http://journals.lww.com/jcat/Abstra...ast_Agents_for_CT__A_Taste_Test_Survey.7.aspx Yet another indication our nation has shifted significantly to the left. Have your say. Answer the poll question above!
I'm a big fan of red wine, particularly Cabernet Sauvignon. I can't stand kool-aid or soda pop or any other sugar water BS. Americans could get over a great deal of their weight issues if they just stopped drinking sugar drinks. So many unnecessary calories. Water is good. Once you get used to drinking water, you don't even crave anything else. Water is what you need to truly satisfy thirst.
Love red wine as well. I prefer to think of wine as food, and as marriage to food, so don't mind austerity, some acid, and elegance/balance over packing as much concentration into a glass as modern technique and preferences (esp. in the West Coast) allow. (Massive, in your chest mouthfeel and palate wallop tends to win awards at judgings, where judges have tried 100's of wines - it "zings" their palate, after a battle of palate fatigue; awards = press = money. Do the math, esp. in the "new world." But it's not a measure of skill, finesse, or the idea of wine and food in harmony). Given my bent, tops for me is French burgundy or some Willamette Valley, Oregon pinot noirs (Adelsheim is one of the most outstanding vintners I know). This is followed for me by Rhône wines rich in grenache - Gigondas at the top, with Rhône wines, generally great values; unlike the pain in the ass pinot noir, the Rhône grapes - grenache, syrah, mourvedre, (and more than a dozen other varieties, the "Rhône alchemy," including cinsault, carignane, petite sirah, many others in greater or lesser degree) - are more impervious to variable weather than their finicky northern counterpart, and when it's hot, these grapes love to suck it up; a massively fat gigondas on a winter's night, with anything braised (esp. lamb) - awesome. Further south, a truly peasant wine, "cahors," the "black wines" or vins-sauvages of Cahors, as you approach the hip of the Pyrénées, northwest of the Littoral, le Midi: massive tannins, rough wine, deep color and taste. My cousin is a winemaker out of California. I called him once, while he was actually in cahors, on business. What was he doing? Gorging on wild boar, roasted on an open spit, in the village square - as was being done in a concatenation of villages throughout the region. The people of Cahors are proud of their rough, Southern ways - and are as sauvage, proudly so, as their wine. They tend to loathe the cheaply urbane, value black earth and all things Provençal; they are decidedly anti-Parisian. My kind of folks, actually, in my food and wine. Also love many Italian wines - esp. the relatively unknown wines of the Puglia region. If you haven't enjoyed the Primitivo grape (compare with its genetic cousin, the rich style of Zinfandel favored in many California producers), do so; or the wonderful "black grape" variant, negroamaro (See Salice Salentino). Don't know if this makes me a snob, or a wino. But grape and grain, good things from good earth, doesn't get better.
North, Argentine malbec is a kickass, you should try. having said that, I suggest anyone who has a cola addiction to do this experiment: get the sugar bowl and a kitchen scale. Pour white, refined sugar until the scale marks 39 grams. Would you put that much sugar in a Tall Starbucks cup of coffee? Of course not. Well, it is THAT much sugar you get with every lil' can o' coke.
Yep, agreed. I do like Argentine malbec, for the same reason I like Cahors, and Rhone wines (where it is at best a blending component, never the star) - tannic backbone (though more muted than in France - my experience is that sun, as in Rioja, can really bake the rough edges out of a normally tannic varietal) with incredible depth of flavor. Mendoza Malbec is a fave.
Very cool northpoint. I'm not really an expert on wine - I just enjoy it. But my dad used to work at a winery so I've had some exposure to the details of how it is made. Very interesting stuff.
I prefer red wine over kool aid. But beer over both of those And water as my primary drink. I spent enough time in the desert to know how important water is to the body. Before joining the army I was like the majority of americans and drank lots of crap. Now, I mainly drink water, with a dr. pepper thrown in here and there, and sweet tea (this is my sugar intake lol). However, mostly water. If you drink water as the majority of your fluids you will feel so much better all around. It really is different. However, I'm not big on red wine, and kool aid is just disgusting. And this makes sense, all the americans drinking the kool aid, no wonder Obama got elected.
I'll agree on that hostlonestar - Americans were sipping the "kool-aid" (ie: "Hope") during the 2008 election... on the other hand, they would have had to have been drunk to elect another Republican after 8 years of the Bush admin.