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http://indietravelpodcast.com Drinking the sicilian Wine Nero d’avola from the nero d’avola grape. At the Bristol Food and Wine Festival, UK, 2010.

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Want to know the perfect white wine to pair with a meal? Check out this Must Love Wine episode to find out which white Wines are perfect pairs for certain foods.

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Really, what is the difference between red wine and white wine because they all taste the same to me. What kind of Wine do you like?

Not only do white wine and red wine taste different….but the different varietals of white and red wines taste different as well. However, if you don’t notice any differences, don’t worry about it. If you like the wine, drink it. That’s is the most important thing. (Likewise, if you don’t like the wine, pour it out!)

If you want to know typical flavors found in different types of wine, visit this website: http://www.cheers2wine.com/food-and-wine.html

we have taylor port wine (or something like that) in our fridge, and it says its dessert wine.
whats the difference in, uh not dessert wine, and that.
is it harder to catch a buzz off of or something?

Desert Wines are sweet. What you have is a "fortified" desert wine, which means that brandy was added to stop fermentation before all of the sugar was converted to alcohol. Fortified wines are usually 20% alcohol or 40 proof.
Other desert wines can be anywhere from 6.5% up to about 14%. There is no brandy added and the grapes that were used were extremely high in sugar. One of the most famous is Chateau d’Yquem. This is a Sauternes wine from France and is expensive.
Some German wines are extremely good as well such as the Trockenbeerenauslese made from the Riesling grape which is also expensive.
Eiswein is a wine made from grapes that are frozen then pressed to extract the concentrated juice.

Regular table wines range in alcohol from 6.5% to 14% and are fermented dry (no residual sugar) to semi-dry that has a little sugar left. They are best with meals or snacks. They are normally white, rose’, or red. The difference comes from the way the wine is produced and the grape it’s made from.

Champagne or sparkling wine is a different animal that has an additional step of retaining the CO2 in the wine that’s produced during fermentation and results in a wine that bubbles like a soda. These wines are refreshing and can be drank by themselves or with food.

Hello.

I’m 26 years old and aside from a taste here and there, I’ve never had a drink in my life. For me, the taste of alcohol is quite bad, to say the least. But lately the idea of drinking wine has become more and more appealing. Sitting outside at the terrace late in the evening with good friends and a bottle of wine seems like a nice way to enjoy life. The taste of wine is so horrible though!

Aside from drinking lots and lots of wine, what can I do to improve my palette?

Thanks a lot of any and all answers!

You are going to get a thousand answers from a thousand people on what is a good wine. The only way you can decide is from experience because we are talking about personal taste.

First. Learn about what types of Wines are out there. When you try out a wine, make note of the type and make (label). Give it a mental grade (1 to 10) and compare it to subsequent ones you drink. Part of the culture of wine drinking is learning about the history of certain wine and their makers. This is not a requirement, but you may find it interesting.

Second, there is a way or method to drink wine and I do not mean this in terms of ritual. The taste sensory cells (taste buds) in your mouth, tongue, and nose is what gives you the sense or feel of the wine. The various sensory cells are located in different areas. For example, salt and sweet sensors are located on the front of the tongue, but sour sensors are on the sides. The bitter sensors are towards the back of your tongue. All this is in regards to an adult because all this tends to be in flux during childhood and adolescent. When you drink wine, you want the wine to flow around from the front towards the back while trying to get as little as possible on the back of your tongue (bitter sensors). Just don’t choke trying to manuever the wine around your mouth

You also want to before and after breathe in a whiff of the aroma through your nose to flood the sensors in your nose. There are experts in wine who claim that the nose is more sensitive than the taste buds, but I’m not an expert so take that for what it is.

Third, drink it slow and in small amounts. Don’t gulp it down unless you are in a hurry to get drunk. And try it with a light meal or snack — to see how it compliments different foods AND keep your drinking pace slow.

Lastly, don’t let so-call tradition stop you from trying things out. You may have heard the so-call rule that red wine is for meat and white wine is for fish or seafood, but that’s just plain bunk. This is propagated by people who simply repeat what they have heard and don’t understand. White wine tends (not all) to be lighter in flavor and so can be overwhelmed (covered) by food that has a strong taste. Red wine tends to be more robust in aroma and taste, so is not likely to be erased by the taste of strong flavors in some foods. So, the moral of the story is try it before you make a decision.

Enjoy.

You hear of putting red Wine cooking sauce or white wine cooking sauce on food. What would happen if you didn’t cook the wine cooking sauce and drank it like you would regular wine? If I just took a bottle of red or white wine cooking sauce, and poured a glass, would I be drinking alcohol? What would happen to me? Would it be bad for me?

It won’t hurt you but it made my girlfriend throw up when she did it.

I believe I have recently developed an allergy to wine and beer. Hives form after a glass. I don’t drink very often, but do enjoy Wine or beer occasionally and would like to still be able to have some. Is there something I can do to prevent the hives, itching, swelling that comes with it? I have been enjoying wine and beer for years, and only just recently started having this problem.

That’s a tough question. I suffer from allergies myself, and I have reactions to certain red wines-they give me terrible hangovers even if I only drink a glass.

I would advise you NOT to take an antihistamine, since it tends to make you drowsy-it will probably intensify the effects of the alcohol.

If you really and truly enjoy the taste of wine and beer, then go to an allergist and see if they can run a prick test on you to find out which ones cause you the most problems. I would try white wine, since it has a much lower level of histimines (red wine is high in histamines!) and it might be easier on your system.

Another thought: an allergist once told my sister to think of allergy tolerance like a bucket. If you are avoiding other allergens and aren’t having any other reactions, then you’ll probably have fewer problems with one glass of beverage, (think of it like a single drop in the bucket) but if you are already reacting to something else, that one last drop in the bucket will make it overflow-your reaction will worsen.

Also consider organic beverages-it may be residue from a chemical or pesticide which is the source of your allergy. You can get these at Whole Foods and similar supermarkets and whole foods stores.

I have a delicious blush wine made from Muscadine grapes that I bought at a local Winery I visited recently. I bought a case and love to drink it but wanted to experiment with it as well. Is it ok to use a kind of sweet wine to cook with? I was thinking maybe a creamy garlic wine sauce with pasta??? Any other suggestions?

Dry white wines are much better. I’d stay away from cooking with Blush at all costs. It would probably be a big waste of food!

It’s common sense that red Wine goes well with red meat and white wine goes well with fish.

But what happens if I eat fish with red wine or eat steak with white wine?
Is it bad for health?
Or is it just because such combinations aren’t as good as the recommended combinations in terms of taste?

Nothing happens, you can drink what you want. The recommendations are because some wines just taste better with different foods. Likewise, the foods will taste better with certain wines.
For example, most people would not like to eat a dill pickle with their ice cream — they don’t really go together well.

http://www.WineCountryWorld.com – Free guide to World of Wine – Discover the wealth of information in labels, How to collect and How to store your wine -food and wine – wine experts

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