Drinking wine can be pure joy, however tasting wine, with focus and intent, can take you on a full-fledged multisensory and intellectual journey. Collecting information through the senses, from the appearance, the aromas on the nose, and the flavors and structure detected on the palate, can help decipher what the wine is and assess the… Continue reading A Quick Guide to Wine Color and The Factors Behind It
Wine’s destiny is to be enjoyed at its best. That might include drinking wine at the recommended temperature or matching it with the right food, but the prerequisite remains: opening the bottle when it reaches its full potential. The vast majority of the wines available to consumers are at their best when they are young.… Continue reading Aging Wine: Which wines age gracefully and what do they evolve into?
🌳Oaked wines are wines that have been fermented or matured in barrels made of Oak wood.🥥Wine usually gains flavours and texture from contact with oak and will likely gain aromas like vanilla, butter, toast, coconut, or baking spices. Oaked white wines usually have more body than its unoaked counterpart, while oaked red wine usually have… Continue reading What is Oaked Wine?
White wines are not usually aged like red wines BUT there are exceptions! Usually, white wines are produced to be enjoyed as 🍋fresh, crisp and ripe/fresh fruity drink and ageing them tends to diminish these qualities. Sometimes winemakers produce white wines that will benefit from further ageing and then specific grape varieties and the winemaking… Continue reading Can You Age White Wine?
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