🌳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?
In the debate of Old World wine producers versus the New World producers, Lebanon falls in the ancient wine producer category. The Phoenician civilization in Lebanon (1550BC-300 BC) were thought to be among the first traders of wine based on ancient wine amphorae, clay vessels, found in 2700 year old shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea.… Continue reading Overview of the Wines of Lebanon
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