White Riesling Wine

Until the 20th century there were only two great wines producing countries in the world : France and Germany. Germany’s location at the northern most extreme of where grapes can even ripen at all . Is another reason why most people just don’t associate Germany with vineyards and these vineyards are all like really all the date back to like the ancient Romans and later in the middle ages monks used to tend to this vineyards. I mean, these things got some history. Riesling grapes are what Germany is famous for, its what they do best. They are never mixed with any other grapes and they are delicious.

There is all sorts of things to know about this from deciphering these German labels, to degrees of sweetness and dryness and when they harvest and everything and it’s overwhelming. You know that Albert Einstein was known also for his knowledge about Riesling wine. He know the part scientific, part historic, part romantic and lot of census of information and passion for the versatile German Riesling great proved infectious and inevitable invaluable. He saids that all the vineyards in Germany on the southside have the sun hits him and that makes grape scroll nice and plump. Riesling going to be very populary. But, before German Riesling was a secret among the inner sancturn of the wine world. For find a good Riesling, first you have to find long, green and beautiful bottles. Also, all Riesling wine are sweet, and they make nice dry wine as well. German make wine that sometimes showed Rio and make you dance the tango. There is a well balanced of sweetness. During the second world war two, there is some rumours that people says about Riesling. In fact, GI said that Riesling was to sweet, and because of word of mouth, since this, everybody say that, but it’s wrong ! It’s a wine very strong, very fresh, based on mineral aromas. It’s a wine very clear, you have to drink this with seafood, it’s an excellent association !

As you know about German reputation, the german wine is very strict ! When you look at the label, you generally see QMP, if you don’t see this label, it’s mean that’s the wine does not come from Germany !

 

You have to think before to drink it, you have to smell before drink it. Think about this ! And don’t forget to taste it !

Chenin Blanc

It’s a white wine from South Africa. One of our favorite regions for producing very good high quality reds and whites from around the world. I’s one of the last places on earth the line with South America that produce very good high quality wine for a very good price.

Shannon Block is their main white grape in south africa. It’s a beautiful country, right off Cape Town, so you’re right down south. The only reason that South Africa is cool enough because Africa is warm continent is cool enoughis the Artic breezes, the art pieces come up from the south and cool things off a bit, sot hey can produce beautiful crisp white wines as ricer red lines as well. So it’s sort of the perfect climate for producing line. Lot of people also don’t realize that they’ve been making wine in south Africa since the fifteen hundreds so it was part of the spice route, the Europe came down established cape town as a stop at a port on the long spice route, on their way to Indian and Asia. They were going to go down there and not bring the wine with them they need something to drink so they brought down grapes with them from Europe and they Colonize south Africa and that’s why we have beautiful line down.

Its hand harvested, everything here is done by hand which is the best quality if you could have something done by hand is better than a machine generally. A machine isn’t a selective as a human. It’s kind of a common question, a lot of times people are love oak, they token white wine. California Chardonnay is a great example many California chardonnays have a lot of oak aging to it so they put  the wine in an oak barrel and it gives vanilla, caramel and cream and buttery flavors, buttery textures and it’s 1100 thing. It’s very polarizing so some people love it, some people hate it. The wine that we choose, saw no so he was asian stainless steel tanks it keeps it crisp and refreshing, it’s very zippy, very lively. You can have it by itself, you can have it with food as well and be great with seafood shrimp, oysters, mussels anything along those lines.

It’s a wine very intense, very complex. South Africa’s wine, permits to try something new, something different. If you like pinot grigio, if you like something blog, it’s perfect for you !

France and Italy Wine

Most of the best wine comes from France and Italy, came from originally, it’s basic and then the new  world is everyone else essentially so the United states, South America, South Africa and all new countries as New Zealand, Australia, all those are new world countries. They came along really in the last hundred years without further. All new country of wine, are more and more famous, nowadays, but have take their grape varieties from France like Merlot, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, and others grape varieties.

