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one of my favourite wines
It is a Sardegna vermentino, a Cagliari Doc. As a vermentino, it has lower acidity than average, and some might say there’s too much bitterness, but not me. It has a very special floral fragrance, a kind of fragrance belonging…
The Role of PVPP in Wine Clarification
One of the drawbacks of natural wine is instability. I have tasted numerous of white natural wines of which I liked the first sip (I cannot remember many reds that i Liked) , but which I found undrinkable after some…
Disputing taste 2024-10-27 (not only about natural wines)
Very funny: DionBot praises natural wines
Step into the quirky, vibrant world of natural wine and embrace the funky flavors waiting to be discovered!
Natural wines – a hoax?
Riccardo Cotarella attacks the “natural wine movement” and its representatives head-on in an article in “Gambero Rosso” (). I fully agree with Cotarella’s technical comments. However, I don’t agree with the overall condemnation. The categorisation of wine producers into “conventional”…
Acidification
pros and cons of natural wine
I like to try natural wines, probably because the first natural white/orange wine I tried gave me a very good impression, which had a nice aroma of salty citrus peel, and some fine hint of pickles. I tried hundreds of natural…
how to make a good wine
“Wuhan-Umbria” had a meeting with Liù Pambuffetti, the Production Responsible and Family coordinator at Scacciadiavoli winery.
Soana
In 2016 we imported some 100rd bottle of Soana to China. Some of them we lost and we rediscovered in 2019. The wine had changed, but nearly to the better. The usual fruits of apples and pears did transform to…
SO2, some crude calculations and a request
SO2 and/or sulfites are used for 2000 years to preserve wines. Without SO2 wine would quickly go into a unified rotten status. This must have been what they offered Jesus, when he was carrying his cross. The gospels speak about…