{"id":11404,"date":"2020-03-13T18:52:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T17:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markoneill.es\/incorrect-comments-people-say-about-wine"},"modified":"2020-03-13T18:58:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T17:58:15","slug":"incorrect-comments-people-say-about-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markoneill.es\/en\/incorrect-comments-people-say-about-wine","title":{"rendered":"Incorrect Comments People Say About Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quite often I hear comments about wine that people believe to be true but are in incorrect. Here are some of the most common incorrect comments:<\/span><\/p>\n

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    \u2018All wines taste the same\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>No they don\u2019t. Learning how to taste wines requires practice to identify different aromas and flavours. Over time you will discover flavours and styles of wine that will make tasting much more fun and interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    \u2018I only drink red wine, white wines are for the ladies\u2019<\/span><\/strong>. There are some, very old fashioned and out of date, men who think that white wines just for aperitifs and for the ladies. Some of the finest and most complex wines in the world are white. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    \u2018Wines with screw caps are cheap and poor quality<\/span><\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>. I hear this one quite often and in this is just stupid. The closure whether it be cork or screw cap is not an indication of the wine\u2019s quality.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    \u2018Sniff the cork to see if the wine is OK\u2019<\/span><\/strong>. All the sniffing the cork does is makes you an expert cork sniffer, it won\u2019t tell you anything about the quality of the wine. If the cork is dried out or mouldy is different that could be a sign that there is a problem, but not by smelling the cork.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    \u2018Roses are poorer quality that whites and reds<\/span><\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>, totally wrong. In fact to make a good quality ros\u00e9 is more expensive to make because more kilos of grapes are required for less litres of wine. Ros\u00e9s are made from the juice of red grapes that has had very little contact with the skins, which contains the colour.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    \u2018Red wines with a deeper colour have more flavour<\/span><\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>. Not so. Different grapes produce wines with more or less colour but colour alone does not determine quality.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    \u2018Wines with legs are better\u2019<\/span><\/strong>, another misconception. Legs (lagrimas) that slowly slide down the glass will only indicate that the wine has a fully body and more alcohol. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    \u2018Wines get better with age<\/span><\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>. Some do but the vast majority do not. Most wines once bottled are not going to improve.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    \u2018A heavy bottle indicates better quality\u2019<\/span><\/strong>. The type of bottle has no bearing at all on the quality of the wine. All it means is that it will cost you more.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    \u2018Red wines should be served at room temperature\u2019<\/span><\/strong>. This is true if you live in a house where the room temperature is 16\u00baC, however, if that is not the case then don\u2019t serve red wine at \u2018your\u2019 room temperature, as I write this it is 27\u00baC in my house.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    \u2018Red wine with red meat and white wine with fish\u2019<\/span><\/strong>. While not totally wrong, if you read this column regularly you will know that there are many reasons why this is not always correct. It is more important to match intensity and flavours than colours.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    \u2018Expensive wines are always better<\/span><\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>. The price of wine is determined by many factors; cost of production, size of the winery, cost of materiales. Suffice to say that by paying more does not mean you are going to enjoy the wine more.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    \u2018Sweet wines are for beginners\u2019<\/strong> – <\/span>this is a sweeping generalisation and for that reason I include it here. Sweet wines are among some of the finest wines in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    I don\u2019t like New Zealand <\/span><\/strong>wines\u2019<\/strong> – it is stupid to disregard the wines from any particular country. It is like a New Zealander saying \u2018I don\u2019t like Spanish wines\u2019, with so much choice it sounds dumb, right?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you have any doubts about things you hear about wine drop me a line and let me know.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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