WMT (Unofficial) Strawberry Coastal White Wine Competition

[dangerdave]

No fair, Jim! Worldly wine not allowed! Keep the lid on it!

I laid a two foot hunk of 4x4 on top of mine to keep the lid on!

 

[jswordy]

No fair, Jim! Worldly wine not allowed! Keep the lid on it!

I laid a two foot hunk of 4x4 on top of mine to keep the lid on!

Oh, my wine's not putting on any airs after its travels. It basically just knocked everybody over there stoned drunk to where they were hugging and saying, 'You knooow I always loved ya, budddddddy!" and that's how the deal got done. It just got sanitized for the media version. REALLY!

BTW: Still waiting for pix from the other so-called "competitors."

 

[Dend78]

We are discussing two judges behind the scenes. We have to ask them before we mention names.

Just saying, I'm out for sending bottles to everyone involved. My wine trading costs me an average of $16 a bottle shipped, and then I sometimes don't even get a bottle back in return, so that would be $160 for 10 contestants. We can make side deals to trade bottles if we want, but making that a requirement would be cost-prohibitive for me.

never a requirement just a thought so we could see how everyone's turned out, for sure though 16 per bottle gets a lil pricey.

thats what i was thinking about the monthly thing, whoever would want in could jump in, you set a few requirements for all to follow and set up a couple of judges and whoever wants in can get in no obligation just for a lil fun competition. for me i need wine ppl to try my wine, backwoods boys that try it like it but we will drink most anything

 

[jswordy]

Remember folks, these are the only rules set forth by the King of Goofy Wines for this contest:

Unofficial Friendly Rules (more like guidelines):

1) Must use the aforementioned Wine Expert Vintner's Reserve Coastal White (White Burgundy Style) Wine Kit.

2) Must use strawberries.

 

[jswordy]

for me i need wine ppl to try my wine, backwoods boys that try it like it but we will drink most anything

Yep, and that's where we're different cuz I don't give a – ahem, hoot.

 

[saramc]

Alright...I am in! I think we need to keep judges names anonymous until it is time to ship.

Maybe see if WE would be interested in being one of the judges?

Sara

 

[Kraffty]

This contest seems to be getting rolling pretty naturally, I'm game for trading with as many as want to volunteer to join in at the end of this. I want unbiased thoughts on my attempts AND I'd really like to taste what other's home mades taste like in comparison. I started at 1.082 and dropped to 1.000 in 3 days. One bucket looked like cream of tomato soup and the other smaller bucket (with secret ingredients) was still bright red. I added another 3 lbs of juiced strawberries to the combined buckets and pulled the pulp bag out and locked it down. Hope this "Award Winning Strawberry Wine" tastes really good because the batch has grown to almost 8 gallons. Going to have to wait till saturday to move to secondary - OH DARN, gotta bottle 12 gallons of coastal red first to clear up some carboys. I also found a bottle company 6 miles from my office and bought 15 cases of new bottles at .68 per bottle. Seems like pretty good pricing and I can will call for a couple of bucks of gas.

 

[Kraffty]

saramc, the WE connection is a great idea, but, if not them, maybe Midwest Supplies would be interested, they seem like a great group of guys and they offered the BOGO to begin with, might even offer a gift certificate if asked. I'd be glad to contact them or maybe an admistrator for WMT would like to do it.

 

[Dend78]

just received this string of text messages from my wife

wife - "So im laying in the family room and start smelling something, yeah that would be your wine that exploded"

me - Really? was it bad?

wife - No, could be worse but its still annoying

wife - i take it back its pretty bad all over the floor and the stuff that was near it on the floor


first official blow off not even 48hrs into it! i sat the lid on there and due to lack of space i had to set my carboy of blackberry on top of it. blackberry goes in bottles tonight!

 

[dangerdave]

Ok, reviewing the thread, it looks like so far we have...unofficially..

Kraffty
dangerdave
Dend78
suecasa
jswordy
LoneTreeFarms
Sammyk
saramc

Did I miss anyone? Wow! I figured we'd only get a few participants. What a nice turnout!

As a footnote, everyone feel free withdraw from the contest for whatever reason at any time, no questions asked. This is all for the fun of it, after all!

 

[Dend78]

that is an awesome turn out since this wasn't advertised or announced just picked up from other threads

 

[jswordy]

...it looks like so far we have...unofficially...

Wait - there's an OFFICIAL???

 

[Dend78]

Wait - there's an OFFICIAL???

Oficially:

Dangerdave
loser #1
loser #2
loser #3
loser #4
loser #5
loser #6
loser #7
loser #8



should we start to question if Dave wants us all to send the wine to his house? lol

 

[dangerdave]

Dend, you are having entirely toooooo much fun with this! Fine! I accept! Send me your wine!

 

[dangerdave]

We have one dedictaed judge on board! Judge's names will not be disclosed until we get to shipping time---at the end of September---for obvious reasons.

Someone suggested we do this every month, but I think that may be overdoing it. I would suggest a quarterly competition---October, January, April, July---if this goes well. This was a rather impromptu contest and the wine was chosen haphazardly based on a unique BOGO sale. We'll have to decide how to choose what wine to make each quarter if this is to be an ongoing event.

What do the rest of you think?

 

[pjd]

Ok If one could find a coastal white, is the competition still open?

 

[Kraffty]

pjd, of course, you just have to follow the two rules, go for it!
Mike

 

[Sammyk]

October would be better because many are still trying to find kits. I won't even get mine started until late next week.

 

[Runningwolf]

Arne, I'll never beat Dave. Never.

He is the KING of Goofy Wines!

King of Goofy!

 

[Boatboy24]

Get a sponsor (or potential sponsor) to offer a great price on a particular kit once a quarter. Could be a WMT member only special. That will be the competition kit of the quarter. Those who want to compete will buy. And those who don't want to compete, but have been curious about that kit/style will buy.