Dear all,
I recently had a bad experience giving a white card to a sommelier in a restaurant.
The sommelier came back with a natural wine (without sulfur). No problem up to that point. Problem came when my family started the tasting: strange color, nose and taste...and the inevitable question arised: is the wine faulty seb?!
Problem is that The sommelier served the wine into our glass without explaining that a natural wine does not look and taste like an organic/non organic wine. I had to explain to my family that natural wines are very good but that they should not be tasted like the other wines especially as the bottle had just been opened and wine poured into our glasses.
So, here I go with my pieces of advice to make a natural wine a great experience:
- Bottle opening: 20 to 30mn before tasting
- Decanting is from my experience strongly recommended
The nose might smell very strange if annihilated right away same as the taste (some bubbly feeling on the tong). So, letting enough time for the wine to open is the key for successfully tasting such wine.
If you pour the wine straight away without having let the wine open/decant it, advise your guest not to smell/taste the wine before 5 to 10mn otherwine they may think the wine to be faulty/undrinkable.
More info/advices here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_wine
http://www.rawfair.com/what-natural-wine
Hope this help.
Seb.
I like wines, I like wines makers that are doing their best to transmit their passion, I like wine yards.... So, in my blog, you'll find wines I tasted and enjoyed. As well as point of views I'd like to share about the wine industry. Hope you'll like it. seb
Saturday, August 15, 2015
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Summer 2015 Wine Tasting and Ranking
Dear all,
You'll find below some of the wines I tasted. As usual, most of the wines are bio/organic wines.
Special thanks: La Pinte (Arbois, France) and Zoeller (Alsace, France) wineries for their warm welcoming in their property and exceptional wine tasting. Big up to them!
There are coming from various places like Italy, Spain but mainly from France since I spent my vacations in there this year.
To make it more standardized, I copied and past my Vivino notes.
Reminder, follow me on Vivino (look for "Seb Ch") if you want to be informed live about my latest tasting and ranking.
Hope you'll find these tasting notes interesting.
Seb
You'll find below some of the wines I tasted. As usual, most of the wines are bio/organic wines.
Special thanks: La Pinte (Arbois, France) and Zoeller (Alsace, France) wineries for their warm welcoming in their property and exceptional wine tasting. Big up to them!
There are coming from various places like Italy, Spain but mainly from France since I spent my vacations in there this year.
To make it more standardized, I copied and past my Vivino notes.
Reminder, follow me on Vivino (look for "Seb Ch") if you want to be informed live about my latest tasting and ranking.
Hope you'll find these tasting notes interesting.
Seb
Amalia - Carinena Macabeo 2014
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Seb Ch
http://www.lapinte.fr/boutique/melon-queue-rouge-2011
"18/20"
http://www.lapinte.fr/boutique/melon-queue-rouge-2011
"18/20"
Seb Ch
Vincent Caillé
French: http://www.biotifulwines.com/loiremuscadet.html
English:http://www.biotifulwines.com/GBloiremuscadet.html
Chinese: http://www.biotifulwines.com/CHloiremuscadet.html
"18/20"
French: http://www.biotifulwines.com/loiremuscadet.html
English:http://www.biotifulwines.com/GBloiremuscadet.html
Chinese: http://www.biotifulwines.com/CHloiremuscadet.html
"18/20"
Seb Ch
http://www.domainesaintnicolas.com/uk/?m=cuvee&c=6
"18/20"
http://www.domainesaintnicolas.com/uk/?m=cuvee&c=6
"18/20"
Seb Ch
Seb Ch
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
WSET Level 3 : Pass
Dear all,
I am glad to let you know that I manage to get the WSET level 3 qualification.
It was a great learning experience having the opportunity to learn from the pro's as well as taste wines from all over the world.
It's a highly recommended certification for any one of you that want to be consistent in your tasting and learn wine making from the main wine producing regions in the world and much more.
More info here: http://www.wsetglobal.com/qualifications/default.asp
Recall: follow me on Vivino to know about my last tastings. As always, wherever the wine is coming from I'll taste it!
Enoy your week
Seb
I am glad to let you know that I manage to get the WSET level 3 qualification.
It was a great learning experience having the opportunity to learn from the pro's as well as taste wines from all over the world.
It's a highly recommended certification for any one of you that want to be consistent in your tasting and learn wine making from the main wine producing regions in the world and much more.
More info here: http://www.wsetglobal.com/qualifications/default.asp
Recall: follow me on Vivino to know about my last tastings. As always, wherever the wine is coming from I'll taste it!
Enoy your week
Seb
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