TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Greetings Infomaniacs,One of my friends writes a food blog for fun, and every so often a company will stumble upon it and send her free stuff to review. Well, a wine company sent her a whole big box of wines and asked for her feedback on them. Since she couldn't drink all of them herself, she had a few friends over to help her out. Of course, I was happy to help out.
That is how I ended up sitting in her kitchen this past Saturday night sampling different wines and rating them on a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being that you would run to the store and buy it the next day, and 1 being I will never drink this wine again).
I enjoyed almost all of them, except for the one called "Bubbles," which resembled champagne a little too much for my liking. Also, I actually DID go out and buy the one I liked the next day. It wasn't on purpose though. I was already at the grocery store and I just stumbled upon the wine aisle...I swear!
Enjoy!
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Visit and Enjoy: EVTV1.com TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTEQUOTE: "Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle."
HINT: (1947-), Brazilian lyricist and novelist.
RANDOM TIDBITSSince wine tasting is essentially wine smelling, women tend to be better wine testers because women, particularly of reproductive ages, have a better sense of smell than men.
Red wines are red because fermentation extracts color from the grape skins. White wines are not fermented with the skins present.
A wine that tastes watery is said to taste "dilute." It may have been made from grapes picked during a rainstorm.
Wine testers swirl their glass to encourage the wine to release all of its powerful aromas. Most don't fill the glass more than a third full in order to allow aromas to collect and to not spill it during a swirl.
The vintage year isn't necessarily the year wine is bottled, because some wines may not be bottled the same year the grapes are picked. Typically, a vintage wine is a product of a single year's harvest. A non-vintage wine is a blend of wines from two or more years.
Traditionally, wine was never stored standing up. Keeping the wine on its side kept the wine in contact with the cork, thereby preventing the cork from drying, shrinking, and letting in air. However, wine can be stored vertically if the bottle has an artificial cork.
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