Let’s talk a little bit about Prosecco. It’s a sparkling wine, you can drink this in a sort of a narrowed neutral glass. It’s the best way to taste a wine, it’s permit to have enough oxygen to come in contact with the wine but it needs to be narrowed and focus a bit at the top to concentrate those aromas and flavors. Prosecco looks like Champagne, but prosecco areas comes from Venator region of Italy, northeastern Italy right above Venice is a hillsides of torino. In this area they produce some of the best  sparkling wines in LA, and prosecco is one of the most well known. It’s about half price of champagne. They don’t produce this with champagne method, they making in larger tanks, so it’s a bit less expensive but it’s fantastic because it’s a third of the price. It’s also fruitier than champagne. Champagne has a test to be a bit more toasty and nutty. Whereas Prosecco is great because it’s fruity. You can drink a brut Prosecco means that it’s dry. Prosecco is more fun, during aperitif, it’s enjoyable with some friends over the house, just to do a little party. Also, it’s very good with meal, you can have this with chicken or salads, even during winter. The best way is, with sort of an herb-crusted chicken or pork line is really great. Also with sea food, it’s very tasty and sensitive.

You can find this kind of wine in lot of places like restaurants, supermarket. But you can find the best prosecco with wine merchants. The price are between 15 and 45€. So, we believe that everyone can taste Prosecco, and have to taste this.

So it’s a wine very affordable by the price, the taste and others elements. That’s why offer to you the opportunity to more discover this why, and all secrets.

White Wine

We know that tasting wine is very difficult because white wine looks the same, even for red or rosé. They look pretty similar. But you don’t necessarily know what you’re going to try as soon as you put it in the glass but there are a number of visual clues that you can look at.

For example, you take, a Haut Marin, cuvée n°6. You can see that it’s got a kind of deep yellow hue which tells us that it probably has just a little bit of oak aging. Now oaken parts some extra flavor compounds which strenghtens the flavor a little bit. Also, it could be a little bit later harvest, their could have been some more residual sugars in there that will make the wine a little bit more powerful when you try it. So thinking about that wine can’t show you a lot before you even try it.

Now the steps for trying wine, you know, most people remember throught the 4 s’s : You sniff, you swirl it, you smell it again and then you sip it. For Haut Marin, this wine is still a little warm, so it’s not quite as aromatic as it could be but we can still get some notes of honey,  some floral notes which are really nice and just a little bit of ripe kind of apricot fruit. You might be think to yourself how we can smell all that. You have to know that a white wine, could run the gamut from smelling like grapes of course to other fruits ; be a apricots, peaches, kiwi, honey. And also have grassy notes, herbal notes, and what they do is they kind of go through this checklist in their head thinking, ask some question to you, like : Do I smell some peaches ? yes, no ? And this mental checklist, they are able to identify different flavors and aromas that they might not otherwise be recognized and that kind of a way of making up those visual cues that you might normally have went a plate of food is put in front of you. Then you have to shake your glass of wine, and the reason is that their wine contains called phenolic compounds and those phenolic compounds are what actually gives it the smell in the aroma that makes wine enjoyable to drink. Many people know that a good majority of what you actually taste comes from what you smell.

Pellehaut Domain

 

 

Pellehaut domain is located in the south-west of France. This Domain is famous in this region because it sells wines of high qualities. In fact, this domain product white, red and rosé wine. The domain have 550 hectares with 250 hectares of vineyards. This domain is managed in a traditional way by two brothers Martin and Mathieu BERAUT.

Pellehaut communicates on its way of fabrication (innovative technology and ancestral manufacturing).

Pellehaut commercialize different type of white wine:

HARMONIE:

First, Its dress is light and clear. The nose reveals a big aromatic intensity. The exotic notes are linked with the floral touch: lemon, peach, grapefruit, flower and lime tree go. You have to discover this garden of flower. In mouth, the flavors balance each other between a fresh and a long final. If you test this wine, you will find the obstinacy and the intensity of these aromas! This wine is perfect with the products of the sea: ideal with she
lls and salmon, Enjoy ! 

 

 

AMPELOMERIX:

Pellehaut propose another white wine, the Ampélomerix. This wine has yellow color, an intense and meaning nose of citrus and candied fruits. In mouth, you can find peaches and apricots flavors with a little touch of lemon trees in flowers. You have to taste this
beautiful wine with fishes or poultry.

 

 

 

L’ETE GASCON

This category of wine is different than others, in fact, it’s little more sweet. This wine have a yellow dress, an intense nose of exotic fruits ( pineapple, kiwi, mango, papaya and some notes of mandarin). A real dessert in mouth, between sweetness, tonic effect and freshness, this wine will accompany marvelously all your meals, your apéritifs and your desserts.

