If you’re looking for the ideal food pairing for cabernet sauvignon you don’t have to look very far. Almost any red meat, especially served rare, is going to do the trick.
Wine Making Education
Wine Making Education
Truly! Our wines are crafted for versatility, pairing with a range of dishes and cuisines, so you can enjoy them any way you like.
Barrel aging is the cornerstone of the process called élevage, which is the French term meaning “raising” or “upbringing” used to describe what happens to the wine between fermentation and bottling.
Cheeses are excellent with red wine – Thus Pizza! Learn more about all kinds of different wine, acidity, and reading other notes to help you choose the best wine pizza pairings.
…Acidity – the liveliness and crispness in wine that activates our salivary glands.
…Balance – a term for when the elements of wine – acids, sugars, tannins, and alcohol – come together in a harmonious way.
…Chaptalization – adding sugar to wine before or during fermentation to increase alcohol levels. Chaptalization is illegal in some parts of the world and highly controlled in others.
…Demi-sec — french term meaning “half-dry” used to describe a sweet sparkling wine.
…Oak or Oaky — tasting term denoting smells and flavors of vanilla, baking spices, coconut, mocha, or dill caused by barrel-aging
…Wine Tasting — the act of perceiving flavors in wine by using the three esses: see, swirl, sniff, sip, and savor.