Since 1986, Sizzling August Nights has been a premier showcase for traditional vehicles, customized scorching rods and different unique autos in Reno, Sparks and Virginia Metropolis.
August is not the time to be driving your mother’s 1980 Chevrolet Quotation round Reno. It’s additionally not the time to be consuming your mother’s white wine. Don’t get me mistaken; August is an ideal time to drink cool, refreshing white wines, however simply as with the vehicles at Sizzling August Nights, why not take pleasure in wines which might be basic, customized or unique?
Step one find your hot-rod wine: Ponder the traits of what you usually drink. Do you usually drink an easy-riding, luxurious Cadillac of a chardonnay, with wealthy oak and buttery gentle leather-based? Maybe you drink a stripped-down sauvignon blanc that hugs the curves of your glass? Is it fruity, acidic (bitter), mineral, tannic, spicy or earthy?
With a view to discover wines which have the high-gloss end and RPMs we want, I spoke to Amanda Flangas, one of many homeowners of Midtown Spirits Wine and Bites, at 1527 S. Virginia St. I requested her in regards to the white wines now being served.
“Each week, we modify our wines by the glass, each reds and whites,” she stated. “We now have a unique providing of whites each week in hopes that we’ll introduce our patrons to some wines that perhaps they may not acknowledge proper off the bat. So, as an example, we all the time have a very nice French glowing. I’ll say glowing rosés and glowing white proper now in our place are very, very talked-about. It’s scorching, proper?”
Now for the subsequent step: Discover a customized, unique wine that has the identical traits of your on a regular basis drinker—particularly fruit notes.
In case your wine has citrus fruit notes—like lemons, limes, grapefruits or oranges—you seemingly take pleasure in extra acidic wines. Extra widespread wines like sauvignon blanc, glowing whites and pinot gris typically have these traits—however if you wish to impress your folks or just take pleasure in one thing much less widespread, strive ordering an albariño, vermentino, verdejo, assyrtiko, roussanne or picpoul.
Followers of stone fruits, like nectarines, peaches and apricots, have a tendency to seek out these notes in a chardonnay, pinot gris or riesling. Some wines that can flip heads that even have these flavors embrace chenin blanc, grenache blanc and grüner veltliner.
“I’ve a really numerous clientele with folks of their 30s to their 80s, and plenty of are, like, ‘We wish strictly imports; we would like nothing from the States.’”
Morgan Brody, Midtown Spirits Wine and Bites
Flavors of tropical fruits—pineapple, mango, kiwi, lychee and fervour fruit—may be present in on a regular basis drinkers like sauvignon blanc, chardonnay and pinot grigio. If you need extra of those tropical flavors in a horny, unique wine, you would possibly wish to strive a gewürztraminer, marsanne, soave or an airén.
Morgan Brody, the final supervisor and wine-buyer at Midtown Spirits Wine and Bites, stated she’s seen a rise in prospects asking particularly for imported wines.
“I’ve a really numerous clientele with folks of their 30s to their 80s, and plenty of are, like, ‘We wish strictly imports; we would like nothing from the States,’” she stated. “Verdejo, vermentino, sancerre and albariño are all nice choices for them, from France, Italy and Spain.”
These can all be nice decisions—and lead completely into the final taste profile I wish to point out: minerality.
Minerality typically presents itself in wine as saltiness, a stone-like taste and even chalkiness. These flavors may be very onerous to explain or clarify—however they’ll additionally create the “spine” of a wine. A few of our on a regular basis consuming wines that have a tendency to supply these mineral flavors embrace riesling, pinot gris and sauvignon blanc. If you wish to actually lean in for extra mineral horsepower, strive a chablis, sancerre, albariño, muscadet or a vinho verde.
Simply as I hope you recognize all the gorgeous autos you’ll see on the Sizzling August Nights occasions, I hope you’ll strive a few of these extra unique wines. In case you are uncertain, cease in and get a wine flight from Amanda or Morgan—and inform them you need a scorching rod wine!