please to bend down to the one called the green wine. i'm not talking about organically produced ecologically sound alcohol here, though i'm sure there is some green-green wine out there. this is vinho verde, portugese green wine, a favorite summer drink of my parents for many years. i wasn't actually into it till this visit. it may be because my first taste was from an old bottle. green wine is meant to be drunk within a year of bottling, i think, and my first bottle was probably past its prime.
speaking of which, dudes, i think this whole "what we drank" thing is past its prime. not that we're going to stop drinking, i did after all set a goal, but i find it hard to blog about drinking without feeling like i'm sounding really pretentious, or really alcoholic. but i will stay the course! two to go!
Oh here we have something similar - Federweißer - it is a unbrewed wine in a way. It is kind of a Alsace thing cause you drink it and eat Tarte Flambee. You can get it only in July/ August. It is basically grape juice that is the first stadium of fermentation. You get your bottle and it is not sealed so it can brew and when you leave it for a day outside of the fridge it gets really sparkly. I drink it almost as a juice, which is tricky, cause it has 9%...
ReplyDeleteGeri, I know that one, too! Here it's called "burčák". Although I actually never tasted it myself. But it's a big thing in Southern Moravia in that time of the year...
ReplyDeleteBTW, Ooona, you actually make it sound interesting. Keep them coming.