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Wines get their unique taste from their terroir – the soil in which the vines grow. Where are your roots drawing their nourishment? And how is that showing up in you now? Source: Box of Crayons
Laat je gaan en lees verder: Great work provocations and wine
Why make things easy if you can make them complicated…or DIC (“Do It Complicated”) instead of KISS (“Keep It Simple Stupid”).
Just today I was thinking why I think so much about wine (and why it gave me a headache)…and then I analysed my day… AM: Working a bit – The Michel Rolland Collection AM: opening my fridge for some milk and seeing the bottles of Skok (Friuli). AM: cleaning up some papers and encountering papers [...]
Laat je gaan en lees verder: My day in wine: Saturday 16/6/2012
We have tasted worldwide 5 wines, so I guess 5 conclusions would suffice: This was one helluffa great experience Funtastic diversity (as well in styles as price brackets) Languedoc-Roussillon rocks (at least most of this selection ) Sud de France has made a showcase of how an umbrella organization can make an unforgettable event Wine [...]
Laat je gaan en lees verder: Sud de France Synchronized Worldwide Tasting – Conclusion
Very expressive nose with a lot of grapey aromas followed by roses. Followed by some lychee and citrusfruits. Hell yeah, this is what I expect from a VDN (“Vin Doux Naturel” = a wine fortified with alcohol in order to keep some sugar and sweetness in the wine) muscat wine: no detour just straight seduction! [...]
An intense ruby red in the glass. The first sniff is very seductive: ripe black fruits with blackcurrants and blackberries in front and smoky aromas of the wood ripening. After a while those typical spicy notes free up: mint, lavender and rosemary tickle my nose. These makes me think about a warm lazy afternoon in [...]
Laat je gaan en lees verder: Wine 4 – Red : Dromadaire 30670, VDP/IGP Pays d’OC, cuvée 2006
A very commercial look with a transparent label and some butterflies lingering on the bottle. Not the type of label that would attract this guy but I could imagine that a lot of people dig such a kind of bottle. The color is a nice pink and this is were the transparent label gets his [...]
Laat je gaan en lees verder: Wine 3 – Rosé : Fruité Catalan, AOC/AOP Côtes du Roussillon
A first sniffy sniff and you note that we are playing in the premier league (that league of French barriques): a medium expressive nose with lime and grapefruit on the foreground and a hint of nuts roasted in butter. Everything backboned by some wood: toasty notes and a trace of vanilla. After walsing the nose [...]
Laat je gaan en lees verder: Wine 2 – White : Cigalus, VDP/IGP Pays d’OC, cuvée 2008
Let’s kick of with some bubbly stuff. Nothing better to sharpen your hunger than a glass of sparkling wine. We have here a Crémant de Limoux. According to the AOC/AOP regulations such a crémant should be composed as follows: chardonnay (40% minimum) – chenin (20% minimum) – chardonnay + chenin (90% maximum). Secondary grapes: mauzac [...]
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