Your Tasting Notes

[dananne]

I use a spreadsheet program to keep track of the wines I drink and ones I have on hand. I list producer, varietal/name (including vineyard, if applicable), region, vintage, location purchased, and cost. I use an asteric (sp?) to indicate wines I have in stock, and I remove it when I drink the wine. If I have more than one bottle, I note how many I have, then reduce the number as appropriate. If the wine needs to age a bit, I'll include my guestimate on that, too. My TNs (which I call "Comments"), then, follow the above info. Sometimes they are very simple -- my TN for Banfi's Brachetto d'Acqui Rose Regale reads "Yummy! Yummy! Yummy!" and my TN for a black muscat from Wiebel reads "A little medicine-like (cough)." Wines I really feel strongly about I'll elaborate on in greater depth. Only pretty recently have I started to really post TNs here, so I'll refer to them on the board as IK does.

At times, I'll include ratings for the wines in the "Comments" section. I don't do this for any reason other than to try and find out which reviewer's palate I tend to agree with, and which ones I don't (for instance, I've found that I agree with Tanzer more often than with Parker).

[This message has been edited by dananne (edited 05-17-2003).]