Good Wine, Good Flight
January 16th, 2010 | 
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One of the best features available to you when you take advantage of an aircraft charter is that you get to select which food and drink you would like to eat. Any five-star cuisine is available to you when you fly on a lear jet, so it makes sense to have the appropriate wines to correspond with the various dishes you will be consuming in flight. Good wine is such a pleasure to enjoy, and it makes sense that if you have good wine aboard your private charter jet, then you will have a good flight.
Wine grapes are usually made from Vitis vinifera, latin for the European species of wine grape varieties. Perhaps you enjoy Merlot, or Chardonnay. These are varietals, because they use these particular grapes as the primary grape in the production of those specific wines. Blended wines can be luscious as well, especially if they are prized wines from Tuscany or Bordeaux.
There are several categories of wine, and all of these are available for your enjoyment on your next personal charter jet flight. It is lovely to start with an aperitif, which could include Vermouth or Madeira, to enjoy before your meal. If you are dining on Seafood, salad, pork or curry, then you might pair it with a rose wine. For a special occasion, you might select a sparkling wine, the most famous of which is champagne.
A table wine is always a delectable choice when you are looking for a wine that has a lighter alcoholic content. This might be a good choice if you are wanting to conduct business as you enjoy the meal. After the sumptuous food, why not top it off with a dessert wine, a sweet wine. They can include Sauternes, port, Tokay or sweet sherry, and any would be delightful after a delicious meal. If you are looking for something with a little more impact, a fortified wine that has had a spirit added to it may be the best selection. Brandy or grappa are excellent examples of fortified wines.
The color of a wine is brought about by the inclusion of the grape skin during the process of fermentation when the wine is being made. Red wine gets its glorious color because the skin is left in the juice while it ferments, whereas with white wine, no matter what color grape is being used, it remains white because the grape skin has been removed.
All of these stellar wines are available for your delectation when you choose to travel on a private charter jet. Simply let your personal concierge know what you desire, and he or she will ensure that it is on board and ready for you.
Jonathan Blocker
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A good wine flight?
I wanted to put together a wine flight for a party–preferrably white wine. (tasting of wine samples that are similar and complement one another) Any suggestions??
Sorry but Flying and Wine drinking dont mix!!!! LOL
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I think chardonnay has been done to death. I think if you want to set up a wine flight, choose some less popular varietals to introduce your friends to something new.
Some of my favorite whites include: riesling, viognier, pinot blanc, albariño and semillon.
Pick white wines of varying sweetness and body. Start light and dry and work your way to fuller and sweeter. White wines can cover a wide territory in terms of taste, color and texture.
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I’ll drink to that. Pass the viognier!
My favorite flight is to pick a type of grape, like sauvignon blanc for example, and then find them from different countries. Do france, new zealand, united states, etc. and see how they taste different from each other.
Another thing you could do is a flight of any white under say $15. or whatever price range you want.
It is actually a bit hard to try and taste different whites because some just don’t taste right one after the other. like going from a very sweet gewurztraminer to a big buttery chardonnay. It just tastes weird.
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Wine Flight
The Many Shades of Rosé Flight
Three 3 oz. Pours $12
Spring has sprung…So what better way to celebrate but with a refreshing Rosé flight. Last year we just focused on Pinot Noir Rosé, but this time around we are using a broader brush, to show just how perfect Rosés are for many Spring time occasions. Here then are three great examples of Rosé:
1. Ch. Ferry Lacombe, Côtes-de-Provence, Provence, France $7 gl $28 btl
The history of Ch. Ferry Lacombe goes back 300 years when the Ferri family from Italy settled in Trets-en-Provence. The area, known as Mont St. Victoire, has a cool microclimate and produces wines with a crisp acidity.
This wine, made up of 50% Grenache, 40% Cinsault and 10% Syrah, comes from
8 hectares of the oldest vines, and is hand harvested. The wine is made by the "Saignee" method, the juice is left on the skins for 8 to 12 hours and then pressed off.
The wine shows wonderful fresh peach elements with a good hit of acidity, and a little strawberry mid palate. A great picnic wine.
2. Charles Joguet, Chinon Rosé, Loire, France $8 gl $32 btl
The vineyards of the Domaine Charles Joguet have ancient origins.
Their Sazilly vineyards, which are entirely planted with Cabernet Franc, date back to 1830 or maybe earlier. Since it was founded by Charles Joguet in 1957, the domain has been seeking to highlight the Chinon terroirs (a combination of soil and microclimate), with a simple idea in mind: each wine is the expression of a particular terroir.
This rosé is made by bleeding a certain quantity of juice from different vats, before the color of the must becomes too pronounced.
It is very slowly fermented in stainless steel vats at low temperature (15° à 17°C), to preserve all the aromas, an essential characteristic looked for in this style of wine. Malolactic fermentation is avoided, as the freshness of the wine should be preserved intact.
The wine is a bright silvery salmon color, with clean raspberry, floral and minty aromas. Supple, fruity and dry, with good texture and depth for rosé. Fat and easygoing, but kept fresh by a bright minty quality.
3. 2005 Soter, Rosé, North Valley, Yamhill-Carleton, Oregon $9 gl $36 btl
Soter Vineyards rosé is derived from their Beacon Hill Estate vineyard, where it is farmed with the same meticulous attention to detail and low yields as all of their wines. Select lots of Pinot Noir are given a gentle whole-cluster pressing and then quickly taken off of the skins, and soon they are fermented in neutral oak and stainless steel barrels. After approximately 4 months of aging, the wine has excellent clarity and purity, and is ready for bottling with a slight addition of spicy, fruity red Pinot Noir to add color and even more flavor dimension.
The wine has a great texture and is rich on the palate; the flavors are of strawberry and raspberries and to finish there’s plenty of acid to balance things out.
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Just don’t let the pilot drink!
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