Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adams House Wine Tasting Society is a group of about 30 Gold Coasters who gather bi-monthly to savor and discern the peculiar essence of a number of wines...
...Tastevins by no means compose a general drinking society, having a particular contempt for those who drink wine for its intoxicating effects. This is illustrated by the society's tradition of throwing out all wine not used at a tasting. Those members who simply cannot get accustomed to this idea are expelled from the group for "enjoying their wine too much...
...Wine-tasting is not original with the Adams group. On the contrary, it dates back centuries in the history of Europe and still flourishes in many parts of the world. Perhaps the most well-known group is "Les Chevaliers de Tastevin", a French association. Because of its age, a great wealth of tradition has grown up around the "cult of wine." There are many established authorities on the subject of wine-tasting and the procedure is well fixed and followed...
...Adams Wine Tasters follow the established tradition very closely. A set ritual is held too, which according to one member of the the society, is sometimes carried out "with as much precision as the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace...
Before each meeting, the two advisers, Seymour O. Simches, instructor in Romance Languages, and Robert F. Metzdorf, Cataloguer in Houghton Library, choose the particular type of wine to be tasted; Rhone, Bordeaux, Burgundy, or Rhine wine, and order it from either Boston or New York importers...