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September, 2005 |
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It's Winemaking Time!
We have also updated our Clickabrew shopping site. It's easier to navigate and more eye appealing. Make sure to drop by and have a look. This is winemaking season so we have plenty of new stuff to offer. RJ Spagnols has just released information on their Restricted Quanity Kits for 2006 and Winexpert will be releasing their Selection Limited Edition varieties in early October. Please visit our Brewery Lane Web Site now for updates and all the late-breaking news. Bill Reddy Make Something Spéciale! Selection Spéciale ITALIAN AMARONE(ah-maw-row-nay) Style: Few wines are as bold as Amarone. Made in the Veneto region of Northern Italy, this specialty wine is produced alongside Valpolicella, a usually medium bodied blend of Corvina, Molinara and Rondinella grapes. Italian Amarone takes the same raw materials and makes them into a treasured, powerful red table wine. The finest Amarone grapes come from bunches that have two well spaced clusters sticking out to allow the sun to ripen the whole bunch evenly. The secret lies in fragrant, perfectly ripe grapes and how they’re treated. During the harvest a portion of the grapes are diverted from the crusher and set aside to dry on straw mats, eventually turning into extremely sweet raisins. When they’re added to the fermenting wine, they explode into new activity, driving the alcohol content up and increasing the colour, flavour and aroma to dizzying heights from the extra skin material. Winexpert Selection Spéciale Italian Amarone is a very intense and complex wine, with a wide array of flavours and aromas. Deep ruby red, this heavyweight wine exudes aromas of sour cherries, dark chocolate, stewed plums, dried fruits, anise, raisins, bitter almond, tobacco, leather and molasses, and has a spicy-earthy bittersweet finish that lengthens on indefinitely from the huge volume of tannins. Delightful with food, Italian Amarone is often enjoyed by itself, sipped outside of mealtimes with good conversation and good friends. Food pairings: Intensely flavoured roasts, game and grilled meats, pasta with rich meat sauce, osso buco, or chunks of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese—or perhaps a fine cigar! Ageing: While the intense fruitiness combines with powerful tannins to make this appealing to drink right away, only after a year of age will the heady perfume of dried fruits and spiciness come out. After two years it will begin to develop the pungent, earthy richness so prized by collectors of fine Italian wine. Vino del Vida World Tour Additions Two new kits have been added to the Vino del Vida World Tour series of wine kits. Be sure to try the new Australian Chardonnay and the California White Merlot. The 9 Litre Vino del Vida World Tour kits have been winning approval from winemakers since their release last year. These new additions are sure to become favourites.
You Asked Us How do I preserve left over wine once the bottle is opened? As soon as you open a bottle of wine it is exposed to air. This can cause deterioration of the flavour fairly quickly so some steps have to be taken to preserve the wine. The best method is to decant the wine into a smaller bottle, recork it and refrigerate it. This will preserve your wine for a week or longer. Another method is to use a vacuum pump to remove the oxygen. These are inexpensive gadgets available at our stores. You just attach the special cap provided and pump out the oxygen. You can then refrigerate the bottle with the special cap intact. Your wine will last for at least a week using this method with no noticeable deterioration of flavour. Release
That Gas! One thing that I have learned from the years of making my own wine is that removing as much of the carbon dioxide gas as possible is very important. If there is too much gas left in the wine it becomes very difficult to clear. Your wine will also have a disagreeable odour and taste. Bottling a wine containing excessive carbon dioxide gas is asking for trouble. Your wine will taste sharp and bitter with unpleasant aromas. Here are a few tips that you can use when you make your next batch of wine.
• Always make sure that you ferment your wine at a temperature between
22º to 25º Celsius. Remember that the less gas present in your wine, the easier it will clear and the better it will taste. Wild Berry Additive Kits Harvest time is here with an abundance of fruit and berries. Want to try your hand at making blueberry or plum wine? Try one of our easy-to-use Wild Berry Add Packs. Available for many different types of fruit. Includes instructions and all of the additives required to make 5 gallons of wine. You supply the fruit, sugar and grape base. Outstanding wines in just 6 weeks. You'll be amazed! Missed an Issue? View our archived issues at: http://www.clickabrew.com/newsletters.html. |
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