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- 1. The Start of a Wine Journey Nadine Storey
- 2. Which studies are most relevant to wine? Geography Geology History Chemistry Plant Biology Human Biology Economics Sociology Business Studies Poetry/descriptive writing ENJOYMENT!!
- 3. What is wine? Grapes Yeast Wine Alcohol Water Residual sugar Carbon dioxide Flavour compounds Fermentation
- 5. Wine is like coffee... 87,000 drinks combinations in a Starbucks !!
- 6. What creates different flavours in wines? WINE Nature Human Skill Geography Soil Climate / weather Altitude Sunlight hours Slope Grape variety Vineyard management Irrigation Harvesting process Fermentation process Oak or stainless steel Blending
- 9. Get to know grape varietals Chardonnay Sauvignon Blanc Pinot Grigio Riesling Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot Shiraz Pinot Noir Grenache
- 10. Plenty more to explore... Malbec Tempranillo Sangiovese Pinotage Zinfandel Cabernet Franc Carmenere Mourvedre Carignan Nebbiolo Barbera Gamay Touriga Nacional Rondinella Molinara St Laurent Saperavi Graciano Chenin Blanc Semillon Albarino Grenache Blanc Muscat Gruner Veltliner Verdejo Fiano Gewurztraminer Marsanne Roussanne Trebbiano Cataratto Greco di Tufo Grecanico Cortese Aligoté Godello Aglianico Primitivo Dolcetto Durif Nero d’Avola Lagrein Marzemino Montepulciano Negroamaro Tannat Zweigelt Perricone Mavrodaphne Corvina Agiorgitiko Dornfelder Mencia Bobal Viognier Muscadet Picpoul Torrontes Colombard Fernao Pires Furmint Malvasia Falanghina Gros Manseng Petit Manseng Zierfandler Assyrtiko Grillo Pinot Blanc Vermentino Garganega Pecorino
- 11. A word about... Rosé Sweet Dry
- 12. Where is wine produced?
- 13. Old World = Europe New World = Everywhere else NB Apart from USA, all New World countries are Southern Hemisphere
- 14. Old World (Europe) France Italy Spain Portugal Germany Greece Eastern Europe >50% of global wine production Austria Turkey England Lebanon
- 15. Wine Tourism!
- 16. New World – Country/Grape • Sauvignon BlancNew Zealand • MalbecArgentina • CarmenereChile • Pinotage • Chenin Blanc South Africa • Shiraz • Chardonnay Australia • Zinfandel • White Zinfandel California
- 17. Old World – Country/Grape • RieslingGermany • Gruner VeltlinerAustria • Tempranillo • Garnacha Spain • Sangiovese • Pinot Grigio Italy • Varies by regionFrance
- 18. Wine Regions of France Loire Sauvignon Blanc Muscadet Chenin Blanc Cabernet Franc Bordeaux Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot Sauvignon Blanc/Semillon Languedoc Variety Modern Fruity Well priced Provence Pale elegant rosé Rhône Rich intense reds Rich whites Burgundy Pinot Noir Chardonnay Alsace Riesling Gewurztraminer
- 19. Sparkling Wine ProseccoChampagne Cava English Sparkling Wine Traditional Method Tank Method Chardonnay Pinot Noir Pinot Meunier
- 20. Sparkling Wines Champagne English Sparkling Wine Cava Prosecco BRUT / EXTRA DRY / DEMI-SEC
- 21. Quality & £££
- 22. How much does a bottle of wine cost? Record price for 75cl bottle $232,000 Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1869
- 23. How much does a bottle of wine cost? Record price for 75cl bottle $232,000 Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1869 Cheapest wine in UK today Aldi £2.99
- 24. Supply & Demand Harvest volumes Currency exchange rates Fashion Production limits Land cost Global demand Quality Investment Market £
- 25. What creates different flavours (and quality) in wines? WINE Nature Human Skill Geography Soil Climate / weather Altitude Sunlight hours Slope Grape variety Vineyard management Irrigation Harvesting process Fermentation process Oak or stainless steel Blending
- 26. How much is the wine in the bottle worth? £5 £10
- 27. Buying Wine – Some Tips Half Price wine – never worth the full price Good value price range: £8-£15 Cheaper countries right now: S. Africa, Spain, Chile Supermarkets Premium own-labels offer good value eg Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference Go to Majestic (min purchase 6 bottles) Fantastic, helpful staff Or find a friendly, local wine merchant
- 28. Buying Sparkling Wine – Tips Champagne – paying for the image £15 – stratospheric English Sparkling Wine £18-£30 Prosecco is popular and fashionable £7-£12 Cava £6-£12
- 29. What’s Trending? Popular right now Pinot Grigio New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc Rioja Malbec Prosecco Up & Coming Albarino New Zealand Pinot Noir Vinho Verde Picpoul Sherry
- 30. Food & Wine Matching No rules! Just guidelines: White wine: Salads, Fish, Seafood, Sushi, Oriental food, chicken Red wine: Red meat, rich dishes, pizza, pasta with tomato based sauce Sweet food needs sweet wine Locals know best eg Italian wine with Italian food Seafood – wine grown near the sea
- 31. Great Matches Safe Classics Oysters & Champagne Stilton & Port Goats Cheese & Sancerre Pizza & Chianti Spanish Tapas & Rioja Modern Matches Fish & Chips with Champagne Steak & Malbec Oriental Food & Riesling or Gruner Veltliner BBQ Meat & Pinotage or Zinfandel
- 32. Next Steps on the Journey www.winefolly.com www.tastetest.co.uk iPhone App – “Plonk” Join a Wine Tasting Club at university WSET (Wine & Spirit Education Trust) for courses
Editor's Notes
- Ripe grapes full of sugar. Yeast – sometimes just what is naturally in the winery (wild yeast) – more usually added to control things. Residual sugar – hardly any in dry wines – more in sweet. Carbon dioxide allowed to go – unless making sparkling wines. Over 200 aromatic flavour compounds in wine.
