Barrel Tasting: Predicting the Future!

The Wine Road's Barrel Tasting weekends are coming up!  Two weekends (Mar 5/6 & 12/13) are offered for the wine enthusiast to sample wine from the barrel.  Some wineries offer "futures" these weekends.

Barrel tasting is a good experience to better understand the stages that wine goes thru before it gets to your table.  The barrels are using to both impart their own flavors and to age the wine before bottling.  The winemaker spends a lot of time doing samples to mark the progress of the wine, and now you can give it a try.

When you get a chance to purchase future bottling of these wines, you can usually save some cash off the release price.  It does take practice to discern the "future" quality of the wine.  It's all part of the fun!!