Let’s Talk Turkey! To decant or not to decant that is the question!Ask The Wine Ladies December 2012

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Dear The Wine Ladies,

We have been invited to my month-in-laws for Thanksgiving dinner, and I would like to surprise her with a decanter as a gift. She is just getting into wine and I thought she might enjoy this surprise instead of flowers or chocolates.

Would I be able to find one that would fall into my limited budget of around $35-$50? I’d like to share a few words of wisdom with my gift as well, if you wouldn’t mind offering a few tips it would be greatly appreciated.

Should all red wines be decanted and what are the main reasons for decanting?

Jack

New York, New York

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Air Cork The Wine Preserver, Its fun and it works!

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Do you ever have just a glass or two of wine?Wonder will it still be just as good the next day?
You need the Air Cork.
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Why it Works:

Air Cork is intuitive, simple, and easy to use. It just plain works.
It provides an airtight seal no matter how much wine is left in the bottle.
You can see that it’s working from outside of the bottle.

No more of these annoying work-arounds:

  • NO MORE: Pumping to try to create a ‘vacuum’ and losing beautiful aromatics.
  • NO MORE: Gas on or in your wine.
  • NO MORE: Pouring into smaller bottles to try to eliminate excess air.
  • NO MORE: Freezing and thawing wine.

AIR CORK $26.95

AIRCORK $26.95

 

Oprah and The Wine Ladies 2012 Top Pick, the CORKCICLE, for perfectly chilled wine every time.

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It keeps your chilled whites at perfect drinking temperatures. It keeps your lighter chilled reds at perfect drinking temperatures. And it even brings those heavier room temperature reds down to more suitable drinking.

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Robert Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 Napa Valley.

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Robert Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 Napa Valley…  “Godfather of the California wine movement” and the ‘King of grapes” reign victorious with this wine. 

Bold, yet supple, elegant, with velvety tannins, the wine is concentrated and rich with blackberry and cassis, combined with spicy oak elements and slight toasty oak. There is a bright acidity and a lengthy finish. www.robertmondavi.com

The late Robert Mondavi is considered the godfather of the California wine movement having founded his winery in 1966, his dream was to create excellent Napa Valley wines that would stand up to the great wines of the world. Now close to half a century later his life long dream has been realized with iconic Napa Cabs winning top awards around the world.

TO KALON VINEYARD, Planted originally in 1868

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Modus Marvels… Ruffino Modus 2008 IGT Toscana leaves us smacking our lips

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Beautiful elegant wine, lush with silky tannins elicits oohs and ahhs as our impromptu gathering of friends sip away and break bread with a healthy wedge of gorgonzola and some sausage.

Modus is a blend of Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, the typical trio to make up a Super Tuscan. This wine Modus, is so named due to the care taken in each varietal being individually picked when ripe and aged in small oak barrels. The result, a mouthful of plum, cherry, a touch of chocolate and with vibrant acidity and lively finish.

The label of Modus represents a modern interpretation of a historical property  “The property  “The rose of the winds is intertwined with the elements which form the soul of a great wine; the vine, the sun, the soil, the life, the time, the fruit, the manner, the wine”http://www.ruffino.com/pagine/pagina.aspx?ID=Poggio_Casci001&L=EN

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Happy Holidays Commercial Corkcicle Icebags

Great Gift Ideas For The Wine Lover

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No fuss, holiday shopping made easy, awesome wine and food accessories available at every price point, delivered straight to your door.

We customize your order, we ship anywhere in the USA and Canada.

Choose from an array of award winning gift ideas, gadgets and wine accessories.

We’ve got your holiday gift giving covered, something for everyone.

The Wine Ladies online store is exciting, affordable and makes your shopping as easy as 1-2-3!

 

Happy Holidays everyone!

Georgia and Susanne

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Ask The Wine Ladies…Are wine diamonds a girl’s best friend?

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Dear Wine Ladies,

At a recent dinner party I attended the hostess noticed a small amount of sediment.It  looked like tiny pieces of glass at the bottom of a bottle of white wine from Germany. I was a little hesitant to drink the wine. However, one of the guests assured us the wine was fine and there was no cause to worry. What were those little pebble-like stones and are they really harmless?

Jennifer, New York

Dear Jennifer,

Those pebble-like stones you are describing are commonly referred to as “wine diamonds” or weinstein which literally translates to “wine stones” in German speaking countries. What exactly are they and how did they end up at the bottom of the bottle? These wine diamonds are actually harmless crystalline deposits that naturally separate from wines during fermentation and aging. Potassium acid tartrate, the potassium salt of tartaric acid is the major component of this sediment. The presence of tartaric acid, along with malic acid are very important in wine making as they help provide good structure, fruit flavours, crispness on the palate and an increased lifespan of the wine.

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The majority of winemakers today recognize that the consumer is alarmed or put off by the presence of these crystalline deposits. They however are harmless. Rather than educating the public, many wineries employ a process called “cold stabilization” prior to bottling. This involves chilling the wine to just below zero degrees causing the potassium bitartrate to crystallize. The wine is then filtered and bottled. Having the wine undergo this process prior to leaving the winery assures a clean filtered wine with no sediment. In cases where the wine does not undergo cold stabilization at the winery, this precipitation of the tartrate could happen during cold weather transport or cold storage conditions.

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