"Wine appreciation is a Pandora's box," Hanni says. "The wine-training program would teach them about the 'Big Six' grapes. They sold a lot of sangria and white zinfandel. But [those grapes] are not in the Big Six. So they would recommend something else, and the customers wouldn't ...
Both are made from grapes grown in volcanic soils; as Ilaria Petitto, proprietor of Donnachiara, a leading producer of these whites, notes: "Eruptions of Mount Vesuvius over the centuries have created these soils, as winds have pushed the ashes of lava to the inland areas of Campania." The...
One, commonly used in sparkling wine production, refers to the early stages of extracting juice from grapes. “It’s our first cut from the press, the best juice,” says Zak Miller, sparkling winemaker for Domaine Carneros in California’s Napa Valley. Also referred to as “free-run” ...
aThis is a high-quality vintage wine of the harvest of 1984-1993, produced from Cabernet-Sauvignon grapes, grown on the vineyards of the Central and Southern parts of Moldova and aged for years in oak barrels. The wine can be remarked for its delicate bouquet and exquisite flavour.Cabernet ...
“You can make bad wine with great grapes but you can’t make great wine with bad grapes.”-Robert Mondavi When you simmer down all the many processes involved in growing great grapes, there are essentially two areas of consideration: ...
This unique winemaking style produces big, bold reds and intensely sweet wines by drying fresh grapes in various ways.
So I always say that orange wine is like making red wine out of white grapes. So usually when you make a white wine, you crush the grapes, you’ll press them and you’re left with a clear liquid. With orange wine, what you do is you crush the white grapes, but then you actually...
grapes that make up the majority of Brazil’s wine production, you’ll find producers working with a wide variety of Vitis vinifera vines, from international varieties like Chardonnay, Merlot, and Cabernet Sauvignon, to Italian grapes like Teroldego and Barbera, to Portuguese varieties like Tinta ...
@tamsin - I wouldn't try it. You'll have to either order some tannin powder or use real grapes (which have tannin in their skin and seeds). Making your own alcohol is a tricky business at the best of times and substitutions, such as tea tannin for grape tannin, can cause all kinds...
The Cabernet harvest began straight after the Merlot nearly everywhere, and most grapes were in by mid-October under ideal conditions. There was around 20°C difference between the day and night temperatures, with plenty of sun and a southwest wind that meant any rainfall dried out in a...