we went to Sardegna this july, it is my first time there.my impression? this island smells so good! you can smell fragrant plants everywhere, when we arrived at 5am, the air smelled like fresh herb, then in the afternoon the air smelled like roasted herbs, because there are herbs everywhere and the sun was roasting….
we shipped 8 different raw milk cheese from Gut Backensholz” (https://backensholz.de/),and we find 5 wines from our cave to pair with them. for the 2 soft blue cheese-We pair them with a Grechetto from Duca della Cogna. This is a semi-fragrant wine with complete bone structure. It is fragrant but more salty than sweety( which…
I have been making Chinese dishes with local ingredients. here is an example:
There are 2 kinds of wines are difficult to achieve and more precious than others:one kind is the powerful wines with strong character but stay balanced and fine, still have subtle nuances and details, such as quality sangiovese and sagrantino,heavy wines are more likely to give an impression of grandiose, but grand and heavy, are…
In the last two weeks, we had a wine trip in Germany. We had a fun time, despite the totally messed up German train system. It is very convenient to have a wine trip in Germany, you don’t even need a car. Wine countries are accessible by train. In these villages, wineries are more concentrated…
in Chinese art there is a concept of “leave a free space by purpose(留白)”, which is considered essential for all the artworks. And this wine we are talking about is too full in all dimensions, leaves no free space, and ends up lack of character except for being loud
sangiovese is a brilliant grape,but very instable. the easy way to stablize it,is blend it with something else. umbria producers often blend it with cabernet or trasimeno gamay,or both. cabernet could be too square and boring, but it is very stable.even a small amount of cabernet can provide a stable frame for the blend. trasimeno…
