Duel of tasting techniques
- Thread starter Oswaldo Costa
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Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
Price's preliminary calisthenics are a hoot - he must have had fun researching the role.
Joel Stewart
Joel Stewart
Peter Lorre is really something else in this scene...but was there really a tasting thing like Vincent was using? That is one bizarre little unit.
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
It's a taste-vin. Levi uses it all the time.
Jay Miller
Jay Miller
Delightful.
Peter Creasey
Peter Creasey
Joel, There is an international organization named La Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin with sous commanderies all over the world.
Lots of history and traditions!
. . . . . . Pete
Jonathan Loesberg
Jonathan Loesberg
And Peter Lorre was an alcoholic and a drug addict.
Bill Lundstrom
Bill Lundstrom
i have a cookbook he and his wife wrote that was published in 1965.
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
The taste-vin is also part of the Louis/Dressner logo.
Joel Stewart
Joel Stewart
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
It's a taste-vin. Levi uses it all the time.
Interesting. I like the graphic too. So the golfball dimples increase surface area/more quickly aerate the wine...or are those little windows to gauge color?
chaad thomas
chaad thomas
As I understand it, the dimples are for assessing clarity and color.
Because I guess asking the question, "What to get a wine guy for a gift" often results in tastevins, I have 3 now, but the only appreciably distinctive one, and my favorite, has a silver 1839 5 franc coin brazed in the bottom:
One could actually get into collecting these, as they're silver (usually) and the hallmarking lets you know producer and general time period of production.
Because I guess asking the question, "What to get a wine guy for a gift" often results in tastevins, I have 3 now, but the only appreciably distinctive one, and my favorite, has a silver 1839 5 franc coin brazed in the bottom:
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
originally posted by Joel Stewart:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
It's a taste-vin. Levi uses it all the time.
Interesting. I like the graphic too. So the golfball dimples increase surface area/more quickly aerate the wine...or are those little windows to gauge color?
I'd always been told that the dimples help reflect light up through the wine; presumably more important in the dim candle-lit cellars of yore.
Peter Creasey
Peter Creasey
Chaad, I don't collect tastevins but I did manage to find an antique pure silver one that I am rather proud of.
. . . . . . Pete
Joel Stewart
Joel Stewart
Well the clip Oswaldo graced our presence with does show a somewhat timid candle holder trying to illuminate the wine poured into Vincent's glass, but it's so fleeting as to seem meaningless. Levi, where are you?