In the summer time...

Hi all,
don’t you hear the song in your mind? Joe Cocker singin’ ";hot town, summer in the city..."; ;)))

Well, so what are your summer wines? Still-White wines? Sparkling? Or maybe you drink red despite the waaaaaaarm weather (well, if you are in other hemisphere we’d accept it ;)?

My 0.02 cents... I quit off red wines of my stemware from the spring, I only drink whites, sparkling or Sherries (in any of their forms but sweets)... You know, Madrid is a hell in summer :-/

Cheers,

Jose

Joe Cocker will do...I am thinking of another song I can’t quite recall...Of course, it will come in the middle of the night.
I also head towards whites in the summer with the occasional red. I love sparkling and non sparkling. We just finished our local strawberry season here in Seattle and I admit that I drink prosecco with the strawberry puree. I am also drinking Sauvignon Blanc and of course a variety of roses! I was recently savoring a nice
Albarino while looking at a fantastic view of some beautiful mountains in the state of Idaho.

Here are my wrong answers:
Janis Joplin / Amontillado Jalifa (20%)

Hi Jose,

I admit, I’ve been idle in the ’english side’.

Anyway, I’m on the ’rigth’ side, I enjoy whites, roses and cavas (sparking), however, I try too the young reds, sorry :^D... Perhaps roses are my favourite choice, because whites with oak could be also hard, somehow.

Jose, you better move to the north... :^DDDD even it is still very hot (I wish not as hot as spain’s central plateu :^D).

Maaaaaaaaaany regards.

Joan

Weekend in one of the corners of the Sherry triangle. Sea-breeze from the west making life considerably easier than in the rest of the wild South. Some great manzanillas: unfiltered Barbiana and superb (though apparently younger) Pastrana. Some fishing/boating while watching the incasdencent ligh of the Coto Doñana’s beach.

Well, no choice, a good amount of whites (still & sparkling), a considerable number of ‘generosos’, some rosés (why not....) and also some chosen reds (I do my best to drink them in the best possible conditions).

Hot hot hot here in the perfidious Albion, and my whites have been disappearing fast. Can’t beat a nice Burgundy (2002 especially at the mo), and I tend to drink a lot of low-alcolhol wines like German Rieslings and Hunter Valley Semillon. Also some chillable reds like Chinon or possibly some Pinot N (tho this is not good VFM in general).