Today, I would like to write about what to drink with Dutch finger food. If you’re a fan of both wine and comfort food, then you’re in for a treat. Dutch finger food is a beloved part of Dutch culture and includes dishes like patatje oorlog, nieuwe haring, bitterbalen, and frikandellen. These tasty treats are often enjoyed with a beer, but have you ever thought about pairing them with wine?

With Christmas and new year celebrations, December is the sparkling wine month. Most Champagne, Crément, and other sparkling wines are drunk during the holiday season. Opening a sparkling wine is the sign that the party is about to start, it is a celebration. But what is sparkling wine, and what are the different families? How to choose some in Amsterdam and how to drink it. Wine is a regulated product; sparkling wine is not an exception.

Between Sinterklaas and Kerstmis there is some rooms to enjoy natural and low intervention wines. Tweeprinsen and Vinumnaturale When: Sunday 4th December from 12:00 Where: Café Tweeprinsen What to expect: Mortadella sandwiches & Etnella wines by the glass. Link Pirolito and Chateau Karlito When: Saturday 10th December from 2PM Where: Chateau Karlito What to expect: creations of 3 wine makers from Portugal to try. Link GUTGOUT When: Sunday 11th December from 13:00 to 17:00

If you like natural wines, you may have seen, on some french bottles, the words “Vin de France” or just the 3 letters, VDF. It is a designation, the last level of wine classification after " Appellation d’origine protégée" and “indication géographique protégée”. Vin de France was created in 2010 with two purposes, the simplification of the old classification system and to replace the old “Vin de Table” designation while giving winemakers more liberty to experiment and innovate.

Every third Thursday of November is a wine celebration day in France, “Le Beaujolais Nouveau”. The celebration of new wine made during the last harvest. The Beaujolais Nouveau, is simply a 100% Gamay Wine from the Beaujolais appellation made just after the harvest using carbonic maceration for a few days and available on the third Thursday of November every year. History You would think that such tradition comes from several centuries ago, even the middle age.

November in Amsterdam promises to be rich in wine events, here’s a nondefinitive list. Natural Wine Festival A’Dam When: 13th November Where: Denim City De Hallen What to expect: More than 10 winemakers, several natural wines from Germany, Spain, Italy, and France. Link The Grape Escape, Beaujolais nouveau When: 17th November Where: Lottis What to expect: vins primeurs, natural wines and fun. Wines from Pieksman, Rebel Wines and Chabrol Wines

The temperature of the wine is something more important than you may presume there is something that connects Wine, and temperature. The colder a wine is, the more its acidity is felt, conversely, the warmer it is than the alcohol will be discerned. A very cold temperature, if it gives a fresh sensation will also soften all the aroma and for red wine, tannins will be harder and they will give an extreme astringency.

There are a lot of wine tools, glasses, and bottle openers, … among them you have wine carafes. I made this post to let you understand how and why and which should be put in a carafe, so, let’s see how to use a carafe. The first question you ask is, what is the purpose of a carafe? It is not only about aesthetics, some carafes are very beautiful and look good on a table, but the role of a carafe is not there.

Imagine the situation, it is Saturday night, and you forget you host a dinner in 2 hours. The main problem is that you are running out of wine, Impossible to find a bottle in the house. Worst your favorite wine shop is close and other dealers are also closed. What can be your option in such a nightmare situation? Could you find a bottle of natural wine in a supermarket?

You can think that wine regulation is something recent, from the last part of our industrial and mass consumption time. But regulation was present since almost the beginning of wine history. Take the Roman Emperor Domitian in the first century or take the Duc of Bourgogne, Phillipe le Hardy during the 15th century, they concocted laws to regulate how and where wine can be made. Politicians and people in power always wanted to control how the wine could be produced or sold.