Winecast: Rkatsiteli
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Some information on a widely planted yet relatively little known and appreciated grape with a hard to say name.
Here are some videos with dueling pronunciations. To Debra Meiburg's position most fairly, she defends her pronunciation on the grounds that it’s easier for the Chinese audience she’s trying to reach, which strikes me as a very reasonable explanation; so, this may be a non-controversy that just needed to be contextualized more clearly:
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I'm glad to say in Melbourne Australia it's surprisingly easy to find Georgian Wine, with our biggest alcohol retailer having about 20+ different options on their online store, and various interdependent bottle-shops around our high Mediterranean population area's generally carrying a variety of Israeli and Georgian wines.
The most common style i've found Rkatsiteli in though is as a blending partner to red wine Saperavi/Rkatsiteli's
Excellent presentation. No nonsense, factual, well rounded. Thank you.
Georgia and Moldova are definitely two places you have two go if you are scratching your head over where you should go on holiday. The first one is the birthplace of wine, the culture is very oriented toward this holy beverage and they are very proud of the unique and ancestral type of wines they produce (orange wine, qvevri...). Moldova on the other hand is very famous for hosting the two largest wine cellars in the world (milestii mici and Cricova) stretching for more than 150 km and containing more than 2 millions bottles. Both countries have a National holiday to celebrate wine, it just goes to show how serious they are about it :)
Thank you for the recommendations. I would love to visit Georgia -- I was once acquainted with a Georgian restauranteur and became quite enamored of Georgia's food culture as a consequence. I've never thought to visit Moldova, but it seems I should at least consider a trip. Cheers!
I also endorse Alexis' comment and I've been meaning to ask whether you are interested in Moldovan wines, I would like to hear your point of view on them. Other than that, I really enjoy your podcasts, I learn a lot!
Just found your videos and have become hooked. Very good knowledge sharing, thank you!!
Thanks! I'm glad they're helpful. Cheers!
Thank you so much for this. I've long enjoyed this grape in dry wines from Georgia and the Konstantin Frank one. Tonight while drinking the Tikves from Macedonia I tripped over your video. You do very good work.
Very educative video, thank you! (Georgia, Kazakhstan and mentioned countries were part of The Soviet Union)
I'm geeking out on this one! So out of my comfort zone, and I love it!! #Hyped
Glad you enjoyed it! The grape was on my radar (or I wouldn't have casted on it), but it was fun to dig a little deeper and learn more; so, I had a great time putting it together. Cheers!
The R is definitely pronounced in Georgia: Reh Kat si telli. The R is soft and the K is hard.
Awesome voice. Compact information
In the Soviet Union, Georgians (and Armenians) were always stereotyped as being Rich, largely due to the vineyards in those areas.
Thanks for this video, was little bit suprised by issue. Try another white varieties as Tsolikauri, Tsiska, Tsinandali but make sure they are: dry and qvevri made. Avoid any georgian semi-sweet wines, most of them are real "simple" and made for russian mostly primitive taste market. Still waiting for your notes about Mencia: real gem of Spain! Cheers!
Thanks for the suggestions and the inside information. Mecía is in the queue! Cheers!
BTW Tsolikauri grows on Georgian Black sea coast in very humid climate (think of Washington state) and this variety is resistible to such environment - rare ability for grape!
Very nice video learned a lot and thought it was extremely interesting. I have a Georgian wine I need to review and this is going to push me to do it sooner than later cheers.
Thanks, as always! Happy to have nudged you in the right direction. What variety is your Georgian wine? Saperavi? Cheers!
how bout saperavi
It's kvevry.
Try Mukuzani
Nerello Mascalese would be super interesting!!! Great videos.
I'm Georgian and you pronounce it close to perfect.
Well i looked online and while Total Wine carries Horton and Dr. Konstantin Frank Rkatsiteli they do not carry it in Kentucky.... bummer
I have the same issue in Washington State. When I looked Rkatsiteli up on their site it said they had four different bottlings folllowed by "Available to You (0)." One more reason why I give thanks every morning and night for U.S. wine law. That was sarcasm, by the way. Cheers!
The Chinese pronunciation is off, the characters for it is 白羽 which means white feathers... (I'd write the pronunciation for you but I cant think of a similar sound in English, as the U has an accented sound to it) Baiyu is an experimental grape in parts of China due to its ability to resist cold. Although Ive had quite a few wines from China, it has never came across the wine list. I'll look into it one day, thanks for the video... I hope (fingers crossed it wont show up on my tests), but it's good to know about it. Thanks