Jun

Wine with Wine

Jacob Gaffney in Red Wines, Grenache, White Wines, Chenin Blanc, Châteauneuf du Pape 2005, Argentina, France, Rhone, South Africa, Vida Organica

Well, the new site is up!

Let’s hear it for the editor InterWined.com and his Web gurus! Clap; they are watching us…

Now that InterWined has some help, and a team of specialists pouring over past posts, one comment in particular deserves InterWined’s attention:

“You are a three grape guy.”

A three grape guy? Apparently InterWined spends much too long swirling Cabernet Sauvignon.

White wines? According to the Grape Search are grossly underrepresented.

So InterWined vows to be an equal-opportunity drinker from now on. InterWined.com is an everyman blog; therefore InterWined shall try every wine.

This is not an easy task:

Following the comment, InterWined gulped some 2005 Vida Organica Chenin Blanc (£7) from Argentina and can write a book about this one wine.

Atypical for a Chenin Blanc, found in white wines from the Loire Valley in France (red wines from Loire are usually 100% Cabernet Franc), the Vida Organica does not have that dry, neutral zip of a Loire, nor the chalk-like structure. Instead, it’s fatter and greasier — a bit of dry melon and kinda sweet. Best on its own: 8.4.

InterWined also sprung for a bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape. It cost £13; but, hey, it can have up to thirteen different grapes by law, so that helps catch InterWined up in its new quest to try every wine grape.

These wines — from the Rhone in France — are usually about 80 to 90 percent Grenache, which has many spellings, so the editor noted.

The wine was thin and rusty, so we won’t dwell on specifics. But, in an interesting side note, the wine paired extremely well with the bottle of Chianti that InterWined was also drinking at the time. InterWined thinks that pairing wine with wine is an under-represented idea, so expect more on that.

For instance InterWined would suggest a nice South African Sauvignon Blanc to go with that Chenin Blanc from earlier.

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