A mid-week post-WYSO bottle of wine, and as such entirely satisfactory. Rhubarb is one of my favourite whites. It has a perfect level of dryness and fizz, and it reminds me of proper made-from-grapes wine. Most of my flavours, whilst being acceptable and often delicious glasses of alcoholic liquid, are not wine (now there's a confession I won't make very often) but rhubarb is different. I should do a blind taste test with this against Cava.
Diary-event-wise, very little happened during the drinking of this bottle. Anything I mentioned would be tedious. Insert your own punchline here ...
Ben, perhaps rhubarb is an ancient closely guarded secret ingredient in Cava! I'm having a go at Birch Sap - definitely not expecting grape flavoured wine with this!!!
ReplyDeleteA couple of years ago I went to a rhubarb farm - I live just outside the Rhubarb Triangle, which is a bit like the Bermuda Triangle but involves fewer planes vanishing and more crumble - the first bit of which was a lecture about rhubarb. The lecturer promised all sorts of magic properties about rhubarb, but did not mention it being Cava's secret ingredient.
ReplyDeleteI will be very interested to hear about Birch Sap wine. I think I have tried it once, and it was an unusual flavour, and your expectations I think are correct. It was very sweet.
Aha - I have just gone to your blog, and am now about to read all about tapping birch trees. Anyone else stumbling across this blog/comment - click on Jerry's name and it will take you there. 'The Great Outdoors' is always worth a read.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the 'plug' Ben!
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