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Hi Jerome from Trailblazing Wine and TWTV offering hints and tips to help you get the
most enjoyment out of your wine. As we're finally approaching summer and hopefully some
sunny summer days I thought this week would be a good time to start to introduce white
wines but I was thinking of white wines for those that would usually only drink red wines.
When I ask people why they only drink red wine they often say that the reason for that
is they find white wines a bit fruity sometimes a bit too sweet and what they enjoy about
the red wines is the savoury complexity and dryness. So I thought I'd recommend some white
wines that have those characteristics. Now there are six styles of white wine that I
think would be a really good starting point if you currently only enjoy red wines. Now
these white wines are not the kind of fruit bombs that you might be used to when you've
tried white wines before these are much more savoury in style. Some of them are produced
in the same way that red wines are. So the first wine I would recommend if you haven't
tried it is a white Rioja. White Rioja is a very herbaceous style of wine it does have
fruit, sort of lemon and citrus notes but it also has a lot of thyme and savoury herbs
and it's a delicious wine with a bit of structure that would be very good to try if you only
like red wines. The next wine I'd recommend you try if you only like red wines but would
like to try white wines is a wine you probably haven't heard of called Ribola Giagla. Now
this wine comes from North East Italy and the wine is extremely complex offering floral
notes but not overly fruity. So the style you will enjoy will be tangerine notes, apricot,
some fruits but also a lot of floral and herbaceous notes it's a really interesting style to try.
The next style of wine that I would recommend trying is going back to some Chardonnay but
Chardonnay that has had a little bit of oak ageing. Now Chardonnay with oak ageing often
has been fermented in whole bunches including the grape skins and this is the same method
used in red wine production. With that you get a bit more complexity, a bit more savoury
notes in there and a slightly heavier style of wine and I think that would be very appealing
if you're starting out trying whites when you're used to only drinking reds. The other
style that I would recommend is a Semillon Sauvignon again, this is more herbaceous in
style than fruity, you can find some great examples in South West France. The next style
that I think is very exciting are Orange wines. Now Orange wines have started to come back
in style, it's a very ancient method of producing white wine and it's come back largely from
areas sort of in Eastern Europe, Slovenia and Italy. Orange wines are where they ferment
the white grapes in whole bunches with the grape skins so this means you get a lot more
complexity as you would with red wines so a bit more savoury notes, less fruity in style,
although you do get some fruit but these wines are very close to red wine in wine making
style so these are good wines to try if you only like reds. Perfect to be chilled down
in summer. The final wine I would recommend would be a Marsanne Roussanne blend which
again is herbaceous in style. This is delicious chilled but not the sort of fruit bombs that
you would expect if you don't like white wine and you've experienced that when you've tried
white wine. So what I'm going to do is put together a little offer on each of those wines
that you can purchase and give those wines a go and experiment to see if you can start
to enjoy white wines in the summer months if you've only liked red wines in the past.
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helps and I'll see you next week.