toast

If you think the preference for heavily oaked wines, otherwise known as ‘toasted’ wines, is  something particular from the late 20th century, I have to disappoint you. It seems that already in the Middle Ages, the taste of toasted bread in wine was appreciated. It was realized by adding a piece of bread browned at the fire to a jug of wine or any other beverage of the time … [Lees meer...] over‘Cherry wine, good with a tost to drink’: on toast and toasting