NEDERBURG wine Special Late Harvest 2007

I felt a big curiosity of trying a late harvest wine. Is the taste really as nice as what other blogger were writing? so I bought NEDERBURGH special late harvest 2007 (South-African wine) for only S$ 19.25 because of discount in Cold Storage, the original price is S$26.90 and I checked in Carrefour it's about S$28++. Moreover read that this wine brand is quite popular so I bought it.

Btw the service in wine section in WEST COAST MALL, COLD STORAGE IS TOTALLY AWFUL and instead of serving me the employee of the wine section ( Filipino woman) criticized me of not spelling correct "Greek" word (I've been living here for 5 years, how come that she thinks her English is better than mine?) and then she was playing with her laptop afterward while I have to searched of the whole wine section of my own. Enough about her.

When you see the picture the color of the wine is appealing and unique like it's already been caramelized. Haven't tasted the wine yet, still waiting for the right time to open it.

"not so complete" Info about Wine

My experience drinking wines so far is not so good so hereby I decided if I want to drink wine I have to do a research 1st about which wine is good to drink at and mostly at a relaxing time. While I did the research I found many interesting facts about wine (white, red, rose, champagne).

1. White wine is made from green grapes like sauvignon blanc, riesling, chardonnay, moscato (muscat), tawny, semillon, etc.
2. Red wine is made from red grapes like pinot noir, merlot, cabernet sauvignon, shiraz, pinot grigio, etc.

There are also variety tastes of wine that not into my liking like dry (high acidity of wine), semi-dry (not so high acidity of wine), while Icewine (Iskiilin), dessert and fortified wine are sweet wines that I like to taste. When I was in wine section in supermarket I got confused to see chardonnay, sauvignon blanc, merlot, pinot noir, etc then now I understand that the manufacturer of the wine always put the name of the grape that they used whey the producing the wine because every single variety of the grapes have different tastes. I always wondered why Caucasian find wine is a must-drink as a part of their culture? While for me as South-east Asian think that wine contains alcohol and it's not good to consume a lot of alcohol at the same time. However may be environment changes people as so wine is look as the substitute of water for Caucasians like tea as the substitute of water for Chinese and Japanese people.

The interesting fact is dessert wine is made mostly from riesling (popular in Germany), semillon (popular in France, this grape usually use for "sauternes" a popular bordeaux dessert wine), moscato (popular in Israel and Greece). Bordeaux is a French region that popular because its wine production worldwide, they name the wine mostly using "CHATEU" as the 1st word, the wines from Bordeaux recognized as expensive wines with the superior (the best) quality of wine. Now France, Spain, Italy, Australia, Chili, California, Israeli, Germany, South-Africa, even China and Thailand (newbies in wine business) also competing with each other to make the best wines in the world, I don't know about other countries though.

I was thinking why a rose wine called "rose"? Is it because of the pinky color rose-like or because the taste like rose. Just read about the rose wine from internet I guess is not enough because I have to experience it myself then I will get the answer of questions.

I studied a lot from wikipedia.org this website is really useful, even though sometimes the content needs to be updated.

DEETLEFS ESTATE weisser riesling 2007 Taste (Tasting)

Introduction, I'm currently living in Singapore, still a student in a university, still depending on my parents' money even though I worked before as a part timer, feeling curious about wine because of the unique taste compare to other alcoholic drinks (vodka, tequila, beer, Bacardi, margarita, martini, even singapore sling, etc.).

After my bad experiences drinking wine now I need to be careful to choose a bottle wine. Then for my 1st attempt to buy wine I chose a bottle of white wine from NTUC. DEETLEFS ESTATE weisser riesling 2007 (South-African wine) with only S$18.40 from S$29.90. Choose this one because of riesling grape because riesling is type of quite expensive wine while the offering price was really hard to resist and also I just found 1 bottle only in the wine section so I grabbed the last bottle of weisser riesling.

I tasted the wine today after chilled it in the fridge. For me the taste is:

First when I smell it, it gave me a strong smell of the richness of grape with alcoholic content (The alcohol volume is just 13%), and when I sipped it, it was fruity, not to high in acidity, a bit sweet (Note: that a bit means not very sweet like sugar) but yet it's crisp and refreshing. The wine was slowly pour down to my throat and the alcohol taste was light and slow and no bitter taste at the end.

Overall this wine is acceptable. For a beginner like me who don't really drink wine often I would like to try to combine the wine with some food. I drank this wine with sushi and the combination was perfect. The sushi was a lot and the wine helped me to make the sushi tasted better so I can finished everything.However this wine is not very good if leave it too long in an open air because the taste changed become high in acidity and not too refreshing anymore, so once open the bottle try to finish it quickly with the meal.

I'm still an amateur in this field so please do not compare me with other experienced connoisseurs blogger.