Wine Occasion: Dinner Party / Housewarming Party
We can all agree that the only possible gift to bring to a dinner party is a bottle of wine. Anything short of that just won't cut it. How about a bottle of Jack Daniels?
Warm, warming
Usually refers to a wine of high alcoholic strength but may also describe a simple wine made from warm-weather grapes.
Watery
a visual description, very pale, clear as water. As a flavor description, lacking in taste and color.
Warming Up to Reds
by Felicia M. Sherbert
The temptation to reach for a cool glass of white wine to quench a summer thirst is understandable, and in fact it is a reflex action for some people.
Warming the end of the bottle may help when pulling the cork out. Don't get the bottom too hot however, the extra heat may cause the bottle to explode.
edit Warnings ...
A warming trend in the climate of the Great Lakes region could increase Michigan vinifera productivity and lead to a higher profile for Michigan wines.
Global Warming and Wine
(Adapted from Mark Hertsgaard's forthcoming book Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty
Years on Earth. Mark has written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, and The Nation.) ...
As a housewarming gift, or holiday offering, wine gift baskets make a great gift. There's so much more to wine consumption than a bottle of wine resting in a basket of raffia, however.
The Loire has traditionally been regarded as the northern limit of viticulture, but with global warming this view may quickly become outdated.
After all, as soon as you take a too-cold wine out of the fridge, it will automatically start warming up! The idea that red wine is served at room temperature is an old one whose genesis was before the advent of central heating.
Global warming is showing a minimal effect in reducing the size of the snow-cap and glacier size in the high Andes. In the south, in Patagonia, Argentina, Rìo Negro is warming slightly also.
It also helps warming up the wine. With the neck of the bottle immediately above the candle, pour the wine slowly but steadily into the carafe without causing any backward flow even when sediment is approaching the neck.
Wine with a high alcohol content, warming
Heavy :
Wine lacking in finesse, strong in alcohol and tannins ...
CAPITEUX
Wine with a high alcohol content, warming
CAPSULE
The protective covering over the cork and neck of a wine bottle ...
Not cold compared to Minnesota, but cold compared to most parts; it's about 12 degrees right now, negative 15 with the wind chill. Appropriately, I'm warming up a bowl of homemade chili (turkey and bean). And I've decided to open up a bottle of .
Therefore, winemakers will always attempt to restart stuck ferments by either warming the wine and/or by adding more yeast.
As global warming has increased the number of warm vintage years, the possibility of creating varietal Cabernet in Bordeaux has also increased, making the decision to blend based more on ideology and tradition.
 See also: Wine, Region, White, Fruit, Rough
  
|
RSS
