24/07/2024
Who knows the wine word MACERATION? Here i have a Tempranillo Rioja Blanco. Tempranillo is a red wine grape that typically produces RED WINE. But every now and then, someone makes a white one. HOW?? Well, MACERATION (or in this case, a lack thereof) is the reason.
Most red wine grapes have white flesh. The color of the wine comes from the grape skins. MACERATION is the process of soaking the grape flesh with the skins to produce the red juice/wine. The longer the maceration process, the deeper the color. For instance, rose' wines have very little skin contact/maceration. Thus resulting in the wine being pink. For this wine, there was obviously no maceration. Therefore creating a white wine from a red grape. Pretty cool, huh?
Anyway, this wine paired well with my dinner. It wad medium-full bodied, dry, with flavors of lime and apricot. I'm not sure what the alcohol content was. But it tasted like maybe 13%.
