The increase in home wine making has contributed significantly, with hundreds of thousands of people around the world making their own wine instead of buying it. These people often make their own labels as well, or use online label companies. Homemade labels range from ink jet printing on copy...
A universal factor in the production of fine wine is timing. This includes picking grapes at the right time, removing the must at the right time, monitoring and regulating fermentation, and storing the wine long enough. The wine-making process can be divided into four distinct steps: ...
Canada's distilling history goes back more than 200 years and is as long as that of the USA. It has a more distinctive Scottish influence, which explains why it spells whisky without the "e". John Molson is usually acknowledged as the first distiller, opening his stills in 1799. There wa...
See E. Peynaud, Knowing and Making Wine (1984); H. Johnson, Vintage (1989) and Modern Encyclopedia of Wine (4th ed. 1998); S. Spurrier and M. Dovaz, Wine Course (1990); R. Phillips, A Short History of Wine (2001); J. Robinson, Oxford Companion to Wine (3d ed., 2006); P....
TheMissiongrape variety – known here as Pais – was widely planted during this time, and became the mainstay of country wines for domestic consumption. It is most common inMauleandBio Bioin the south, mainly grown by older farmers making field blends, but it is beginning to feature in man...
At Chateau Feely, they are making a 12.5% Alc.Vol. red wine, Vivacité, which is a big step in the direction of low alcohol red wines. Caro and her husband Sean have been one of several wine makers at the forefront of the organic wine industry in the region. They have been ...
However, the northerly climate of the region gave the Champenois a unique set of challenges in making red wine. At the far extremes of sustainable viticulture, the grapes would struggle to ripen fully and often would have bracing levels of acidity and low sugar levels. The wines would be ...
Domain Bousquetwas founded in 1990 in the high-altitude desert in Tupungato Uco Valley in Mendoza, Argentina, on the pure vision, passion, and conviction of its founder, Jean Bousquet. Jean was told that he is making a mistake of his life when he purchased 1,000 acres of nothing but dr...
There is a clear cost to everything that happens in making a wine kosher, and those people deserve to be paid. A few hands in there also need to be paid for fronting the money, marketing, and so on. However, the per-bottle “kosher tax” does not need to be commensurate with the ...
Wikipedia 1. a.an alcoholic drink produced by the fermenting of grapes with water and sugar b.an alcoholic drink produced in this way from other fruits, flowers, etc. 2.a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge 3.PharmacolObsoletefermented grape juice containing medicaments ...