Trending now in our wine cellar!

During the Christmas time many new drinks occupy our drink lists. In Friggas Wine Cellar we recommend with meat courses dark German beer, made always using these three elements: water, barley and hops, no artificial additives.
From our wine list we take this time Señorio de Chical from Valdepeñas, vintage 2004 and Tempranillo
(p 1990257). To surprise your friends, open a bottle of Palacio de Monsalud from Extremadura, vintage 1998,vintage 1998 (N:377374),Tempranillo and Garnacha.
With salmon and other fish dishes we can open a white wine L'Antigon, semi sweet from Villar de Arzobispo,
Macabeo and Merseguera (table wine, with price and quality ratio good)
With strong cheeses and dessert we offer Lignell&Piispanen Artic Bramble Liqueur. This one and same company's Arctic Cloudberry Liqueur is in our Aroma Aurora Borealis trend list.
To open the festivities try Spanish sparkling wine (Cava) Freixenet Carta Negra.

Happy Christmas
CHEF THOR

THE NORDIC BERRIES AND FOREST YIELDS, NEW TOOLS TO VALUE WINES

To explain the aroma, "bouquet",flavour,scent and taste in  the wines which we taste and give more information for the consumer ,are touchable, concrete and existing things.Again I will explain that these arguments which we use to value, is for Nordic ecologically orientated  people, but everybody can use it in his own environment.

The fruit tastes which we use in valuing the wines ,means  that the "sommelier" must have a  knowledge in Nordic berries and forest plants.When you have it , there is a World which the Vikings was looking after in Vinland.

These are  for the RUNE INDEX calibrated nature products:

 I .Wild Berries from the Nordic forests:

Arctic bramble (Rubus arcticus), Blackberry (Rubus fructicosus),Blueberry (Vaccinium myrtillus),Bog whortleberry (Vaccinium uliginosum), Buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides), Cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorum),

Cranberry (Oxycoccus cuadripetalus),Lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea),Rasberry ( Rubus idaeus), Rowanberry (Sorbus aucuparia),Stone bramble ( Rubus saxatilis),Strawberry, forest (Fragaria vesca), 

II .Wild Mushrooms from the Nordic forests:

Yellowfoot, dried (Cantharellus tubaeformis), Matsutake, fresh (Tricholoma matsutake)

III.Other edible things from the nature:

Hazel nut (Corylus avellana), Honey,wild flower, (Mellis),Malt (barley, Hordeum vulgare),Oak ( Quercus robur ),Resin (Pinus sylvestris), Sap (birch, Betula pendula)

There is one new area in our INDEX, and that is mushrooms and specially MATSUTAKE.

We will study all the time things what happens in the"WINE WORLD"and if there is something that doesn't fit in our ENOLOGICAL INDEX RUNE we take it in consideration.

SOMMELIER THOR

SCANPOLAR ENOLOGICAL INDEX (RUNE)

Scanpolar has created a new index for an average wine consumer to understand better everything that happens in the wine producing countries and to reveal the real secrets of making a VERY GOOD WINE. Our guiding principle is only to guarantee the STATUS, which a good wine has all over the world. Every one can value and taste wine  with  his own methods and doctrines which he has learned during the long history of wine making.
We only bring to the market an INDEX ,with which the consumer can value a wine without studying several years in a specialized enological school. Our criteria is following:

Environment where the wine was cultivated

+ no superficial soil pollution                 +no artificial irrigation

+no atmospheric pollution                     +no herbicides

+no artificial fertilizers                           +no insecticides

Chemical restrictions before it was bottled

+no additives                                        +no colorants

The wine bottle

+cork (material)                                    +etiquette (character)           +bottle (design)

The "bouquet" of the wine

+colour                                                 +scent                                  +traditions

+acidity balance                                    +Thing (Scanpolar jury)

The maximum that one wine can have is RUNE 18. Our unit name  RUNE comes from the old Norse language which meant letter or symbol for something.

There are lot of things and concepts which Scanpolar uses in its activities which are origin of Viking and Norse mythology.

CHEF THOR  (Thor= God of the thunder in Norse religion)

The wonderful world of wines and other traditional drinks

This blog will be a  simple gateway to the marvelous world of wines, beers,whiskies and other alcoholic beverages. It let the reader decide what he likes to drink and what he thinks is the best way to enjoy and mix it. In Friggas Wine Cellar we have an old Viking atmosphere to remember those warriors who sailed to Vineland the home of Nordic spiritual sentiments. Here you are the Sommelier of Chef Thor.

CHEF THOR