Choosing white wine is not easy at all. In the restaurant, you can consult a sommelier, relying on his advice. In good wine boutiques, you can ask for advice from the seller. But in a typical supermarket, shoppers are left to their own devices, which forces them to buy wine based on their own experience.
Packaging
There is an opinion that the quality of its contents cannot be determined by the design of a wine bottle. However, there are a number of signs that help to more or less navigate and accurately determine the quality of the wine. Firstly, the producers of high-quality wines use heavy bottles with wide shoulders, such bottles usually taper slightly towards the bottom and have characteristic grooves in the bottoms. Secondly, foil capsules put on the neck of the bottles indicate good quality. Thirdly, excessive decoration of bottles with fruits, beads or artificial flowers most often indicates non-shiny content. The same can be said for wine, which is sold in jugs or similar bottles. However, it should be noted that really expensive wines are often bottled in unusual bottles, but such wines are not easy to find in a regular supermarket.
Types of white wine
There are two types of white wines - slightly oxidized and yellow wines. Low-oxidized wines are not aged. Such wines retain the properties of young ones - pleasant acidity, freshness, delicate fruity aroma. They usually have a characteristic light golden hue. Low-oxidized wines are produced using a special technology, which involves limiting the contact of oxygen and wine at all stages of production. Such wines are good as an accompaniment to vegetable, fish dishes and desserts.
Yellow wines are complex wines. They have moderate acidity, complex bouquet and rather bright amber color. These wines are made from grapes grown in the southern regions. Almost all yellow wines are dry, they are aged in small special barrels for two to four years.
The most popular white wines include European varietal ones - Riesling, Chardonnay, Aligote, Muscat, Sauvignon Blanc. Varietal wines are named after the grape variety from which they are made.
Stereotypes claim that the older the wine, the better it is. This statement is true for a small number of wines. Almost all rosé and whites taste best at a young age. If the label of the less expensive wine you are looking to buy indicates that it was bottled more than two years ago, it is likely that it has been stored in importers' warehouses for too long, which means that it did not sell very well. This indicates its low quality.
