With a swish of cooling acidity and the merest hint of sweetness, this gentle white from a lesser-known vineyard area near to Lake Garda would be my pick as an aperitivo and to sip alongside Claudia's mozzarella artichokes.
Similar to the weather in coastal California and the Rhône Valley, the long, hot Colorado days allow grapes to ripen with ideal sugar levels while cool nights create terrific acidity, both essential elements for quality wine.
Though riesling struggles to ripen in such a climate in some years, it characteristically thrives in cool weather, maintaining an acidity that animates the wines with an almost electric vitality.
I wouldn't be surprised to discover, as time goes by, that in most cases I would prefer Long Island chardonnays that are fully fermented and reared in stainless-steel tanks, which preserves the fruitiness and the pizazz intact, with only minor use of wood -- neutral, older barrels -- to round out texture and soften overbearing acidity in cool vintages.
Couple this with the grape's prima donna temperature demands-warm though not-too-warm days to ripen up, but with cool nights to keep acidity from respiring out-and you begin to see why making great Pinot Gris takes a special calling.
The fruit is candid, and the cool Oregon weather keeps the acidity at a good pitch.
"The wines have such beautiful naturally acidity and the cool alpine climate ensure the alcohol levels are kept in check".
The correlation analysis between physicochemical characteristics and sensory testing of Korean Makgeolli using the taste biological sensor showed that "titratable acidity" and "sourness, cooling sensation, and balance" have high correlation.
Let mixture cool, then taste, adjusting sweetness and acidity as necessary.
For one, he said, the state is too hot — those warm days may build sugars in the grapes, but cool nights are needed to create acidity for balance.
