Food
Blue wine. Guess it’s a thing now. Gik is the Spanish company that made waves in the wine industry over a year ago with its new concoction, which blends red and white grapes with organic pigments and flavors, resulting in a sweet, blue-tinted wine that has intrigued some and outraged others.
Taste-wise, blue wine is said to be reminiscent of a cross between a wine cooler, a cocktail mixer, and juice. Obviously, it won’t really appeal to the snooty wine purist crowd, but if you’re rather liberal and adventurous when it comes to all things booze, perhaps you’d like to give it a go — if just for the ‘gram — ’cause it has finally made its way to our shores.
Besides ordering bottles online ($55 each) — on the official Singapore site or retail platforms like RedMart — and hosting blue wine-fuelled parties, you can also sip on the unusual drink at Blue Willow, a new blue-themed cafe in Clementi.
Gik, a bright blue wine from Bierzo in northwest Spain made with red and white grapes.
Brought to you by the team behind Fresh Fruits Lab and Harry Potter cafe Platform 1094, the bistro serves up glasses ($13) of the blue beverage for those who simply want to sample it to understand the hype. Apparently, the menu also offers other blue-hued options such as blue carbonara with sous vide egg and rocket leaves, blue pancakes with blue maple sago, blueberries, and butterfly pea, and a dome-shaped mousse cake that’s — surprise, surprise — a shade of blue.
As for the blue wine itself, only time will tell whether it sticks around or winds up being just another novel millennial invention. Move over, pink rosé?
