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Wine and Food Philosophy

A low alcohol content (or percentage) is an indication of a wine being sweet. A wine with an

alcohol content below 10.5% will probably have some residual sugar. The lower, the sweeter. So a

wine with 8.5% or 9% will be sweet. There are exceptions to this rule, of course, such as Sauternes

and fortified wines.

What happens in the sweet wine production is that fermentation is halted before the yeast gets to

eat all of the sugar in the grape juice. Thus

residual sugar

present in the resulting wine. So,

one desires a dry wine from a grape in which sweeter and dry versions exist such as Riesling or

Chenin blanc, just look at the alcohol content and you will always know.

Remember

the off-dry and moderatley sweet wines pair fantastically with spicy foods such as

Thai,

Chinese and Japanese.

Alcohol and Sweetness in Wine

Ros

is g

reat

for

summertime! Th

fabulous balance of fuller body (like a red) and refreshing

acidity

(like a white)

makes it a great wine to drink with all of the wonderful foods we associate

with

summer.

From outdoor grilling and BBQ

to sandwiches at a

picnic

to roasted chicken

candlelight

they

all pair

well

with Ros

é. Of course there are many different

styles of Ros

and it

helps to know a few basics. Fist thing we need to get straight is that Ros

dry

and a

Blush is

sweet

. Remember that the

alcohol content in the wine

(see above)

will help

you know for sure.

So how is Ros

made? Well, we

begin

with

ripe,

red grapes and as soon as we get

all the juice

out of them we seperate the skins

from the

juice. All of the

color comes from the skins

so naturally

some of the color gets into the juice during the pressing,

but unlike red wine production, Ros

wine

is fermented without the grape skins being present.

t is that bit of color

, however,

that give

s a

Ros

its

slightly fuller body and

to some extent

the lack of

color

that accounts for

its

acidity.

style of Ros

depends a lot on the grape it is made from.

All Ros

és are made from red grapes.

How & Why Rosé