Collectors will wax poetic about the virtues of vintage Champagne—the progression of the bubbles, the inimitable yeast flavors that develop with age and how the wine shape shifts over the passage of time. But Prosecco, an equally historic sparkling wine made primarily with the indigenous Italian...
Riesling is – if the majority of top wine critics are to be believed – the world's finest white-wine grape. This claim may seem at odds with the sea of artificially sweetened, low-quality wine
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Comes in an elegant if heavy bottle with a soft wax capsule. Reducing sugar: 3.6 g/l. 13% ABV. Quebec agent: oenopole. Intensely aromatic nose of sweet red and black fruit, sandalwood and inky minerals. In the mouth, it’s medium-bodied and fluid. As befits a warm vintage, the ...
Amphora: A ceramic vessel (typically made of earthenware such as clay or terra-cotta and sometimes lined with wax or resin) used to make, age and store wine. For millennia, amphorae were the most popular vessels for storing wine; the earliest known examples date to around 6,000 B.C. Am...
Grapes are picked by hand and de-stemmed gently, fermentation happens with wild yeasts naturally present on the berry skins in open top steel tanks. During the fermentation long pump overs are done twice a day in the first half and reduced in duration and frequency going towards the end. At...
A bottle of non-mevushal kosher wine that is corked and sealed with a closure, yes those annoying little dollops of wax on top of the cork also act as a closure, stays kosher. The state of kosher for a bottle of wine does not change as long as it stays sealed the way you bought...
that has almost disappeared from the vineyards in Madeira. The wine has been in wood for over 80 years. The wine has hints of citrus peel, caramel, orange marmalade, with a touch of bees’ wax and a note of sea salt. This is the second great bottle of Madeira we had with Ed and ...
“The 2010 Chardonnay Russian River has an evolving nose of key lime pie, candle wax, crushed stone and dried white flowers. Medium to full-bodied with softening citrus and floral notes in the mouth plus toasty touches, it still maintains wonderful juicy acidity to lift the very long, minera...