All Things Wine — wine delivery
Essential Oils - Altering Taste Profiles & Wine Pairings
Did you know that there are other ways of enhancing the flavour of wines other than ageing? We tried a trick (some of you may call it cheating or straight up terrible, but we’re adventurous that way) of using the scent of essential oils to alter the taste profile of wines! We figured that they would be something similar to how food pairings would alter our appreciation of a particular wine. In this article, we summarise our experience, and our feedback If you’re lazy to read through the whole thing, here’s our key takeaways: Essential oils, done right, don’t interfere,...
Chinese Wines, and they're not fakes
Most people think of Australia, South African, or US when asked about new world wines. These wines are very well known, & have their own unique flavours from the different climates that they are grown in. South African wines, for example, often have their own unique character that makes it distinctive. It has a woodiness and carries a beautiful smoky, sultry, herbaceous character, enveloping the drinker with flavours of dark fruit and cherries. But there are some other interesting regions out there, such as that of China (say whatttt!). The still young average age of the vines in the region promote...
Wine and Food pairings - Cheat Sheet
When I was younger and first learnt to appreciate the taste of wine, I started ordering them with my meal, I remember loving the first few sips and then once I tried it again with food – it felt so damn siap on my tongue and I couldn’t taste the initial fruity or floral scent. Then I figured how important of a role food in pairing with the wine. Red, Whites, Bubbly. Dessert. Spicy, fruity, floral, mineral-y, sugar sweet. Don’t fret, let’s take it one at a time. Reds Pairing red wines with food largely base on the tannins and...
Types of Sparkling Wine: Bubbling Goodness
It’s a hot, sunny afternoon and you can’t decide if you should pop open that apple Cider you bought last night or have that Antiguas Reservas Chardonnay that was delivered by us today… You wanna drink both but is physically impossible. Well… What if I told you that you can have BOTH in a drink? Introducing the best of both worlds - sparkling wines! Speaking of bubbly… How does a wine pretend to look like soda but still taste like wine? Sparkling wines go through two fermentation processes & it’s the second one that gives it its bubbly character. This...
