Gotta love Andrew – he’s always setting some sort of challenge for his friends 😉 This time, it’s to produce a visual tasting note of a wine.
Now we all know how much I love words and what an astonishing number of them I can fit into a post, so for me, this is quite a challenge. Although I think You’ll agree I’ve pulled it off this time.
The wine is a 1995 Bert Simon Riesling, btw.
And as for me, peeps, I’m off to Austria today with Johanna and won’t be back till Mon the 27th. I may not be replying to comments or e-mails till then so please don’t take this personally! Don’t desert Cooksister, though, because there will be a couple of important posts going up in my absence – like WTSIM and SHF 🙂
Auf Wedersehn!
Wine Tasting Note: Domaine Richaud Cairanne, 2003, Cotes du Rhone Village, France.
I’ve been trying too hard (or so the discussions between a few fellow wine bloggers on Twitter would have it). Following its ‘discovery’ here I put a call out to a handful to take up the challenge of providing a…
fantastic photos jeanne!
Whether the wine is aging in tanks or barrels, tests are run periodically in a laboratory to check the status of the wine. Common tests include °Brix, pH, titratable acidity, residual sugar, free or available sulfur, total sulfur, volatile acidity and percent alcohol. These tests are often performed throughout the making of the wine as well as prior to bottling. In response to the results, a winemaker can then decide if more sulfur needs to be added or other slight adjustments before it is bottled.