Summer wine
Summer wine is a collective term for a wine that is ready to drink in spring / early summer and reaches the peak of its life cycle in midsummer. According to this, summer wines for the European market can only come from wine-growing areas in the Northern Hemisphere . As a rule, these are wines from the previous year 's vintage . The terms spring wine and asparagus wine are used synonymously .
The word summer wine is in Central Europe and the British Isles , a word of marketing , in the Mediterranean -Anrainerstaaten the name of this wine type is unknown. The term is neither protected by law nor a permitted part of a wine bottle label .
Typicality
Summer wines are fruity, sparkling and light wines with perceptible minerality ; - “Invigorating” and “wholesome” are other common attributes. They only have a very short shelf life , so they should be drunk within a year.
For the production of summer wine, white wine and rosé wine grapes of certain grape varieties are mainly suitable , which characteristically only have a low alcohol content but a relatively high acid content . The acidity is necessary to make the wine harmonious against the fruit sweetness. They are maximally semi-dry , preferably cold-fermented and matured in steel tanks without wood. Typical white grape varieties in Central Europe are: Silvaner , Riesling , Pinot Blanc , Müller-Thurgau (also called Rivaner ), Grüner Veltliner and Elbling . Rosé wines are: Pinot Noir (also called Pinot Noir ) and Dornfelder . Residual sweet wines and aromatic varieties such as Gelber Muskateller or Gewürztraminer are unsuitable because they have too strong flavor aromas and too little acidity.
White and rosé summer wines are also often "sprayed" 1: 1 with sparkling water . A wine spritzer made in this way is therefore referred to in Austria as "spritzed", with a higher proportion of sparkling water (usually 3: 1) the name is "summer spritzer".
Red wines are also sometimes referred to as summer wine. The characteristic is that the red wine could also be enjoyed slightly chilled, although cooling is not mandatory as with white and rosé wines. Red summer wines are also light, without wood aging and have a low alcohol content. Typical grape varieties are, in addition to the varieties used for rosé, Primitivo , Zweigelt and Cabernet Franc .
Summer Wine in Media Culture
The positive use of the term summer wine is also reflected in its use in other cultural areas. Even if the lyrics suggest that no wine in the classical sense, but obviously a fruit wine is meant, the chart success Summer Wine is the most prominent example because of the similarity of names . The 1967 line- up with Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood made the song really popular and then covered countless times .
Other performers, such as the pop singer Claudia Jung with summer wine, like love sweet and wild , set a monument to the drink.
The comedy series Last of the Summer Wine , which started in 1973 and ended in 2010, was the UK's longest running sitcom . The connotation understands "summer wine" here as a highly desirable object whose expiry date is foreseeable.
See also
- Tinto de verano (Spanish summer wine)
Web links
- Manfred Kriener in the Kölner Stadtanzeiger with an attempt at a definition
- "Light, lively and wholesome" in the online magazine Selection
- Collection of industry uses of the term summer wine
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Kriener : Summer wine in the test. Der Tagesspiegel , July 27, 2008, accessed on May 26, 2010 .
- ↑ wine glossary from AZ ( Memento of 15 December 2009 at the Internet Archive )