British wine magazine Decanter comes up with some wine trends this week that we don't want to keep from you. Among them are chilled red wines and refillable bottles. Here, Californian author Kate Cole describes the situation in the US in particular. It's up to you whether you also recognise this as a trend.
Text: Ingrid Larmoyeur | Image: AI art by Vinissima
Chilled reds ('chillable reds') are the first trend Cole identifies. As younger wine lovers are looking for lighter styles of wine, this was also on the horizon, of course. Elegant reds with a lower alcohol content, and perhaps fresh acids. And these just chill a bit more than their sturdy brothers.
Festival
In the US, the number of multi-day wine festivals is decreasing due to fewer visitors and rising costs. Fortunately, this does not yet seem to be the case for our country, but then our events usually last only one day.
After the corona lockdowns, wineries in California flooded again with wine tourists. Consequence? Booking tickets in advance and paying for them. Fortunately, that is over again and you can usually just drop by again.
Refillable bottles
In Oregon, they want to drastically reduce the waste stream of glass bottles for wine by using refillable bottles, as we do with beer, for example. A test with 720,000 refillable bottles from 16 winemakers in Oregon should prevent about 900 tonnes of CO2 emissions. Good idea. But would it also be an option here, with that huge supply in the Netherlands?
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