 

 

 

 

FAMILY RESERVE

This other white wine is special. It has a big shine and a light yellow color for a wine of character. In the nose, this wine shows its intensity. You going to discover fruits, caramel and flowers flavors. In the mouth it is also tasty with its candied fruits. You have to ta
ste this wine with grilled meats, cheese or with dessert.

 

 

 

PILAHO

The last white wine of Pellehaut Domain is Pilaho. Pilaho is a particular wine because it’s sparkling wine. This sparkling offers fine bubbles with aromas of fruits (peach, apricot, pineapple and passion). In mouth, the sugar, the bubbles and fruits create a very good sensation of freshness. Pilaho will be very good with all your apéritifs and friendly moments, particularly with a dessert.

Shells & Crustaceans

In this article, we gonna to talk about Riesling. It’s a grape variety of wine which from Rhin and Moselle, in France. It’s a very old grape variety, already described at the time of the romans. Nowadays, Riesling is grape variety very famous in France and abroad which very exploited in New Zealand, Australia and others country. So we will  see how and with which to associate this wine.

Cuvée Domain Schieferkopf – Riesling Via Saint-Jacques 2011

With this wine, we can smell many flavours like agrums for example pineapple. In mouth, we can identify a little acidity with a freshness and minerality who will persist until final. This wine have a beautiful gold dress. You have to degust this wine with seafood and shellfishes. It will be a very good experience for wine lover who really know good white wine, who know real Riesling !

Cuvée Albert Mann – Riesling Grand Cru Furstentum 2013

This wine is fresh and intense in the nose, we can identify aromas of pineapple candied fruits. Full, rich, long, intense and elegant, this Riesling is structured and spicy. Very long in final and young, this wine could be very very good in some years. You can degust this wine a carpaccio or seafood.   Hummmmm Enjoy 😉

Cuvée Zind-Humbrecht – Riesling Clos Windsbuhl 2012

This wine has bottle in march 2015, this wine is very elegant, we can found some aromas like cherry and little oil of lemon. This wine is very rich in mouth with a light acidity with minerality. This wine has a rich texture and very elegant final and dress.
We love this wine ! It’s your Wine Crush because he have a great value and also because it’s a litlle bit production, with good process of production, as you know.

Wine Advice

This wine is excellent with St Jacques or  some fishes like sea Eel, Bar, Cod, Colin or Dorado. Cuvée Domain Schieferkopf is more dry, with mineral aromas. Mineral aromas means that’s we are with flint aromas. Wheareas Cuvée Albert Mann is more fruity. So, the first is more for aperitif, while the second is more for a good seafood or Capaccio as we said before.

FAMILY HISTORY : Louis Michel & Fils Domain

BURGUNDY Wine

The Michel family is hired in Chablisienne viticulture since 1850. Today, Guillaume and Jean-Louis Michel working by keeping the philosophy of their ancestors: wine production in indigenous yeast, no use of the barrel, not enough manipulation during wine production, a long animal husbandry. All this by supporting of high standards in the grapevine to produce of high quality Chablis.

Cuvée 1^er cru Montée de Tonnerre 2013

This 1st Vineyard Rise of Thunder mix wealth of the fruit and mineral freshness. This Chablis Chardonnay 100 % sport a lemon yellow colour dress. It is balanced between very ripe fruits and mineral freshness. Warm, salivante and iodized in mouth with a final seasoned by cinnamon. It is to suffer with a set of seafood and also chitterlings wipe white wine for example.

Cuvée Chablis 2014

Worked out in pure chablisienne tradition, this Chablis comes from an assemblage of 8 places – said planted of grapevines of more than 25 years. It is the expression of the land Kimmeridgien typical of the trade name : minerality and white fruits agree with harmony to give a round and pure wine. The lemon yellow colour dress reveals notes of fruits with white flesh as the peach with a mineral woof. It is to savour with snails, seafood, asparagus, a set of cool cheese.

WINE ADVICE                                                                                                                                             Finaly we’ve got White wine !! Some fresh sensation in mouth, a mineral side, with a little taste of rock of Pyrénées. You will certainly appreciate, Cuvée 1^er cru Montée de Tonerre 2013, on a shellfish salad or during an apéritif or your summer evenings. You must drink this.