| White Wine Secrets |
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| Food and Drink - Ethnic Foods |
| Written by Winnie Fishern |
| Friday, 24 October 2008 07:15 |
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Some people are driven by fame, others by money. Myself? Well that's simple, I am driven by wine. I would love to own my very own vineyard. I want grapes, lots of grapes. When 300 grapes makes a bottle of wine, imagine how many my vineyard could produce?!
Some people are driven by fame, others by money. Myself? Well that's simple, I am driven by wine. I would love to own my very own vineyard. I want grapes, lots of grapes. When 300 grapes makes a bottle of wine, imagine how many my vineyard could produce?! A Nebuchadnezzar sure sounds like a goal celebration, but actually it is the name of the largest bottle of wine you can go out and buy. It is 15 litres and the same volume as 20 normal sized wine bottles!! It is the one occasion where one bottle of this stuff is enough for me! The reason for my new found interest in any one particular type of alcohol is I recently attended a wine tasting event, not the best place for a self proclaimed alcoholic to attend, but needs must. Free alcohol seems like the perfect incentive to visit one of these events to me. Everyone else was getting pretty drunk, but my high tolerance meant I was able to take in a few facts and be educated on the wines on show. I went home and shared these facts i had picked up with my family. They seems pretty impressed i must say! Red grapes can produce red and white wine, however it is the interesting green grape that can only produce white wine and fine wine at that. the skins of the grapes play a major role in making wine. The colour of the wine is due to this. White wine has no colour but the grape juice. The red colour in red wine comes from the skins fermenting in the wine. Much of the fizzy stuff is made using red grapes and not actual white! the skins are removed so your champagne isn't red. Would you be shocked to know that fish extracts or egg whites exist in your white wine? Well these products are commonly used to refine a wine. All you veggies and vegans, check before you drink! a fact that made me throw up a little in my mouth.. Cow's blood was used in the past to refine the wine! Not anymore mind thank god! However after hearing all this, all I could think about was when I could have my next glass, you see all this doesn't bother me, alcohol is alcohol, that sweet aromatic flavour, the sensational warm glow I get inside me upon the sweet grape juice entering my system, far outweighs my ability to care about how its made. only thing to worry about now. In the battle of the white wine and redwho wins? You decide! |