Wine Club Presidents review three bottles of wine, spend fifty dollars
Jon Adler and Healy Jones, WG'07
Issue date: 9/18/06 Section: Perspectives
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One of the most important aspects to business school is learning… learning about management, microeconomics and discounted cash flow. In particular, now that you've left your high-paying job, it's time to learn how to micro-manage your now discounted cash flow. But can you still enjoy wine without an expense account? Jon Adler and Healy Jones, as Co-Presidents of the Wharton Wine Club, are here to tell you, YES! But, now that you're drinking on your own dime, you'd better make the right choice the first time. So, we have sacrificed an evening to taste a few wines and tell you a little bit about them.
For those of you who haven't experienced a Philly winter before, you ought to get outside and take advantage of the nice weather while it lasts. With few warm days left this summer, it makes sense to enjoy some refreshing white wines (never mind the fact that we're tasting these on a rainy, cold evening.) We visited the local Pennsylvania State Wine & Sprits store at 1913 Chestnut Street and picked out a few domestic whites that you ought to be able to find in both stores and restaurants, at price levels appropriate for starving students.
Chateau Ste Michelle is a respected producer from Washington State, a state with over 100 wineries. Indeed, a Johannisberg Riesling 1972 from Chateau Ste Michelle set Washington State wine on the road to national prominence when it bested all comers in a blind tasting conducted by the Los Angeles Times. Their bottles are now generally found in many restaurants in the Philadelphia area, as well as at restaurants in New York, California, and other locations. We tried two of their chardonnays from the Columbia Valley in eastern Washington. Chardonnay is the principal grape in white Burgundy from France, is Washington State's most-planted wine variety and has been embraced in areas as far-apart as Long Island, Italy and Australia. Based on our tastings, the West Coast of the United States is clearly producing some refreshing chardonnay. American Chardonnays are often known for having a bit of an oaky flavor, often necessary given the Chardonnay grape's intrinsic lack of pronounced character, and these wines are no exception.
For those of you who haven't experienced a Philly winter before, you ought to get outside and take advantage of the nice weather while it lasts. With few warm days left this summer, it makes sense to enjoy some refreshing white wines (never mind the fact that we're tasting these on a rainy, cold evening.) We visited the local Pennsylvania State Wine & Sprits store at 1913 Chestnut Street and picked out a few domestic whites that you ought to be able to find in both stores and restaurants, at price levels appropriate for starving students.
Chateau Ste Michelle is a respected producer from Washington State, a state with over 100 wineries. Indeed, a Johannisberg Riesling 1972 from Chateau Ste Michelle set Washington State wine on the road to national prominence when it bested all comers in a blind tasting conducted by the Los Angeles Times. Their bottles are now generally found in many restaurants in the Philadelphia area, as well as at restaurants in New York, California, and other locations. We tried two of their chardonnays from the Columbia Valley in eastern Washington. Chardonnay is the principal grape in white Burgundy from France, is Washington State's most-planted wine variety and has been embraced in areas as far-apart as Long Island, Italy and Australia. Based on our tastings, the West Coast of the United States is clearly producing some refreshing chardonnay. American Chardonnays are often known for having a bit of an oaky flavor, often necessary given the Chardonnay grape's intrinsic lack of pronounced character, and these wines are no exception.
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