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This is a rather fun video as we’re talking about… blue wine.
Now a couple of things if you’re wondering what is blue wine and whether it’s really ‘a thing’.
Yes it is a thing. It really became a trend a few years ago around the year 2015-2016, and it started in Spain I think, and it really spread quite rapidly from there thanks to social media, because you know, it does look really engaging for social media. So it spread to the UK and US as well from there. It sounds like it’s surprisingly pretty popular here in France too.
There are a few popular brands of blue wine you may have seen around, there’s Pasion blue, Gik which I think are Spanish but exported in the UK and the US and other countries, and there’s Vindigo in France, or Blanc de Bleu which is a California sparkling.
So What is blue wine?
Well, my understanding is that blue wine is essentially wine, white wine, to which they add some coloring to. Now, most claim that the coloring is ‘natural’ and I think that’s kind of true, as they extract pigments from fruits like blueberries, and some claim they extract it from grapes. But it’s not that you can naturally press some berries and obtain this kind of color, there’s some chemistry and process there. It’s essentially a blue food coloring extracted from God knows what.
Then often they add a bit of flavor to it to make it taste like something, and that’s something if often some sort of blueberry or mixed berries flavor so it kind of makes sense with the color.
Also, blue wine is not really for true wine drinkers, I don’t think, it’s more for millennials, for social media Instagram thing, or to add a bit of hipe at a party, so it doesn’t really have to taste like wine.
I personally had the opportunity a couple of times to taste some blue wines.
I tasted the Pasion Blue Chardonnay, which is a Spanish brand, and I even made a clip about it, here it is…
As you can see I didn’t quite like that blue Chardonnay, and described it as tasting like ‘Chemical blueberry mouthwash’. Yuk, that thing was disgusting.
And I remember tasting the Blanc de Bleu California sparkling when I was in Los Angeles. That one tasted ok as far as I remember, but nothing all that memorable.
So I had left blue wine at that, in my mind, for the past couple of years.
That’s until I came across this brand of sparkling blue wine called Skyfall.
Now what these guys do is take a standard Cava Spanish wine, from what they say a good one. So that’s made in Catalunia Spain, in Sant Sadurni d’Anoia in Penedès where most of the Cava wines are made, the heart of the traditional cava production area. It’s made using the traditional method, so fermented in the bottle, and then aged for three years on lees in the bottle. SO that’s made using the same method as Champagne, and aged twice as long in the bottle. So on paper it’s made very seriously. And then they add a bit of coloring to make it look like… well blue! I’m not 100% sure about flavoring in that one, so I guess we’ll find out….
So essentially with this, I was curious to see whether a blue wine can taste actually decent, which is not what I’ve experienced before, and perhaps even be surprised that it might taste rather good!
So let’s find out tasting and reviewing Skyfall in this wine tasting video.
Learn about SkyFall Blue wine: http://skyfallxperience.net/
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