Wine Glass Porn

Posted by Andrew Barrow, 2:05am 03/07/2007. Leave a comment

In the food blogging world decent, quality, professional looking food pictures are known as 'food-porn'. I guess that the equivalent for the wine world would be wine-porn. Maybe bottle-porn? There are a million and one ways to prepare and present food. Wine is either in a bottle, in a glass or spilt on the Debenhams picnic rug.

Being a budding photographer I fancied a little 'wine-porn' on the blog today. I've tried it in black and white, sepia toned and heavily photoshopped, but for such a simple image the original works best.

For such a picture the actual wine is superfluous. For info purposes it is our Il Faggio Montepulciano d'Abruzzo (£5.99).

Opened on a whim by the venerated Mr Chapman 'because it is dull and raining' a glass was proffered with a 'blog about this, boyo' command. (I should point out that Mr Chapman is not Welsh).

As with many Italian wines the action is on the palate, rather than the nose, with a richness to the fruit I found surprising and delicious. Many similar wines can seem dried out, even with food, but this has a sweet edge to the fruit and a nice food-friendly stance in the middle.

While a glass washed down the lunchtime ham sandwich, baked lasagna or rabbit casserole would be a perfect match; and another opportunity to practice those food-porn shots.

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