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Drink This Now Blog _Chapter 1, Lesson 1: Why We Drink Wine with Meals and How Food Alters the Taste Perception of Wine

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For this lesson, I wanted to try a foreign wine and pair it to with food. I visited the Vintage Cellars where I get my weekly wine tasting and great wine recommendationsThe recommended wine ( although different from the DNT lesson 1 recommendations) is PSÂGOT, Cabernet Sauvignon from Jerusalem, Israel. Bottle (750ml), Price:  $28.39 After my first pour, I noticed a very dark red color. I then swirled and sniffed the wine a couple times before tasting the wine. The wine was dry and had some fruity smell and taste that I associated to cherries and blackberries. The wine was tannic and aggressive, although not as aggressive as the other cabernet sauvignon I usually taste. It had some earthy feel to it that made me think of the calcareous and desert like soil of Israel. After two hours, the wine had more pleasant aromas to senses. I could smell more floral  scents and the acidic-tannic flavor faded away a bit. This could be due to the fact that the wine had aged( oxidized) or I had
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Winery/Brewery visit

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 For Saint Patrick's Day (3/16/2024), I toured the local Eastern Divide Brewery. Saint Patricks' Day with classmates  It was great to see all the steps that go into making a beer product, and I was glad I could draw some similarities between winemaking and brewing.  The first step in brewing is "crushing," where the grains are crushed. Similarly, in winemaking, the grapes are crushed to free the juice in the grapes. In beer making, though, the grain is crushed to extract sugars in the form of starch.  Fig. 1 The inside of the vessel that mixes the crushed grains and hot water. The next step is called Lautering (mash conversion). Although in winemaking, the sugars are extracted by squeezing the juice out of the grapes, during the beer-mashing process, the milled grist is mixed with hot water to extract the starch in a sugar solution. A similarity I learned is that the time the mash is allowed to be in contact with water plays a significant role in the final product fla
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Bio/ Introduction

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  Hello all, My name is Bruce Furaha. I'm a senior in Chemical Engineering and a fan of good wine and bread. I like to learn about what makes good wine good, from the region where the grapes are grown to the techniques the wine is prepared with. I want to learn more about all things wine and connect with you all. Don't hesitate to reach out with some wine suggestions.  Cheers!
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Tasting- Escher Riesling

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  Name/ Winery:  Escher Haus Variety:  Riesling Region:   Rheinhessen Country:  Germany Year:  2022 Price:  $13 Winery/ Wine review:   Lavender and violet notes are lavishly floral against a backdrop of ripe, juicy peaches on this sunny off-dry wine. Zingy citrus acidity gives the palate backbone and a bracing finish. A great value wine to enjoy throughout the summer season. -Personal Wine Critic Score: 92 DTN Descriptors:  Lavender and violet notes are lavishly floral against a backdrop of ripe, juicy peaches on this sunny off-dry wine. Zingy  citrus acidity gives the palate backbone and a bracing finish. A great value wine to enjoy throughout the summer season. _ I could not agree more! My review:   This is my first Riesling! It is instantly one of my favorite white wine grape variety. It has a very unique aroma that's persistent after the sniff. This Riesling is fruity with some hints of honey, pears and peaches. It is very smooth to my palette. I'm very much looking forward
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First intentional wine tasting with friends.

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I'm excited that you landed on this page! Read along and find out what I think about wine. I'm learning a lot about wine lately, and I want to share everything from the colors, the aromas, and the tastes of wines I'm encountering along the way.  A night at The Wine Lab... I stopped at The Wine Lab with friends for my first intentional wine tasting.  My flight pick:  Slightly Sweet Flight. This is a 3 (75ml) pours flight from Italy.  Wine tasting with friends The first pour was a Rinaldi Moscato d’ Asti NV(non-vantage). This is a sweet white wine. The precise color is light yellow. This white wine has a gentle and fruity aroma (the wine wheel indicates a peach smell). The taste was divine. My second Poor was Gloria Strawberry Moscato, NV. This is a sweet rose with a pink light strawberry color. The intense aromas bring to mind a colorful floral spring. I found it to be too sweet for my palate, but luckily I had more glass to taste.  My last pour, a Rinaldi Redream Sweet Red
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