments
someone is failing at that WSET exam😅
The relationship between good Rioja and Barossa Shiraz is that wonderful, underlying, dirty, earthy minerality that is so, so intense and distinctive of the terrior in both regions. Both are utterly awesome. And yeah I've studied the geological maps of both regions to see the different underlying strata, but that ferric minerality is a giveaway.
Love your work lads. Maybe the line up was slightly wrong. maybe put the chablis before the spätlese. Chablis is such a classy wine – and btw, Aldi has a really good one in at the moment – actually from Beaune !! for $12.99 !!!!
I love your blinds.
really hope you dont let simon celebrate his Aussie citizenship with champagne instead of a bottle of rumball and a breakfast roll
Albe has always tasted too lean for me and for a lot of my former customers too… GD Vajra does fab work though, so never quite understood that bottling especially given the high price. Much better value can be found elsewhere.
lol Simon is cracking me up. Talks about how unoffensive the Champagne is then during the reveals goes full ape shit for it. 😂