FOOD AND WINE

White wine is generally served before the red wine. This is best with fish, shellfish,white meat, poultry, veal and dish with cream sauce.

White wine for dishes made of cream sauce.

Red wine for dark meat, chicken, rabbit, tuna and salmon.

Light-bodied wine served before full-bodied.  Light-bodied wine for lighter dish while full-bodied wine for richer dish.

Sparkling wine of Champagne is expensive because it uses the “Methode Champenoise, the classical method of making Champagne which uses the traditional techniques of second fermentation in the bottle and the fermentation process is a hands-on operation.

Drink the same type of wine included in the cooking of a dish.

Make sure to rinse mouth with water before drinking a different wine.

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Some of Wine’s Aging Process

White Wine :

Chenin Blanc (1-3years)

Viogner (1-3years)

Pinot Gris/Pinot Grigio (1-4years)

Muscadet (1-5 years)

Chardonnay(2-8 years)

Red Wine :

Tempranillo (2-10years)

Barbera (3-10years)

White Merlot (1-3years)

Pinot Noir (2-12years)

Cabernet Sauvignon ((3-15years)

Aging varies depending on the vintage and region. It is better to ask the wine merchant for details.

Basic Wine Lingo

Aroma. General term usually positive for the smell of the wine such as fruity,spicy,earthy and so on.

Balanced. Refers to the harmonious balance of a wine’s components such as acidity,sweetness,tannin,alcohol,oat, and so on.

Body. The density of a wine : thin, light, medium, or full-bodied.

Barrel-Fermented.  Wine that is fermented in small barrels instead of  large tanks.

Complex. Describes a wine that is multidimensional in terms of flavor and aroma, etc.

Floral. The aroma of flowers can be found in white wines such as carnation,jasmine,orange blossom rose petals, and for red wines roses,violets etc.

Full-bodied.  A wine with rich, mouth filling texture and weight on the palate.

Oaky. The aroma derived directly from the oak barrel aging and usually described as vanilla-like.

Rich.  Deeply flavorful and textured wine.

Wine Trivia :  Wine as disinfectant or stain remover.  Mark Daeschel, A microbiologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon discovered  that white wine is an excellent remover of red stains and cleaner of kitchen countertops.  According to Daeschel, white wine acts as a disinfectant and kills salmonella, a common food-borne bacterium, within a few seconds.  So, next time you have a left-over wine, do not throw it straight it into trash but to the kitchen instead.  Watch video for more details.

WINE GLASSES

Wine glasses varies for the types of wines.  A good wine glass should be clear crystal, and stem should not be too long or short for proper handling. 

Examples of wine glasses are : 

Champagne flute

Bordeaux red wine glass

White wine glass

Sherry glass

Port glass

One of the finest maker of glassware is from an Austrian Wine Glass Company, Riedel. See various wine glasses, explore more information on wine colors,  wine serving temperatures and watch video gallery  from their website.

Wine Glasses Music

Wine glasses creates music through the rims filled with water, and the player’s fingers rubbed them to create notes. Way back 1741, a glass harp instrument or musical glasses which made of upright wine glasses was created by an Irishman Richard Pockrich, the first virtuoso of the instrument. This has been more popularized in the 18th century mostly in European countries, and up to the present several musicians are into wine glasses music.

Robert Tiso is an Italian glass harp musician with classical repertoire. Classical music lovers will definitely enjoy his glass harp videos.

"Hungarian Dance" No. 5 by Johannes Brahms

“The Swan” from the Carnival of the Animals by Composer Camille Saint Saens.

Other excellent videos of him are "Moonlight Sonata"  by Ludwig van Beethoven, How to Tune a Glass harp.  See more of his videos.

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