Sober Curious

The term that describes people who want to scale back their drinking and make it a meaningful activity, rather than cut out alcohol entirely. For sober curious individuals, “mindful drinking”—a philosophy that encourages reflection and awareness while drinking—is the goal, rather than total abstinence. The term is thought to have been first used in New York and London sometime around 2016. Sober curious behavior is considered one alternative to Drynuary (giving up all wine, beer, and spirits during the month of January).

Sediment can appear in bottles of both red and white wines, although they tend to look slightly different. For older red wines, sediment is darker in color, while in older white wines sediment tends to be white.

Answer: False.

Sediment can only appear in older red wines. As red wine ages, color pigments in the wine combine with tannin to form long chains of molecules too heavy to stay in solution. Those molecules fall out of solution forming a sediment. The whitish, snowflake-like crystals that can sometimes precipitate out of white wines are called potassium bitartrate crystals, or just tartrates. These are flavorless crystals of acid that usually appear because of a quick and extreme drop in temperature of the wine.

13

The traditional number of grape varieties permitted to be used in Chateauneuf du Pape. Really, though, there are more than 13 because the red and white versions of varieties aren’t always listed independently (example: grenache… Continue reading

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