Minerality Archives | Palate Press

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Palate Press has selected our top ten stories from 2012 and will publish a 2012 Redux article each weekday until January 4, 2013. These stories highlight our featured columnists, widely recognized contributors, and most popular works published through the year. The Palate Press editorial board hopes you enjoy these highlights Read More

Tasting Wine, Broadly Speaking

Meg Houston Maker

Features

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Pour a glass for each of us. Now, what does this wine taste like? You get apricot, I get peach. You like the acidity, I think it’s too much. You get a whiff of spearmint, I think it smells like wet stone and sage. But we agree it’s great with Read More

Minerality in wine: taken for granite?

Ioannis Karakasis

Features

5 min read

The presence of minerality in wine is beyond a doubt a one of the most controversial and hot issues of the wine world. It stands among topics like climate change, the impact of ''wild yeasts,'' biodynamics and natural wines, all of which are capable of generating extensive and sometimes endless Read More

Crisp, Inexpensive, & Rising: Picpoul’s Return to Form

Marisa D'Vari

Features Wine Spotlight

3 min read

“Picpoul de Pinet?,” says a woman doubtfully, picking up a green tinted bottle under the “staff’s favorite” sign at a trendy Manhattan wine shop. Though the label is hip and modern, reading "PIC" in giant red block letters, it appears to have the appellation's ancient coat of arms branded on Read More

Taking Our Vitamins and Minerality

Evan Dawson

Features

5 min read

How Eliminating One Simple Word Can Make the World of Wine a Saner Place Minerality. It is one of the most commonly used words to describe both red and white wine, and yet it remains one of the most confusing.-read more- Read More

2012 Redux: Tasting Wine, Broadly Speaking

Tasting Wine, Broadly Speaking

Minerality in wine: taken for granite?

Crisp, Inexpensive, & Rising: Picpoul’s Return to Form

Taking Our Vitamins and Minerality

2018 Ghost of a Chance Wines “Gangster of Love” Red, Sierra Foothills

2020 One Flock Sauvignon Blanc

2020 One Flock Red Wine, California

Bellenda San Fermo, Conegliano Valdobbiadene DOCG Prosecco Superiore, Brut

2021 David Frost Sauvignon Blanc, Western Cape, South Africa