Airplane Wine

[Thomas]

For each of the past three years I have been asked to join a panel of wine judges for Business Traveler Magazine. The magazine secures various wines from various airlines that serve them.

It is amazing how different the front cabin wines are from the plebian class travelers, but in all, some nice, many bland, but nothing the airlines offer has made the earth rumble for us.

There once was a Chardonnay produced in China and served on the Chinese national airline--can't imagine who could have survived drinking the the stuff.

Today I judge some more. Wish me luck!

[winoweenie]

When I flew a lot they forced me into Tequila Sunrises with the dreck. Be sure to spit. WW [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/eek.gif[/img]

[Innkeeper]

When flying I usually ask for a Rum Bloody Mary. This usually elicits blank stares from under 40 flight attendants. I explain that it is an "old folks" drink, and to just give me a canette of Mr&Mrs T, and a bottlette of white rum.

[quijote]

Have fun on your "wine flight"!

[Kcwhippet]

Wine never seems to taste the same in the air as it does on the ground. We've periodically opened our own bottles in flight, and when we taste the same wine after we land it almost always tastes better. Wines drunk in the plane seem to be flatter. It may have something to do with the pressurization or the bad air affecting our smell and/or taste. Even so, what we bring is generally much, much better than what they're serving.

[ShortWiner]

I once had a relatively decent little Bordeaux on a British Airways flight to Germany. Decent once it warmed up, that is--they'd chilled it pretty good.

[Thomas]

I'm back from the judging. The wines overall were a lot better than in the past, especially the sparklers. I won't know what they were until the Business Traveler Magazine prints the results, but I can say this: someone should make a journey to Australia and burn all the oak barrels, and then make it over to california and pull out the sauvignon blanc vines...

[winoweenie]

As Counsel for the Australian Forest Products Group and the SB Bottlers of Santa Ynex I demand a retraction of your scurrilous, derogatory, and libelous assertation. You'll end up treating derilicts and homeless as a Pro-Bono concillitory judgement......( That's what him do any-whoos, Miss Gladys ? ) Sorry,Go On!.ww

[Thomas]

I will not rest until the last of the oaks are ashes and the SB wines that have no cat pee in their profile are laid to rest in the dustbin of the mundane!