Wine for the Masses

Sweet and Sour Wine

My good friend Mary bought a bottle of wine several days ago. It was so very bad (as she related to me over Mulligatawny soup and salad). I must say that I didn't have a whole lot of advice to give her other than just to try again.

Today, I received a call from Mary about her newly improved wine. The wine had tasted alcoholic with very bitter start and finish with not much in the middle. However, it was easily fixed with a touch of sugar. Yes, faithful reader, she added sugar to Red Zinfandel.

I think that is a perfectly valid reason to add extra ingredients to wine though. If you buy a wine that you do not like as is, experiment with a few ideas to see if you can make it better. I also suggested for her to try chilling it a bit to see if that would help dull some of the alcoholic taste and the bitterness that had been there.

Posted by Ben at 12/04/2005 11:49:00 PM