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Orange wines - a short introduction
Three crucial things happen in the production of orange wines. On the one hand, the dyes are loosened from the grapes, on the other hand, (as with the red wine) there is an extraction of the tannins and, last but not least, long -term contact with oxygen. The result is a color spectrum that covers everything from Buddhist monk cowl to schnitzel panier (depends above all on the grape variety), tannins that give the wines a firm and compact structure and an aroma profile ...
Nerello mascalese - old vines on the Etna
The large variety of northeastern Sicily has its name from the mascali level between Catania and the sea. They still exist there, but their most important plantings are a good hour of auto away and a few hundred meters of altitude further up, on the slopes of the Etna. And for some time now, as a large number of vines still exist today, which have been planted in the pre -inflammatory era and are still in earnings today. The Phylloxera Vastatrix, which almost destroyed the entire vine in Euro...
Autochthon varieties in Italy
Italy is a paradise for all those who want to leave the path of the wine world. The countless geographical, geological and local peculiarities that are from Eisack valley Until after Marsala, are supplemented by an unmanageable range of Autochthonian grape varieties that are unique in the world. The national grape location register lists around 500 varieties in its catalog.
Rossese
Rossese is sensitive, filigree, subtle and has the body of a tubercular intellectual of the 19th century. Its color is as transparent as contact lenses and brighter than blood, after a few years it changes to a rust -colored orange. He ages miserably, oxidizes too quickly and only does work. It is at least in need of explanation that one of the best and most elegant Italian red wines in Italy will be made of it ...
Wine bars in Bologna
You can in BolognaOf course, do other things than hang around in really good wine bars. On the other hand, nothing speaks against it, instead of in the evening in any local AM Neptune fountainto be pulled over the table, in Pollaio or Faccioli To crouch at the counter and drink through the best wines in the country.
