Wine Fictions

The other day a friend has invited me for an online wine tasting that he was organizing. Theme: Portugal. I have to confess that at first I was a bit sceptical about how you could organize such a thing and how your personal perception and enjoyment of it could be.  About the organization I have to confess that it was with a sort of childish joy that I have given the bottle I have selected for the tasting and half an hour later got 12 small bottles properly numbered. This excitement kept on growing till the beginning of the tasting.  From the twelve participants I knew only three but that was not a problem as we soon got to the purpose of the evening, discussing in a rather passionate way the wines that we were coming across. None of the participants, except the organizer, knew which wines we were trying, giving it a very similar feeling of a blind tasting. From the beginning it became clear that most of the participants did not really have too much experience with Portuguese w...