Wine is Always the Answer.
March 22, 2012
Jacob’s Creek Winery Adds Kangaroo Cruelty to its Repertoire.
March 21, 2012
Wildlife volunteers have stated that 23 kangaroos used by award-winning Jacob’s Creek winery to bring in tourists, were found in what they believed to be a malnourished state. Some were so apparently neglected that they were in “shocking” pain from untreated injuries.
Jacob’s Creek, owned by French company Orlando Wines, is one of Australia’s best-known international brands, and just recently won the Australian Tourism Award for best tourism winery.
Volunteer group Fauna Rescue said that Jacob’s Creek approached it last year to find the kangaroos at its Rowland flat winery a new home. The group’s kangaroo expert Kerry Colmer said the winery “enquired” if Fauna Rescue could find the animals a new home before the end of the year and she claimed a winery representative then told her if they weren’t relocated the company would “shoot” them.
Posted in News | Tagged Australia, Jacob's Creek, South Australia | Leave a comment //Sex-Starved Flies Turn to Alcohol, Study Shows.
March 21, 2012
A new study has shown that sex-deprived fruit flies are more likely to drink excessive amounts of alcohol than their sexually satisfied counterparts.
It’s one of those studies that raise the question: Who does this kind of research?
“This was just a wild experiment to do,” lead researcher Galit Shohat-Ophir acknowledged in a report in the journal Science. But she said the study yielded dramatic results that could shed light on the brain mechanisms involved in social interactions and addiction.
Posted in Funny, News | Leave a comment //Hubert Brochard, Sancerre, Loire Valley, France.
March 20, 2012
Wine: Hubert Brochard
Place: Sancerre, Loire Valley, France.
Price: $18’ish
A Guide to Wine Faults – Cloudiness / Haziness
March 20, 2012
Cloudiness / Haziness
All wine starts off cloudy, that’s a fact. During winemaking and after the grapes are pressed, the juice is fermented, and the wine is run off the skins, stems, pips et al., therefore there’s plenty of smaller particles left behind. Wine is generally allowed a period of rest, to allow this sediment to settle, however this only does so much. Winemakers must filter and fine a wine (to different degrees depending on the winery/winemaker preference) to give it the clear appearance most consumers are looking for. It’s worth noting that the process of fining is achieved by adding fining agents to a wine which may include egg whites, bentonite (a form of clay), casein (derived from milk) and isinglass (derived from the bladders fish).
Personally, I like a red wine with a slight cloudy appearance, it just means the wine has gone through less filtration than other wines. Over-filtration can reportedly strip it of a huge portion of its flavor, but an excessive amount can be a problem. I have to say “reportedly” as I’ve never tasted the same wine with varying levels of fining/filtration applied. I can only guess…
Posted in Facts | Tagged A Guide to Wine Faults, Cloudy wine, Filtering wine, Fining wine, Hazy wine, Unfiltered, Unfiltered wine | Leave a comment //Decanting Wine vs. Aerating Wine – What is the Difference?
March 18, 2012 Posted in Facts | Tagged aerating wine, Aerator, best wine aerator, Decanting, Soiree wine aerator, the difference between decanting wine and aerating wine | Leave a comment //← Older posts Newer posts →
