Today’s episode is an interview with Leo Schneenmann, the gentleman behind all the wines you can find in KG-NY Group famous restaurant and bars : Wallsé, Cafe Sabarsky, The Upholstery Store Wine Bar…
Today’s question is “Can we distinguish white wines from red wines when you are blindfolded?”.
Video sum up Can we distinguish white wines from red wines when you are blindfolded?
Jeremy’s challenge is to find a white wine from a red wine.
Vision is one of the sense used to judge and appreciate a wine. Jeremy found the white wine mostly thanks tannins.
If you are still not convinced have a look at these two videos:
Where the hell is the white wine? Jeremy’s challenge is to find a white wine among a total of four wines (3 reds and 1 white). Did he manage to find the white wine while blindfolded?
Today’s question is from Julie in Soho who asks us “What makes a wine a particular color?”. Send us your question and we will do our best to answer them: http://www.tellmewinetv.com/send-us-your-questions/
Video sum up: What makes a wine a particular color?
Although this question looks silly the answer is really complex.
Basically:
white wines comes from white grapes
red wines comes from red grapes
After a lot of other factors have to be taken into account:
The longer you live the skin of the grape in contact with the wine the darker the wine would become. For example: Rosé wines are red wine where grape skins have been exposed to wine only for a limited period of time.
Different grapes will give different depth of color. For example Viognier and Pinot Grigio give a very light color.
It also depends where the wine is aged: if the wine is aged in steel it will not add any additional color. But if the wine is aged in oak it will be darker.