why white wine
Hello dear friends and welcome to our new podcast focusing on white wine tasting. Join us as we uncover new grape varieties and introduce you to wine producers that may have slipped past your attention.
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Niche Cortese by La Caplana aged in amphora (opens the original)
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This episode is dedicated to a very special wine and a very special wine producer - Angora by La Caplana. https://www.lacaplana.it/it/# Anfora, from La Caplana, ferments and ages in clay. It's an old method, older than oak, and it changes the wine in specific ways: slower oxygen exchange, steadier temperature, more texture from extended skin contact. The result is a Cortese with more grip, more shadow, less of the clean edges we expect from Gavi. We taste it and talk through what clay actually d
Gutedel/Chasselas/Fendant: From Ancient Egypt to the Black Forest (opens the original)
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In this episode of Why White Wine , we uncork one of Central Europe's long-established grape varieties: Gutedel (known internationally as Chasselas), a grape variety whose story stretches back thousands of years. From its early cultivation in the Eastern Mediterranean and Ancient Egypt to its journey across Europe and its enduring home in Germany's Markgräflerland, where it is a famous and beloved grape in the Schwarzwald, we trace the remarkable history of a grape that has quietly shaped the cu
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