Catégorie : wine-ing about it

  • 2021: Year of (Prosecco) Rosé

    2021: Year of (Prosecco) Rosé

    A good couple of months ago, when we were just starting to shed our winter layers in favour of milder twenty-something degree days, I said to my partner: “2021 is rosé year”.  As an initial explanation, I played into the emotional reasoning, waxing poetic on…

  • Heat Waves: Good wine gone bad

    Heat Waves: Good wine gone bad

    It’s safe to say that fairly few winemakers go about trying to make bad wine (Tassenberg, La Villageoise and Est! Est!! Est!!!, I’m looking at you). However, even when the producer is able to deliver a perfectly good bottle of wine – things can go…

  • Acidity vs. Tannins

    Acidity vs. Tannins

    Some wines are unashamedly easy to read. Their fruits are easy to pick up on, and all the other characteristics are laid bare for even a novice to identify. Others are trickier, requiring a few minutes of smelling, tasting, re-smelling and re-tasting, as well as…