While most things about wine are as different as the pantone colors of a rainbow observed from different vantage points, one thing is always the same today: how many ounces are in a bottle of wine. Your typical, 750 ml bottle of wine, that is.
In general, a winemaker expects to get slightly more than two 60-gallon barrels of wine from 1 ton of grapes. To take it a little further, 1 gallon is equivalent to about 3.8 liters, and a 12-bottle case of wine is 9 liters, so 1 ton of grapes is roughly equivalent to 120 ...
Yet despite all these caveats, the wine-and-morels combo is lauded by many foodies. Wine Enthusiastmagazine describes morels as "very versatile," pairing well with both white and red wine, and a quick Internet search for "morels in wine sauce" yields dozens of recipes from reputable publicatio...
Good wine is one of life's greatest pleasures. Whether you are a novice or a connoisseur, interested in simply sipping or expertly analyzing, enjoying a glass of wine can be a sublime experience. Unfortunately, many people find wine and how to choose, serve, and describe it more intimidatin...
The word “gallon” may also have come from the Gaulish (Gaul covered most of modern day France) word “galla” meaning “vessel”. I guess everybody likes their wine in large containers! In U.S. measurements, a gallon is 3.785 liters. A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds. Today ...
Just be sure to call ahead to make sure there’s someone to receive you and that the winery in question allows tours. Many wineries in Spain allow visits, and the cost is in the single digits or even free of charge for a tour and a taste of one of the vintages made on site. Read...
Unlike the more common cruise ships that ferry people from port to port in the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and some many other corners of the world (including Antartica), these old-school ocean liners still offer that original voyage that so many people signed up for: trans-Atlantic sea pass...
600 personal exemption. Unlike other items, any amount over the duty-free limit will be taxed, even if you haven’t reached your exemption limit. For example, if your exemption is $800 and you bring back three liters of wine, only one liter will be duty-free, and the other two will...
ok, now to see if i can buy a cup of raisens (8oz, now i know) for a 1 gallon wine brew batch, hmm maybe on February 10, 2006 06:27 PM #bpsaid: ok to the previous posters clf, 4 liters is a bit more than a gallon, by about half a cup, a gallon is 128 ounces i th...
One drawback with these ceramic filters is the speed of filtration. The water seeps out the clay filter at a rate of just 2 liters (2.11 quarts) per hour. But the process needs to be slow in order to give the silver solution time to kill pathogens. The filter also does not remove ...