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The difference between reserve and regular wine
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Posted on Mar 05 2006
How do you differentiate reserved wine from a regular one? The question was Friday night’s topic during a wine tasting at AJ’s Restaurant in Susupe.
Marianas Pacific Distributors, Inc. Liquor and Tobacco sales manager Sheila Peebles led the wine tasting activity by holding another presentation about wines.
Peebles said the wine tasting aimed to inform as well as educate wine aficionados in the CNMI.
She said wine drinkers should know that reserved wine is a premium wine. This means that the grapes that are picked for this type of wines are of highest quality than the regular wine.
She said grape harvesters would first pick the best quality or the premium grapes in the vineyards to ferment them to a reserve wine. Although, being reserve has no legal definition, this term has often been used by wineries to designate their best quality wines, she said.
Peebles also shared to guests and visitors during the wine tasting the five steps of tasting methodology that is to: Check color, to swirl, to smell, to taste, and to savor.
She added that the wine that was featured that night was the Wente reserve wine, the wine that is not available in public stores and supermarkets in the CNMI. Peebles said the wine is only available in elite hotels and restaurants on the island.
AJ’s marketing manager Rhea Nishida said she was overwhelmed with the wine tasting event. She said the restaurant only intended to provide more knowledge or information to wine drinkers especially, the avid AJ’s Restaurant patrons.
Some of the guests during the event were Mr. and Mrs. Mark Williams of Smith and Williams Law Firm and Pacific Islands Club Guam sales and marketing director Norman Berg.
