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Liquid Refreshment
Here at InterWined.com, we try to give everyone in the wine industry a fair voice. Our third edition of ‘InterWined In Conversation’ focused on the newly launched French wine for women range, Sublimelle.
The interview gave plenty of attention to the product designs, ideas, and marketing, while reserving any comment or criticism.
The makers of Sublimelle define […]
Last week, InterWined.com posted a video review of the 2004 Sauvignon Sol from the Fruili producer Ronco del Gnemiz as part of its submission to Wine Blogging Wednesday and vowed to get better acquainted the wines of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
So, when we saw some more Ronco del Gnemiz offerings on sale at Cadman Wines for £11 […]
When we were shooting our wine program in Spain, every night the crew would drink liter bottles of this local beer named Mahoo. They loved it, perhaps too much.
At any rate, if they were acting lazy during shooting, I used to yell, “Earn that Mahoo!” Meaning, if they didn’t shape up and get moving, they […]
Welcome to the third edition of ‘InterWined in Conversation’: Recorded live at the Wine+ Expo in London with our guest Yanis Taieb, CEO of the French wine export company Winesight, responsible for a new range of wine dedicated to women called Sublimelle.
To listen to the full 14-minute interview, be sure to click on the new InterWined Audio icon in the upper right-hand corner. Alternately, you can keep reading to find extracts from the conversation.
this Friday, InterWined brings you ‘Not So Impossible Food & Wine Pairing #1: Chips & Salsa’, a tip of the hat to Dr. Vino and his “Impossible Food Wine Pairings”.
In July 2007 Dr. Vino asked his readers to recommend a wine to serve alongside snack food staple and wine-pairing stumper Chips & Salsa; and at a tasting event yesterday evening, InterWined finally discovered the answer.
A panel of 12 wine experts helped identify each of the characteristics and four grapes (Touriga Nacional, Alfrocheiro, Castelão, and Cabernet Sauvignon) required to produce the 2006 Pink Elephant, Portuguese Rosé (£5 from Tesco and Morrisons).
And, while InterWined doesn’t yet know if it’s the perfect match for spicy foods, it knows that it is the absolute matchless match to Chips & Salsa, and among the only successful examples of wine by committee. Looking quite a bit like Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry Juice on first pour is a fair description of colour, but an insult to the quality of the wine. This isn’t juice. Sure, there’s raspberry on the nose, but the flavour is more tannic and peppery, with a just of little hint of petrol aftertaste. This is a decent Rosé, make no mistake. But, it’s not until the wine (served extremely chilled) is paired, that it becomes something more substantial and worthy of real praise.
For £5, you would be hard pressed to find a better wine to serve with a bowl of Chips & salsa or Sweet Chilli Kettle Crisps (it’s a very good match for that too), when entertaining guests or slumped on the couch in front of the telly. That probably wasn’t what the Bill Rolfe and Toby Hancock from 10 International, the wine company responsible for Pink Elephant, had in mind when they decided to find a wine to pair with spicy food. (In fact, they were specifically thinking curries.) But, the two of them should be proud, regardless. Finding a matchless match to an impossible pairing is no mean feat. On it’s own: 8.0; with Chips & Salsa: peerless.
When this site started around two years ago, Petit Verdot (the little guy in the Bordeaux grape blend) was making some inroads as a single varietal wine. In areas of Spain, it was going great; in other areas, such as Australia, it was kinda ho-hum.
Now, that the crazy Aussies are more distracted by blending Viognier […]
Despite British Invasion band The Zombies’ famous lyrics to the contrary, it’s never too late to say you’re sorry.
In fact, it’s about bloody time.
Take our first subject, Canada: We at InterWined.com have long suspected that it was the strange brew of jealousy and envy that drove the great majority of Canadians to settle within a […]
If you look at the wine merchants list at the bottom right of our site, you will find a ‘UK-Zelas’ tag for a wine shop on Archway road in London, whose wine credentials InterWined recently ‘investigated’. All in an honest day’s work.
Good news is, it checks out. Even better, the shop may have one of […]
For the theme of January’s Wine Blogging Wednesday, the hosts Jack and Joanne of Fork & Bottle chose the white wines of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
Running along the Austrian/Slovenian border in northern Italy, the region is renowned for the high calibre of its white wines; but, perhaps, in the UK it is best known as the birthplace […]
Scientists have genetically-modified carrots to make the vegetables a better source of calcium at the Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center at Texas A&M University. And, when humans eat it, they absorb more of the nutrients. Such tinkering is becoming common for wine grapes as well, though to what end it is not yet clear.
The GM […]
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