{"id":34511,"date":"2022-05-30T09:58:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T09:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.news.winesofromania.com\/dev\/mixing-assembling-or-coupling\/"},"modified":"2022-08-28T17:00:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T17:00:38","slug":"mixing-assembling-or-coupling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.winesofromania.com\/en\/mixing-assembling-or-coupling\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixing, assembling or coupling"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"34511\" class=\"elementor elementor-34511 elementor-31078\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c72791c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c72791c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-663af8a\" data-id=\"663af8a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-89e3bd3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"89e3bd3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Community legislation in the field of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union, &#8220;coupage&#8221; means the blending of wines or musts of different origins, from different vine varieties, from different vintage years or from different categories of wine or must.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wine Spectator<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, cupaj and assemblage are words of French origin, referring to the blending of wine before bottling. As the English language does not let itself down, we also have blend, which still means mixture.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What a wealth of terms for the fine operations that go on in the cellars to bring the liquor called wine into our glasses!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any physical action that brings two miscible liquids together is called mixing. But not the coupling. We could make a fruit juice and water mixture, but that doesn&#8217;t mean we&#8217;ll drink a fruit juice and water coupe. Or the famous sprit, either wine with water or wine with &#8220;cola&#8221; (sic!). They are mixtures of liquids, not cups.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, let&#8217;s split the difference:<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cupaj = a term of French origin, meaning &#8220;to cut&#8221;, which theoretically is the correction of a slight defect by combining a less successful wine with a good one.  <\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of Murphy&#8217;s laws states that: &#8220;If you put a drop of wine in a barrel of sewage, the result is a barrel of sewage. If you put a drop of sewage in a barrel of wine, it&#8217;s still a barrel of sewage.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, coupage is much more than simply correcting a bad wine with a good one. But the term would be good to use when blending different categories of wine or must. Mixing a wine\/ must with designation of origin with one with geographical indication, we could obtain only wine with geographical or varietal indication, i.e. Murphy&#8217;s second postulate.<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If it is a blend of wines or musts of different origins or from different vintage years it should be called <\/span><b>equalisation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\/ <\/span><b>blending<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This equalization is usually done with a single variety, the so-called monovarietal or monosepage wine (from the French monoc\u00e9page).<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If it is a mixture of different varieties, it should be called <\/span><b>blend <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(en.), all the more so if this blending is done before vinification, <\/span><b>when the grapes are mixed<\/b> <b>from different varieties<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to give complexity to the wine.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If it is a mixture of different varieties, it can also be called <\/span><b>cuvee<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (fr.) \/ <\/span><b>blend<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  (en.), the French term coming from the mixing of two or more vats (vessels) with wine. Cuvee is mainly used in the production of sparkling wines, when blending the base wines before the second fermentation.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If it&#8217;s a blend of great wines that together raise the value of the finished wine even higher, then it should be called <\/span><b>blend<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span> <\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you can see, the Romanian language is the one that puts us to the test!  <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sources:<\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winespectator.com\/articles\/what-is-the-difference-between-assemblage-and-coupage-52712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.winespectator.com\/articles\/what-is-the-difference-between-assemblage-and-coupage-52712<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/naveran.com\/en\/coupage-what-are-they-and-why-are-they-so-important\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/naveran.com\/en\/coupage-what-are-they-and-why-are-they-so-important\/<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.winetuning.com\/coupage.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/en.winetuning.com\/coupage.php<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/dexonline.ro\/definitie\/cupaj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/dexonline.ro\/definitie\/cupaj<\/span><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Community legislation in the field of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union, &#8220;coupage&#8221; means the blending of wines or musts of different origins, from different vine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-all"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.winesofromania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.winesofromania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.winesofromania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winesofromania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winesofromania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winesofromania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winesofromania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.winesofromania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winesofromania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winesofromania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}