Replace sauvignon blanc with chardonnay, and this is my wife. I'm only allowed to buy wine with a screw top, unless I'm buying myself a red, which she will not touch.
I don't think I could ever be friends with your sister. 😉🥳 Just kidding. Actually, if you can do 100 or so such interviews the wine industry might actually learn something.
Actually screw caps are by far the most widely used closure in Australia and New Zealand. They are used on every type of wine from cheap to expensive and from wines meant to be drunk young to those that are age worthy. Generally speaking they are considered far superior to cork or diam without any of the contamination risks of those closures. You'll only see cork used in these places for export markets to pacify the preconceptions of drinkers in those markets, by very small producers or by producers trying to dress up a bottle with premium looking packaging. Jancis Robinson famously preferred a flight of kiwi chardonnays over a flight of very famous Burgundies in a blind tasting. Her reason: all the French ones were corked.
I agree on white wines. I'm not convinced on reds. It may be that some need to breathe may be part of the aging process for reds.. Good corks may be over $1 each.
Screwcaps still allow micro-oxygenation. There has been a lot of testing of them over decades by the Australian Wine Research Institute to see how they perform against all other closures. Early screwcaps were too airtight but they have improved since. I asked a winemaker in NSW how he compared two Reds under cork and screwcaps after 10 years. The screwcaps still matured but kept their freshness better.
I do not drink alcohol. I do enjoy cannabis. The little I know about wine, your sister sounds like the wine-version of the guy who buys brown “brick” weed in a Walmart parking lot from some guy she doesn’t really know, and she has to bring her own bags because otherwise he will just put it in her bare hands. When she goes to smoke it, she finds the dirtiest metal pipe she can use, and then torches all of the flower in the pipe in one go with a lighter, inhaling a potently aromatic combo of lighter fluid, pesticides/fungicides, and flint metal shavings. Then she offers you to try it, and you look down and see nothing but a pile of dirty ash that wouldn’t look out of place on the table near McDonald’s ashtray in the early 90s.
I like this woman. Cherish her. And for the record, my favorites are the Winking Owl wines at Aldi’s. Excellent enough wines for my clumsy palette and less than four bucks a bottle. Yeah, you read that price right…😊
Replace sauvignon blanc with chardonnay, and this is my wife. I'm only allowed to buy wine with a screw top, unless I'm buying myself a red, which she will not touch.
Sounds like your sister must have been a good, no nonsense or pretensions counter balance to you at family dinners!
This was good. You should only do text interviews from here on out.
I don't think I could ever be friends with your sister. 😉🥳 Just kidding. Actually, if you can do 100 or so such interviews the wine industry might actually learn something.
I do not like NZ Sauvignon Blanc. Too acidic. Loire Valley France for me.
A screw cap is right for a cheap white wine that is designed to be drunk young. Her reasoning may be...er...screwy, but the answer is correct.
Actually screw caps are by far the most widely used closure in Australia and New Zealand. They are used on every type of wine from cheap to expensive and from wines meant to be drunk young to those that are age worthy. Generally speaking they are considered far superior to cork or diam without any of the contamination risks of those closures. You'll only see cork used in these places for export markets to pacify the preconceptions of drinkers in those markets, by very small producers or by producers trying to dress up a bottle with premium looking packaging. Jancis Robinson famously preferred a flight of kiwi chardonnays over a flight of very famous Burgundies in a blind tasting. Her reason: all the French ones were corked.
I agree on white wines. I'm not convinced on reds. It may be that some need to breathe may be part of the aging process for reds.. Good corks may be over $1 each.
Screwcaps still allow micro-oxygenation. There has been a lot of testing of them over decades by the Australian Wine Research Institute to see how they perform against all other closures. Early screwcaps were too airtight but they have improved since. I asked a winemaker in NSW how he compared two Reds under cork and screwcaps after 10 years. The screwcaps still matured but kept their freshness better.
I do not drink alcohol. I do enjoy cannabis. The little I know about wine, your sister sounds like the wine-version of the guy who buys brown “brick” weed in a Walmart parking lot from some guy she doesn’t really know, and she has to bring her own bags because otherwise he will just put it in her bare hands. When she goes to smoke it, she finds the dirtiest metal pipe she can use, and then torches all of the flower in the pipe in one go with a lighter, inhaling a potently aromatic combo of lighter fluid, pesticides/fungicides, and flint metal shavings. Then she offers you to try it, and you look down and see nothing but a pile of dirty ash that wouldn’t look out of place on the table near McDonald’s ashtray in the early 90s.
I like this woman. Cherish her. And for the record, my favorites are the Winking Owl wines at Aldi’s. Excellent enough wines for my clumsy palette and less than four bucks a bottle. Yeah, you read that price right…😊
My ex always bought Kim Crawford. He was sad to learn Kim is a dude.