Olive Oil's Wine Dinner #1 10-29-08
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Submitted by admin on Sun, 10/26/2008 - 10:34
How Wine is Made
- Grape Cultivation and harvesting
- Wine production
- Types of Wines
- Dry
- Sweet
- Sparkling
- Fortified
- White wine vs red wine
- Where does the red color come from?
- Is the juice of a red grape red?
- Sweet wine production
- Do they just add sugar??
- How come the alcohol levels are so low in sweet wines?
- Sparkling wine production
- Where do the bubbles come from?
- Charmat vs champenois
- Fortified wine production
- Port
- Marsala
- Sherry
- Types of Wines
- Where does the alcohol come from? And can I get some more please???(kidding!)
- Fermentation, maceration, malolactic
- Stainless steel vs oak
- Aging wine before bottling
- Racking, filtering
- bottling and packaging: decisions, decisions!
- Have everyone taste the wine while I'm talking about wine production
- After a few minutes of talking, ask everyone to describe the wine
- Involving all your senses
- What the tongue can "sense"
- Translate the tongue's "vocabulary" into wine vocablulary
- Take your time! You'll get to the drinking soon..
- tasting vs drinking
- room for both!
- Does it taste like it looks/ smells/feels?
- Classifiying the wines you taste
- Describe the cheese, the
- What makes a wine heavy?
- What is sweet? And how sweet?
- Why does this wine make my mouth feel like someone dragged a teabag across my tongue???
- Oak? Butter? Toast? Caramel???
- HMM, this wine tastes totally different when I have a piece of cheese with it..
- How the heck am I supposed to remember all this stuff?
- Like with like
- contrasts
- classic pairings
- are there really rules for this stuf???
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