Jody Gomez Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Merlot without oak is like a salsa without spice. Just making an observation. To me, the wine is too simple to stand without having first been aged in oak barrels. Other wines can pull it off, but not Merlot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciro Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 The reason that wine is stored in wood barrel is because wood was an alternative to clay, and not because wine tested better in wood barrel . With wood, wine makers were able to create bigger containers, and thus more wine storage. When wine makers started to use Rearden’s metal, they had less worries about wine spoilage and a better control in delivering a perfect wine. The oak thing, I think, is only a popular believe. NB. I am talking exclusively of wines produced in large quantity , and not of wine produced by small wine makers whose methods of making wine is an art taught from generations to generations. My motto is; don’t drink the label, drink the wine!CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 When wine makers started to use Rearden’s metal, they had less worries about wine spoilage and a better control in delivering a perfect wine.Love it! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Kat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary williams Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Oak is the spice of life! Just ask Francis Coppola, Peter Munson, Giovanni Manetti, Armand Rousseau, Stephen Doyle, Nicolas Catena or Robert Mondavi. Or even Jack Daniels.To raise a "spirit" to it's potential, emerse it in oak!For a long time.Wait.Then...............Enjoy!gwp.s. Give Merlot a break. It is keeping an entire industry alive.Merlot libre! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 This ain't wine, but it sure looks interesting as all hell.(sigh)Ah, the poignant wistfulness of temperence...(Shaddap all of ya!)Read the article with picture on the linked title:Distillery to Revive 184-Proof Whisky(But here's the text just in case the link breaks one day. This is just too important to run that risk... )Distillery to Revive 184-Proof Whisky LONDON, Feb. 27, 2006(AP) A Scottish distillery said Monday it was reviving a centuries-old recipe for whisky so strong that one 17th-century writer feared more than two spoonfuls could be lethal.Risk-taking whisky connoisseurs will have to wait, however _ the spirit will not be ready for at least 10 years.The Bruichladdich distillery on the Isle of Islay, off Scotland's west coast, is producing the quadruple-distilled 184-proof _ or 92 percent alcohol _ spirit "purely for fun," managing director Mark Reynier said.Whisky usually is distilled twice and has an alcohol content of between 40 and 63.5 per cent.Bruichladdich is using a recipe for a spirit known in the Gaelic language as usquebaugh-baul, "perilous water of life."In 1695, travel writer Martin Martin described it as powerful enough to affect "all members of the body.""Two spoonfuls of this last liquor is a sufficient dose; if any man should exceed this, it would presently stop his breath, and endanger his life," Martin wrote.Reynier put Martin's test to the claim and consumed three spoonfuls."I can tell you, I had some and it indeed did take my breath away," Reynier said.Bruichladdich, a small privately owned distillery founded in 1881, plans to make about 5,000 bottles of the whisky, which Reynier estimated would sell for about 400 pounds (US$695, euro590) per case of 12 bottles. Although whisky lovers can place their orders now, the actual spirit will not be delivered for about 10 years."You get a better drink if you wait because of the basic oxygenation through the oak barrels," Reynier said.In the meantime, customers will be able to watch the whisky's progress on the distillery's webcams.MMVI The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary williams Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I am sorry.I saw something relating to 184 proof and went blind....and.....numb.....and..........;od0-w09a78g0k434o0a=.......i must go now.............gwp.s. - Amigo, perhaps you should take a big swig of......Kat!!!!!!!!!!!!!Temperence, my ass!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Gary,The sad sad sad sad sad truth is that I have done all I am gonna do with booze. I still like to smell certain alcoholic beverages and articles like this one strike my fancy and make me wish for a moment that I was active again.I have nothing against those who do drink as it is a wonderful pleasure for those who know how. (I don't.) In compensation, I can't feel too bad. I have more in my past than 5 heavy drinkers normally have in the sum of their entire lifetimes...When I get down, I go all the way down. There's nothing halfassed about it...Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary williams Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Amigo,On this matter, You must be the Oak.And, you are!You inspire me.gw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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