The flavor of smoke in wine of Južnoslovenská
Discover the of Južnoslovenská wines revealing the of smoke flavor during the olphactive analysis (nose) and during the gustative analysis (mouth).
The wine region of Južnoslovenská of Slovak Republic. Wineries and vineyards like the Chateau Belá or the Domaine Strekov 1075 produce mainly wines white, red and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Južnoslovenská are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Riesling and Pinot gris, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Južnoslovenská often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, slate or oil and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or microbio.
We currently count 32 estates and châteaux in the of Južnoslovenská, producing 188 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Južnoslovenská go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food.
How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...
The spirit was filled into a single ex-Sherry cask at the Speyside distillery in 1940, shortly before The Second World War forced The Macallan to close for the first time in its history. Bottled at 41.6% abv, only 288 decanters are available worldwide, featuring eye-catching packaging: a mouth-blown glass decanter sitting on a bronze sculpture of three hands, created by Scottish artist Saskia Robinson. The hands represent the distillery workers of 1940 who made the whisky; former Macallan chairm ...
Whisky is emphatically a product of place. The flavours in the glass conjure images of the spirit’s origin, from an Islay malt’s distinctive peat smoke to the exotic perfume of a Japanese blend. Traditionally, however, that local accent is lost when spirit is filled into cask. The vast majority of Scotch malts and blends, for example, are matured in oak sourced from thousands of miles away, and previously used to age bourbon or Sherry. Some whiskies might venture into more exotic territory. Thin ...