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Wine based drinks
Personally, I don’t recommend wasting a good wine on mixting it with other drinks and stuff, but I shall publish a list of wine based drinks and have you decide what is worth.
Brandy is a general term for distilled wine which has been aged for at least two years (looks like wine, but tastes differently).
Calimocho […]
Riesling - strong personality wine
Mentality and spirit combined with a great personality are always bound to make a great brand, revealing the value within. German mentality and spirit combined with great German personality are easily recognised in German wine. That goes double if we are talking about Riesling.
Riesling is Germany leading grape variety, known for its characteristic “transparency” in […]
Chocolate love story wine
It seems more and more that wine and love have prety much in common. Just finished talking about Romeo and Juliet, and now its time to find out about a bavarian called Gustav Clauss and his love for a greek girl called Daphne. Of course it’s a legend! But it’s a really nice one, telling […]
Bitter wine
There is a song called “Bitter wine”, but I’m not going to tell you about the song. The topic of this blog is a wine called Amarone, one of Italy’s reason of pride on the European marquet. Amarone, officially called Amarone della Valpolicella Classico is perfect for the wine drinkers that seek a sense of […]
Sweet choice of wine
The names of wines are very important in the wine industry, that is because they are supposed to be bought and for that it is required a certain image on the marquet. Besides that, wines are usually ambassadors of their regions and they give pride to those who worked hardly to obtain them. That is […]
Romania, wine tradition
Where do I begin? Well, its hard but still I will start with… the beginning. Greeks arrived in Dacia (present day Romania) 3,000 years ago and brought the vine. We should say that the first wine was a red one. The geographical position and climate were an advantage, needless to say the natives loved […]
Breathing … wine
The moment of opening and drinking a bottle of wine is as important as time is essential in the maturation of the wine. The labels on certain bottles suggest that they should be set aside for an hour (or […]
Vinho Verde
A category of wine that is unique and typical of Portugal is Vinho Verde. It is the first portuguese wine to be sold in the European markets. Vinho Verde is produced from grapes which do not reach great doses of sugar. Therefore, it does not require an aging process. These are very light wines and […]
Premium wines
Expensive high-class restaurants will present on the menu a list of exquisite wines that are … what else than expensive.Those are called premium wines, white or red (especially red), being often at their best years or even decades after bottling. That certainly can bring out the flavour in enjoying a meal in a beautiful restaurant, […]
Born old. Youth and wisdom
There is a saying: give me the youth and strength of a 20 years old and the wisdom of a 60 years old. To put in another way, I want to be young and wise in the same time.
Hard to obtain this if you are a human being, you can […]
