{"id":85,"date":"2007-08-23T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/dont-judge-a-wine-by-its-color\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T13:00:42","slug":"dont-judge-a-wine-by-its-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/dont-judge-a-wine-by-its-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Judge A Wine By It’s Color"},"content":{"rendered":"

My sister only drinks red wine, and when she came to dinner the other night she brought a lovely bottle of Oregon Pinot Noir. It was really nice of her, and we all enjoyed it, but I wonder if a tiny part of her reason was to avoid being “stuck” with the whites I wanted to showcase.<\/p>\n

I opened a bottle of mead that I made in the style of a dry white wine, and for some it was the first mead they had ever tried. I can’t really describe what mead tastes like. I wondered about that for a long time, then I finally decided to make some<\/a> and find out.<\/p>\n

Next came a rhubarb wine<\/a>. I make this every year from rhubarb that I grow in my backyard. It was dry, like the mead, and had the lightest color of the three. Rhubarb was one of the first “country wines” I ever tried, and it opened my eyes to a whole new world beyond grapes.<\/p>\n

My 2005 Riesling<\/a> rounded out my trio – very dry and acidic, but balanced, and it had a great flavor. She asked for a bottle to take home with her, “I didn’t think I liked white wine, but I like Erroll’s white wine.”<\/p>\n

I love red wine, but I think a lot of people are missing just how great white wine can be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My sister only drinks red wine, and when she came to dinner the other night she brought a lovely bottle of Oregon Pinot Noir. It was really nice of her, and we all enjoyed it, but I wonder if a tiny part of her reason was to avoid being “stuck” with the whites I wanted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tasting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t