It is upon us. Hands down, the most exciting time in sports – March Madness and the NCAA tournament. For the love of wine and the love of the game and the love of everything that is deserved, we have put together a March Madness Blind Wine Tasting Face-Off – a chance to pit a number of quality yet inexpensive wines against each other to see who comes out on top, as decided by YOU, Wine Bloggerville, Twitterville, and anyone else that stumbles up on our blog.
The Goal
If you are a person, you’ll likely be watching the tournament and drinking in celebration or to ease your mind from the tough loss. Now you have another reason! Our goal is to accumulate the votes of numerous wine lovers conducting blind tasting face-offs on popular, inexpensive, but highly-rated wines. The wines range from $10 per bottle to $30 per bottle, so it will be interesting to see who comes out on top! No peeking, Slick!
Here’s how it will go down:
1. Choose any one or multiple match-ups that interest you and go out and buy the wine at your local wine shop. There are Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Grigio, and Riesling face-offs. All of these wines are widely distributed and available. Or buy the wine through Wine.com by visiting the wine information page on WineMcGee.
2. Have your wife, mom, brother, girlfriend, or guy on the street prepare a blind tasting for you.
3. Vote on your favorite of the two wines by posting your comments on this blog posting. Or, if you are a wine blogger, you could create a posting on your own blog about which you liked better and tell us about it (post a comment with a link to your posting or email michael.siegler@winemcgee.com). Vote for the first round match-ups anytime between now and March 18th. The winners of the first round with then go against each other in another round of voting. Check out the bracket for the full details and schedule.
Round One Face-Offs
