Naturally milky wine or not.

What a difference does a color make in wine! A hazy or milky red wine cannot be perceived as tasty as bright wine or can it? If the color is not bright, I might have a strong feeling that there might be something wrong especially if it's the first time I'm tasting it. The non-filtered or/and non-fined wines might behave that way I have recently learned.

I can imagine how many riesling producers lose their good night's sleep over the worrying of the potassium bitartrate crystals appearing in wine. Couple of weeks ago I had a '98 Santenay from Bourgogne where one bottle was bright but slightly out of condition and another one milky and more expressing nose but not giving everything I'd hoped an aged wine to give. In the end I concluded error on both of them or was it?

Last week I found milk in my red Bourgogne again. This time smelling like manure. It was a lovely rustic wine. I understand that the haziness could come from hands-off-style vinification. Weird. Does the real wine mean more non bright wines? I need to try the third wine Naudin-Ferrand Bourgogne '07 again.  Waiting how it will show itself me this time.

Recaredo Is Promising

How tough it is to get people to taste something they have never heard of and can't find almost any reliable information in English from the web. A couple of weeks ago I participated to a Recaredo portfolio tasting where there was just one handful of people.

What a producer. Not your average cava! The cavas were reductive and oaked like Bollinger or Krug but as stylish as them. Apparently, they age their bottles with natural cork stopper. The oldest cava tasted was from the '99. The single vineyard Turó d'en Mota of just 0,97ha. It was just extraordinaire quality.

Today, they try to do everything manually and respecting the biodiversity. They produce xarel.lo based brut nature cava with remuage and degorgement à la volée with an official organic approach to their viticulture. However they are still experimenting with yeast. Currently relying mostly to commercial but working towards to their own culture.

Recaredo is doing to cava what I like about my favorite grower-champagnes. I can know from which vineyard(s) the bottle comes from and can further find information about the climate and soil characteristics. This is what I miss in Champagne in general. Luckily there are many excellent and promising producers in Champagne. Recaredo is now excellent but with a promising future ahead. I hope to be able to follow their journey.

Writing this I have developed a thirst for champagne so I guess I'll be celebrating the 1^st of May with some recently acquired Tarlant.

je suis parti 

Viiniexpo in Helsinki visited 18-19. March 2010

Not enough water, not enough wine pourers, you cannot pour the wine you want to taste yourself, the guys who give the wine glasses for 12 euros à pièce are out of this planet when they don't want to exchange the dirty ones for new. Everybody knows everybody but when this guy from baltic cruises the pourer knows completely ignores the rest. Leaving the rest of visitors to think should they pour for themselves.

What's the deal with the water and beer tastings? Not enough wine merchants? Why does it cost so frickin' much to get a 3 square meter stand at this “expo”? Why do some of the more interesting wine importers setup their own anti Viinilehti exhibition?

What's the deal with 10 euro sushi prepackaged a month earlier? Oh no, I forget what sus-hi is! At least here. すし、寿司、鮨 are extinct in the Winland. To born in Finland equals a nailed lottery ticket! But if you find yourself here it equals you're nailed in here! What's wrong with this place and this country? Make money or do it good? What to do?

You a sommelier? A wine importer? Oh you know wine? This is a Bourgogne rouge err this is red Burgundy. From pinot noir. Côte de Nuits is in northern part of Burgundy. Erste lage. Oh you know German wines! This Napa Pinot retails for 30 quids in the United States. Oh you like pinot? This wine has 91 Parker points. This wine also comes with silver, golden and platinum labels. We have these wines here just to show you the labels. Wine? Why bother when you can brag with your lovely luxury bottles and only need one of each to show off.

Overall. The wines were excellent. Did I taste a wine that I wouldn't want to taste again? Yes I did. Still I met some very interesting people there. Oh Toni Jost! What a pleasant surprise to note that the champagne I had developed a dislike is from a place I enjoy very much. Vertus. Coteaux Champenois. Not to be tasted along with other French pinot noirs. Champagne 2002 and 2004. I tell you! But I think and hope you in the know.

Tell me about Savigny-lès-Beaune! So many wines represented! Doudet-Naudin's Chambolle-Musigny 2006 opened yesterday wow! The German wines were lovely shones with the balance of sugar and acidity! Surprise? No.

Je m'en vais, salut !

The Prelude

This is it then.
This is about the wines, the food and the places I have found interesting enough to write about.
It's about the everyday life of us.　

はじめまして。
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