{"id":1492,"date":"2020-02-28T21:14:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T21:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2020-02-28T21:14:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T21:14:52","slug":"red-vs-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1492","title":{"rendered":"Red vs. White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In certain European corners of Wine Country, there are laws that determine what sort of wine can be made there.\u00a0 To use two examples near each other, in the Northern Rh\u00f4ne winemakers in Condrieu must only make white wine.\u00a0 Down the road a piece in Cornas, they are restricted to red wine and only Syrah at that.\u00a0 We Americans (and Australians and Sicilians, too) are more used to visiting wineries in our own country, where almost all make both red and white wines.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we at <em>Power Tasting<\/em> have a preference for red wine.\u00a0 We have been known to say, only half facetiously, that white wine is something to do with your hands at parties.\u00a0 But when we enter a tasting room, we are almost invariably offered a glass of Sauvignon Blanc or Chardonnay to begin our introduction to their wines.\u00a0 Should we go ahead and sip something we\u2019re less likely to enjoy or skip right ahead to the red wines?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/redwhite.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1493 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/redwhite-252x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/redwhite-252x300.png 252w, https:\/\/powertasting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/redwhite.png 592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photo courtesy of Bay Ridge Wine &amp; Spirits<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are good reasons for either decision.\u00a0 Among those in favor of trying the whites are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It\u2019s worthwhile to be open-minded.<\/strong> It\u2019s not as though we dislike white wines, we just don\u2019t like them as much.\u00a0 So if we try it, we might like it.\u00a0 After all, we do eat dinners of fish and salad, especially in the summer.\u00a0 It\u2019s a good idea to develop our noses and taste buds for the wines that go with those meals, too.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You learn a lot about a winery by sampling the complete range of a winemaker\u2019s art.<\/strong> If we are particularly enamored by, say, the Cabernet Sauvignon at a particular winery why not try the Sauvignon Blanc as well?\u00a0 We\u2019re pretty sure that the winemaker didn\u2019t consider it an afterthought.\u00a0 Care and attention go into all the wines.\u00a0 No one goes to a concert and listen only to the violins, so why leave out a part of what a winery has to offer?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Don\u2019t waste your precious alcohol capacity<\/strong>. If we are going to be tasting all day, we are going to take in a lot of alcohol.\u00a0 We have techniques to preserve sobriety (sharing, pouring out, sipping gently and others) but we \u2013 and everyone \u2013 need to be conscious of the risk and of our own level of intake.\u00a0 So if we know at the outset that we won\u2019t enjoy white wines as much as reds, there\u2019s a good reason not to add to the load.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The idea is to enjoy yourself<\/strong>. We go wine tasting for many reasons and education is indeed one of them.\u00a0 So if we do take some white wine, we are being broadminded and dutiful.\u00a0 But are we having fun?\u00a0 If the answer is \u201cno\u201d, then maybe it\u2019s not worth doing.\u00a0 It\u2019s <em>wine<\/em>, for Pete\u2019s sake, not spinach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As can be seen, there\u2019s no universally correct answer.\u00a0 We tend to go both ways, often with both white and red wine early in the day and only red as the shadows get longer.\u00a0 And of course if you favor white wines over reds, all the above applies in reverse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In certain European corners of Wine Country, there are laws that determine what sort of wine can be made there.\u00a0 To use two examples near each other, in the Northern Rh\u00f4ne winemakers in Condrieu must only make white wine.\u00a0 Down the road a piece in Cornas, they are restricted to red wine and only Syrah &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1492\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Red vs. White<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}