Monday, April 28, 2014

What makes good cider good

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What silly that I have not kept the first Georgian wine I ever drank. My tasting notes I got it from a friend who is married to a Russian woman. They now live in Germany, but in Amsterdam they often bought all kinds of delicacies in the Russian shop BLIN BLIN БЛИН Plantage Kerklaan.
The wine gave me a whole new wine experience. There were some rough edges, but what a flavor, complexity and power. I sent an e-mail an enthusiastic report to that friend and his Russian wife. Unfortunately, that email I lost it. Therefore
It was probably a Qvevri wine, so very differently he was. If I remember the shape of the bottle recall correctly, it must have been Tblivino winery, a wine tasting because during this week at the Hilton Hotel in The Hague, I recognized the bottle shape that this winery uses. It's not so easy to see, but I mean the fourth bottle in the picture. Behind the bottle Theo Jansen GeoDev that wine imports from this winery.
The wine in the picture - Rkatsiteli 2011 from winery Tbilvino 49393 - I found in The Hague, the tastiest Rkatsiteli (white grape) of the series. It also turned out to be the (approximately 3, - trade price) to be the cheapest. Mineral, slightly smoky aroma and a fruity / floral flavor with some nuts, fine acidity and a dry, fairly long finish. To be clear: this is a modern fruit-made wine - a growing segment in Georgia - not the Qvevri wine that fifty years ago, my first Georgian wine experience anxious. 49393
I have not seen Qvevri-wine Tblivino in The Hague. However, numerous other wineries. Qvevri wine is made in large earthenware jars that were buried in the ground. The grapes go into their whole Qvevri, then there is hardly intervened. The wine fermented (spontaneous, natural yeasts) as red wine on the skins and continues for months the peel in the jar. I quote the website 49393 importer GeoWine:
"In the Qvevri (sometimes large enough to accommodate an adult) are harvested grapes - with peel and seeds and all - stirred 49393 days. This fermentation process can take up to forty days. Eventually the wine creates a layer of grape residue. Then go to spring lids on Qvevri. During this process, the grapes remains sink to the bottom of the filter 49393 Qvevri and naturally the wine. When the wine "liberated", he is crystal clear and ready to drink. "
When the fermentation is done with the whole grape rather 49393 than just the juice, then in Georgia they say that the wine "is fermented with the mother." Just as a baby gets its nutrients 49393 from his mother, so get Qvevri wines by the Georgians their nutrients and character of the flesh and skin of the grape.
Sometimes the 'microbiological flavors "make if I may call them that too much of a risk. The One of the Qvevri wines tasted in The Hague candidly to red cheese. A pinch of cheese aroma may be acceptable. You can find them sometimes in old Vin Doux Naturel from the Roussillon. Rancio they call it there. It's like the wild yeast Brettanomyces, which in some wine makes for peasant or animal aromas. But it must remain within bounds.
My favorite Qvevri wine in The Hague was Alaverdi Monastery Cellar Rkatsiteli 2010. This wine is made by monks (since 1011). Fascinating wine. It smells tawny port or long matured Rivesaltes Ambre and tastes very dry and tannic, with flavors of rhubarb and orange (peel). A flavor profile which cooks and gourmets should 49393 get special dishes to remember. Sense in
There are to my knowledge 49393 are two importers of Georgian 49393 wine in Netherlands: GeoDev and GeoWine. Theo Jansen (GeoDev) is active with the wines from this former Soviet 49393 state for many years. 49393 He has even the title of Honorary Citizen of Georgia to blame. Three years ago Gea Teerink started GeoWine, she runs together with the Georgian Dutchman Michael Agniashvili.
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