- People vary widely in the number of taste buds they have and therefore their inbuilt sensitivities to flavours. Over time, you can teach yourself to like certain things – but it is worth remembering we all have different natural preferences – and that is a good thing. There are no particular wines you should feel you have to like.
- We are all comfortable nowadays with choosing different styles of coffee.
- Infinite variations with wine. Infinite because each vintage (harvest) brings a new set of conditions.
- Fortified: Port, Sherry, Madeira – fortified means the fermentation is stopped with strong alcohol in the form of spirit. Different methods and different styles, dry through to super-sweet. Dessert wine is very sweet wine suitable for drinking either with dessert or even instead. Becoming popular in restaurants by the glass.
- The previous chart made things seem pretty simple – so how come it is so daunting when you are confronted with the “wall of wine” in a supermarket?
- Most common red and white varietals. Pay attention to these when you drink wine to start figuring out which ones you prefer.
- Not even an exhaustive list...
- Rose wine typically made from red grapes with minimal skin contact. The inside of a grape is always white. Some exceptions where white grapes are used and blended with some red wine – not allowed in most countries. Moscato is actually a white grape with a pinkish skin – so that is another exception.
- Close to 30 degrees, warmest, grapes ripen – produce fruitier, richer wines. Close to 50 degrees – so the farthest south in S. Hem and farthest North in N. Hem – colder, get more acidity, thinner wines but can be elegant and complex if the conditions are right in a given year and if the winemaking is skilled.
- New World: USA (90%+ is California); Chile; Argentina; South Africa; Australia; New Zealand. One day China will be big – you can see they have a lot of land on the right latitude. Already lots of planting – the birth of a new era in winemaking. They will develop quickly, pulling in existing expertise from around the winemaking world.
- France, Italy and Spain have centuries of winemaking experience. Big countries with lots of varied climatic zones.
- Winemaking areas are some of the most beautiful in the world. See if you can guess/work out which countries these are (answers at the end).
- Countries hanging their hat on specific varietals (even though they typically produce a wide range). Worth tasting these as a lot of expertise. NB White Zinfandel is a rose wine made from the same red Zinfandel grapes that make a red wine.
- French wines traditionally do not name the varietals. Nowadays, they are starting to for export markets like the UK who find it helpful. If not on the front, it may be on the back.
- Traditional (aka Champagne) Method has a second fermentation in the bottle. Extra yeast and sugar added, carbon dioxide trapped in the bottle. The wine spends time in contact with the “lees” (dead yeast cells) which gives typical champagne flavour characters (toast, creaminess, brioche). The plug of dead yeast cells is eventually isolated near the neck, frozen and quickly ejected out. The bottle is quickly stoppered to keep the carbon dioxide inside. Tank method – simpler, quicker, cheaper process. Gives fresh, fruity results. NB Cheapest sparkling wines will be carbonated just before bottling, just like fizzy drinks. Cava traditionally made from local grapes – more recently permitted to use Chard and P Noir – and personally think results are better.
- BRUT = totally dry (no detectable sweetness) EXTRA DRY = a bit sweeter DRY = actually noticeably sweet DEMI-SEC = definitely sweet
- Which of these is the best value?
- That poor bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild will never be opened and drunk now. The wine may have been fabulous at some point but will be way past its best now (Bordeaux can last 50 years in bottle but not 150 years. Its value now is all about rarity and being a collector’s item. Global demand – the big issue now is China. Huge population, just getting interested in drinking wine – and will pay more so eg Australian producers restricting their wine exports to Europe (or putting the price up) as favouring export to China.
- Coming back to this chart that I showed early on in the presentation – remember what we said about what creates differences in wine? Basically the more perfect the geographical location and the more manual, slow, painstaking the human intervention – it will result in higher quality.
- £5 bottle of wine – the actual wine is worth about 10p About £2.50 value of wine in the £10 bottle At £20 RSP, value of wine is about £8.
- Choose English sparkling wine for special occasions – patriotic, more reliably good quality than cheaper champagnes (as English winemakers have had to work so hard to build a reputation from scratch in just the last few years; the champenois can rest on their laurels unless they are a famous name), easier to make a decision in a store (only 1 or 2 to choose from and all will be good).
- Sherry – one of under-rated wines. Not cream sherry which granny might drink. Look for Fino, Manzanilla, Oloroso.
- Brut Champagne and wedding cake is a hideous match (the only way this can work is with a really sweet sparkling wine).
- Clockwise from top left: France: Famous square in St Emilion (Bordeaux) Germany: Super steep vineyards sloping down to the river. Italy: Tuscany Argentina South Africa Australia (the kangaroo is a clue!). ANY QUESTIONS?