Monday, 15 January 2018

Wine regions of france

The main wine growing regions of France Alsace Bordeaux Burgundy Beaujolais Champagne. Côtes du Rhone Jura  Languedoc Loire Valley Médoc Provence South-west Alsace Situated on the lower eastern slopes of the Vosges mountains, in the Rhine valley between Strasbourg and Mulhouse, the Alsace vineyard is rather different from any other...
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Sunday, 14 January 2018

False Belief about wine - Q2

Crystals in the wine! Has the winemaker added sugar? These crystals, transparent in white wine, sometimes coloured in red, are potassium bitartrate, or just tartrates, which tend to form more quickly under the influence of lower temperatures. What are tartrates?  Tartrates, affectionately...
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Saturday, 13 January 2018

False Beliefs about Wine - Q 1

Is Rosé  a mixture of Red and white wine? It almost happened! Some European countries hoped to obtain authorization to mix white and red wine to produce Rose table wines (as was current practice in certain new world countries). Fortunately France and Italy Prevailed. making Rose requires...
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Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Tuesday, 9 January 2018