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September 08, 2009

The Red Pill

Finally I have experienced my first virtual wine tasting.

I was asked to do it through Twitter and the Taste Live interface. No, the Internet cannot yet pipe through streams of wine together with data, more's the pity, but I was posted three bottles via snail mail to sample with strict instructions as to when to open/decant them.

I had a leg of lamb in the oven which was not going to be ready for the tasting, and as there were no palate cleansers in the house, I had to make do with some stale scones left over from the weekend. So there I am, three glasses, three bottles, three stale scones and a computer. Kind of weird. Yes, I did have a soiree planned, but working week excuses left me all alone.

Robert McIntosh was our ringmaster who has a great wine blog called Wine Conversation.

On your marks.....and we were off.

A lubricating cocktail of slurps and the tweets began unfolding. My main gripe was the delay from tweet to display of the text, so it was hard to keep track of your message and any feedback from it. This may be the Taste Live interface, my rather inadequate Internet connection, Twitter itself (which seems to run like a blocked drain at times), or indeed all of the above.

Instant messaging services (MSN, Yahoo,Google et al.) to me seem slicker, quicker and certainly more private than Twitter, but Twitter seems to fill a global generic convenience gap none the less, and joins us all together very publicly under one very leaky roof (with just 140 tiles).

Before I knew it there was quite a party going on (I was living vicariously through other people's dinner parties, pretending to be a virtual guest at various tables). Sounding sad already, I know, but much like I had just taken the red pill from Morpheus, the real world around me dissolved in a Matrix like fashion with the relentless combination of the alcohol, tweets and attached video links.

The limitation of the tweet length made tasting notes a challenge. In fact a recent report says that this could be gradually eroding our working memory. Unlike my scones, big lumps of indigestible text are ultimately better for us, but the short snappy effect certainly brings pace to the tasting.

The tasting itself was of biodynamic wine courtesy of Berry Bros & Rudd.

I will try and put up some notes on my tasting section soon, but the link above gives a good overview in the meantime.

All in all it was a good experience, slightly 'other' but nice to have peoples live views on wine. It could become addictive.

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