blue wine [Booze]
2016 Jun 17
Ugh
"The 11.5 percent ABV juice is hued neon blue with anthocyanin (a pigment found in grape skin) and indigo (a dye extracted from the Isatis tinctoria plant), and a non-caloric sweetener is added as well."
Orange wine is a totally different beast. The orange hue comes from skin contact where the skins are left in the grape juice after pressing. Generally speaking, there is very minimal/no chemical intervention with orange wines. So not the case in the blue wine.
You can find some Italian orange wines in SAQ's in Montreal and there is one winery (Southbrook) in Ontario that is doing a small run of orange wine.
Veronique Rivest has a couple on her wine list at Soif
"The 11.5 percent ABV juice is hued neon blue with anthocyanin (a pigment found in grape skin) and indigo (a dye extracted from the Isatis tinctoria plant), and a non-caloric sweetener is added as well."
Orange wine is a totally different beast. The orange hue comes from skin contact where the skins are left in the grape juice after pressing. Generally speaking, there is very minimal/no chemical intervention with orange wines. So not the case in the blue wine.
You can find some Italian orange wines in SAQ's in Montreal and there is one winery (Southbrook) in Ontario that is doing a small run of orange wine.
Veronique Rivest has a couple on her wine list at Soif
Rizak
GIMME!
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You can be guaranteed that this will be the must-have for all the upcoming weddings for the next 5 years, if you can get it. The blue sparkling wines from California look really nice, too. I have no idea how they taste, but they are around 11.5% for the one in the picture.
Let's face it, though. If you're ordering cases of wine just because of the colour, you don't really care what it tastes like. Do you?