Choosing The Correct Wine
Friday lunchtime is fast approaching. This week seems to have been very long and busy.
However, the countdown is on to the weekend and that means a few bottles of my favourite wines.
Usually it’s a few bottles on Friday and Saturday nights and then just one bottle on Sunday. Regrettably on a Monday morning I have to be up bright and breezy ready for another hectic week at work.
I am still a bit of an amateur when it comes to choosing the right wine and I will admit to sometimes getting it wrong. I know every now and then I serve a white when it should be a red.
For Friday’s dinner I was contemplating serving up a nice piece of steak. To accompany this I think I should be choosing a nice Cabernet Sauvignon. However my predicament is I am an absolute lover of any sort of Shiraz, so perhaps I
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The Barossa is famous for its red wine and it is in this region where Shiraz reigns supreme. Large proportions of Barossa Shiraz is used in Penfolds Grange (Australia’s most famous wine). Henschke Hill of Grace also uses Barossa Shiraz for their wine.
The famous Barossa wine region is a little over an hour by car north of Adelaide, South Australia’s capital. Something that surprises many people is that the Barossa actually encompasses two regions – the Barossa Valley and Eden Valley.
Stretching all the way from Williamstown in the South all the way up to Kapunda in the north, the Barossa Vally covers quite a sizable area of land. The red-brown soils are more fertile than those of the Eden Valley but rainfall here can be up to 50% less. The temperatures in the Barossa are usually 2ºC warmer than the surrounding regions.
Eden Valley includes the country from Truro in the
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There are many types and varieties of wine available. For anyone wanting to try and match a great wine with a specific type of meal, then you can’t go wrong making your choice form one of the more popular varieties around.
Oh, and before we get started, if you love to try new wines, then you can’t go wrong with a wine of the month club, they’re fun and you’re always expanding your wine palate.
Let’s take a look at some of the more popular wine varieties:
Cabernet Sauvignon
Often abbreviated to the less-than-lovely name ‘cab-sav’, the flavorful cabernet sauvignon is a classic French wine that is one of the most widely recognized red wine varieties.
This well rounded red goes wonderfully with steaks and roasted lamb as well as being delicious on its own.
Merlot
Merlot is a very soft red which has a lower level of tannins than many other red wine
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