Looking forward to watching this one - thanks so much for posting about blends Madeline, it's something I need to learn more about.

That was so much fun! And very informative. Thanks for another great video.

The ultimate breakdown and buildup! Loved the creative approach to "re-blending"

There are a few wineries in Chile that have a make/blend-your-own wine program which I think is a nice change for the same old boring tour. I've only done this with entry-level mono-varietal bottles, so it's easier to isolate the qualities of each wine and what percentage of each varietal you want. However, I still kept to the rules and ended up making my own version of a Bordeaux blend. It's good fun and you can come up with a better wine, but I'd feel bad about blending more expensive blends and taking apart what someone else crafted.

Love your attitude, thanks

I love you. I just discovered your videos and love what you’re doing!

Fun and very gutsy of you Miss M. I love blends.

Love that you mixed into a beaker. Mad scientist 👩‍🔬!

I hope your video inspires people to make their own blends. I do it frequently. It's a lot of fun and often results in the sum being better than the parts!

nothing like a drunk bridesmaid who fell in the pool reviewing wine bottoms up !

Enjoying this video on a Saturday evening eating Snowdonia cheese with a Cab Sav/Franc blend

Fantastic, love the energy and the exercise. the new meaning to BYO Blend Your Own vs Bring Your Own. Awesome way to learn too.

Informative and interesting.

This was so much fun to watch :-) ! What about trying this with mono-varietal wines? Would perhaps be easier to combine? Keep up the great work by bringing fun into the wine-lore. And may we all continue to learn byyyy - drinking...

Fun concept. I do this all the time with whiskey but have never considered doing this with wine.

Stepping up the production!! Nice Maddy

I loved the idea! I sometimes itch to do these things, but always end up thinking it is a shame for the wine. I did it once with 2 really bad wines (one CA way to sweet, and one bland, acidic thing), and the result was a noticeable improvement, albeit from a very low base.

Awesome video!

Just got a copy of "Godforsaken Grapes", a sort of travelogue/ regional hybrid wine review. Interesting!. You might try a tasting of some lesser known hybrids like Traminette, Petit Pearl, and such. Thanks!

amazing

Hahaha reminds me of my kids playing with food after we're done with the meal... at times highly creative, but often times baffling ;)

That looked like fun! Although if I were experimenting, I might have used something a little less prestigious than a Langoa-Barton :)

Nice Job and interesting try ^^

I think the flaw here was trying to mix wines which were already balanced and stable. A better experiment would be to combine unbalanced wines to make something greater than the sum of its parts. Mix an overly acidic and flabby wine with something overly ripe and tannic, for instance, to compensate for each wine's faults.

I’ve recently discovered your videos & really enjoy them! I’ve purchased your Essential Guide to Wine book & wine-colors poster to learn even more. I have been vegan since 2016 & have also recently learned most wine makers use fish, dairy or egg products in filtering their wines. Do you have any advice for finding wine-makers who don’t use animal products in their wine production? I have some favorites, but always looking for new tasty wines. Red or white; I enjoy both. Thanks so much if you can help!

Finding some blends of my own. Interesting, like cooking a mix of leftovers without a recipe.

I’ve been making my own blends for years…towards the end of the evening when the bottles start to run low!…lol

hi folly, what is your favorite wine brands?

You might want to look up that Super Tuscan definition :)

Dr. Frankenstein would be proud

M. Gil Luque Leyenda Oloroso Sherry with Spaghetti while watching this.

I am mixing a Malbec with a Carmenere right this minute cuz one was too fruity the other too sour, now the mix is… I am drunk now.

Very entertaining - and informative ☝️😂

Interesting

Do this with white wines.

I got a bottle of Pirramimma 100% petit Verdot.

She's so cute!

Great！ Try something new

You "bumped up your Spain and France"? This is not how wine is blended. Typically, three to four individual varietals are chosen and narrowed down to perfect proportion. Chateau Montrose - for example - varies from year to year in varietal proportions, but are always Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot and between 2% to 5% Petit Verdot. Then there's the terroir to consider. All of these varietals from the Montrose estate will be individually outstanding because of the estate's terroir. You cannot produce "a great wine" (Ie: a Latour, Haut Brion or Montrose using Cab Sauvignon, Merlot, Cab Franc and Petit Verdot from the Napa Valley, South Africa or Chile. And you cannot produce a wine of any coherence at all by adding "a little bit of France". There are no particular national characteristics with wine, just regional ones and the defining influence there, is the grape and the terroir on which it grew. Keep it simple. Buy yourself some SINGLE VARIETAL wines and blend those. All you're doing here is mixing hamburgers with cabbage and chocolate and hoping for something "different and new". Yes, it will be different and new, but it may not be anything you'd want to drink. Try this: Buy a bottle of 1. Petit Verdot. 2. Touriga Nacional (a huge, and hugely underrated Portuguese grape). 3. Merlot. With just just the sheer tannic power and complexity of the first two, together with the calming effect of Merlot, you should be able to produce something big and very drinkable. It doesn't matter from which countries these three varietals came. Just try blending them in different proportions until you're happy. Repeat this exercise with different varietals of your choice (never more than four) until you've come up with something you really like. But this shit here? This is nonsense. Regards from 🇬🇧

What a waste of time, I was expecting an explanation of why we should or shouldn't try the blends, if there's a rule we need to follow, which varieties are better to blend, Idk... To mix some bottles from my cellar because I like them I can make a video as well.