Assidity Revolucion

The stage is set for a record breaking heatwave.  For a few days every year San Francisco brushes away the “coldest winter” Mark Twain ever spent and becomes a tropical paradise.  During a year spent working on the Pacific Option Exchange that meant the trading floor by 5:30am and the deck of our Boston Whaler by 2pm; skipping along the water past Alcatraz, ducking behind Angel Island, up Racoon Strait, docking in Tiburon for bait and a tumbler of nouveau on-the-rocks.

Not this week.  Sugar levels are rising, acidity is dropping and the mayor is taxing.  Gavin Newsom has proposed a tax on sugar in soda pop!     So in the spirit of our theme  “A whole NOU tradition” and vitis vinifera, we’re taking this opportunity to remind you that “grape” flavor was invented in a lab alongside high fructose corn syrup.

An apple is an apple and a peach a peach.  However vitis vinifera (species of the fine wine grape) has evolved naturally to showcase the entire spectrum of fruit flavor:  strawberry, cherry, raspberry, blueberry, blackberry… you name it. 

Aromatics of wine can be so vibrant, particuarly those produced using whole cluster fermentation, that a soda pop drinker may think some Nouveau wines are actually sweet.  In America today in fact many people associate fruit flavors with sweetness.  This is not the case with Andrew Lane Nouveau.

Nouveau is of the earth.  It is a celebration of harvest.  The antithesis of a neon colored sugar laden cocktail.  Try a nouveau on ice, each vintage is a little different.  It isn’t sweet, you’ll live longer and catch more fish!