‘It has been the earliest harvest I remember,’ said winemaker Marcelo Retamal, comparing 2017 to the last two decades of Chilean vintages. Chile’s 2017 harvest arrived up to a month early in some regions, but was also notable for high temperatures and low yields. ‘2017 is clearly an atypical vintage, marked by extremely high temperatures, […]
‘Tasting synopsis II’, M. Braun, 2016 Mixed media, object inspired by flavour characteristics found in a Bordeaux
While many blogs state that it isn’t advisable to drink frozen wine, it was hard to find any evidence against the damaging effects of freezing on wine. The most useful article we found was by the Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Both red and white wine can be kept frozen and it is […]
Taste is a very delicate subject. Even wine specialists have fallen out over it. What can be too fruity or overripe for one palate can be perfect for another. What Robert Parker perceives as less than perfect, can be considered sublime by a different European wine critic. Especially when it comes to flavour characteristics such […]
Episode#1: Bud Spencer vs. Wim Wenders Along any new vintage comes the buzz that soon goes viral on the Web. Buzz-makers try to write history before any grape has even been harvested, and in this matter 2015 has started in the best of ways, with a controversy. On the one hand, you have those who […]