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twebt 2: this time it’s curious

Brian Clayton — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:00:04 +0000

twebt is back! and this time Curious Wines have kindly agreed to be the suppliers of the mystery wine!

twebt (twitter event, blind tasting) is a wine tasting on twitter. You buy the mystery bottle of wine and at the appropriate time you open it, taste it and we all try to guess what sort of wine it is. It’s not competitive, there’s no prize and it’s for everyone, not just wine buffs. It takes place over an hour or two, so everyone has a chance to taste the wine, and start talking about it with everyone else.

The twebt itself will take place at about 8:00 pm Sunday the 31st January. You can buy the mystery bottle from Curious Wines either in-store in Bandon, or online.
It’ll cost €19 shipped to anywhere in Ireland.
You need a twitter account, and then you need to follow me – @brianclayton,Kevin Crowley, the lads at Curious Wines and everyone who signs up below. you then follow the #twebt hashtag and have fun!

taking part so far we have (at least):

judges and imparters of information will of course be Curious Wines

We did this last November with a bottle from Bubble Brothers and it worked really well.

Huge thanks to the gents at Curious Wines and Kevin from Fenn’s Quay

We’ll hope do this again in a couple of months – we’re eyeing up Karwig Wines for the next one!

twitter blind tasting

Brian Clayton — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:16:09 +0000

This Sunday, I’m going to take part in a blind tasting of a mystery bottle of wine, in the virtual company of some Cork (and now Galway) twitter-ers. Our plan is simple. We all open the bottle at about the same time, taste it, describe it as best we can, and then make wild claims about its origins, hopefully to howls of derision and claims of cheating.

The good people of Bubble Brothers have prepared a suitable bottle, wrapping or otherwise anonymising it to preserve the mystery.

So far, the participants in this event are

We’d love it if some more people joined in. All you need is to go to one of BubbleBrothers shops, either in the Marina or the English Market. Explain that you want the bottle for the “twitter blind tasting”. They may look at you strangely but they will know what you’re talking about The bottle will cost less than €15 euro. You’ll need a twitter account, follow everyone on the list above and watch for the hashtag.

The time and the hashtag are TBC.

if you’ve any questions drop me an email to brian at brianclayton.ie

I’m not entirely sure who’s idea it was, but credit to everyone mentioned above, particularly whoever in BubbleBrothers is getting in early christmas present wrapping practise. Thanks also to Mortons of Galway for bringing Galway in on the act. In the future we hope to try this again, with enough notice that we can arrange a country wide event.