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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

The Jelly Belly Vineyard

In keeping with wine is fun and not stuffy Wine X Magazine has set up a fun way to learn about flavours in wine. It is called the Jelly Belly Wine Bar. The idea is to select a few different jelly bean flavours throw them all in your mouth and the will add up to a certain grape flavour.
For example
A French Cabernet Sauvignon is 2 Blackberry + Cherry + Raspberry + Plum + Licorice + Dr. Pepper + Dirt (There really is a dirt flavoured jelly bean).
RP gives this blend a 87 saying it is Broad and Expressive revealing a lot of fruit, but is a bit too sweet.
MR claims that there was not enough Micro-Oxygenation and was left on the vine too long.

The best way to enjoy these beans is to buy a special crystal spoon that places all of the beans in the correct spot on your tongue. There are 240 different spoons, one for each of the different varietals or blends.

If you are trying the Champagne blend I recommend adding Pop Rocks to get a closer mouth feel.

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