Customer Questions #6: Does this need to be decanted?
SOME ADVISE DECANTING EVERYTHING right down to the simplest white, but that's probably overkill.
Curious Customer Questions
Customer Questions #5: Is old wine better?
ONE OF THE BIGGEST myths around! The majority of today's wines are at their peak shortly after release. Whites, especially, don't take well to years of gathering dust in a drinks cabinet.
One-minute guide to Biodynamic wine
BIODYNAMIC VITICULTURE (<1% of the world’s vineyards) is a controversial approach to grape growing that is best understood as an enhanced (extreme?) form of organic farming, boosted by liberal additions of mystical sky-watching.
Food and Wine Matching 101
THE 'ART' OF FOOD AND WINE MATCHING is actually a relatively recent invention (1980s); before this most people unthinkingly drank local wines with local foods - and lived to tell the tale! But for whatever reason, today, it's an overly-prescribed area that can even create anxiety for some people.
Customer Questions #4: Why are wines so high in alcohol these days?
Alcohol has gone up, hasn't it? I'm not imagining it?No, you're not - wine alcohol-by-volume (ABV) levels have indeed crept up in the past couple of decades: 12% used to be standard for many red table wines; now that would be seen as anaemic, and 13%-15% is more typical.
Customer Questions #3: Is a big punt a sign of a good wine?
A WINE BOTTLE'S PUNT is that indent at the base of the bottle, the size of which varies across wines. The perception among drinkers is that a bigger punt equals better juice. Is this the case?Well, yes and no.
Customer questions #2 – Do you have any wines with no acid in them?
No, is the short answer. And if we did the wines wouldn't have a very long shelf life, and would taste unappetizing, dull and cloying. Acid is naturally present in all grapes, and most wines have a pH between 2.
Customer questions #1 – What does 'Roble' mean?
Someone asked this after spying the word on two of our floor-stacked wines, La Mano Bierzo Roble and Valtravieso Ribera del Duero Roble.