Basically a Valpolicella where the grapes are dried on racks till around January, then giving very little juice when crushed…but oh, that precious ultra concentrated juice makes for amazing red wine! Deli items…Olives, Spanish Sardines, Mussels and even Pulpo (Octopus) true Italian Balsamic and...
“Well I can’t just quit beer for 2014 and leave all my coffee stouts to fade, that would be fucking dumb,” Daryl opined while showing off the opulent IKEA racks in his leaky cellar lit by a single bulb. “I will probably carbo load with all my hoppy beers just before the New Ye...
The quality of the space is much improved, too, with the old industrial shelving replaced in part by the sort of dark wood cases and racks that you see at fine wine shops. Good news! A big investment like this suggests optimism about the future of the wine market. A second glance ...
The quality of the space is much improved, too, with the old industrial shelving replaced in part by the sort of dark wood cases and racks that you see at fine wine shops. Good news! A big investment like this suggests optimism about the future of the wine market. A second glance ...
Bringing wine into the US on the plane is easier than you think, though, and you have a couple of options for flying with alcohol. If you only plan to bring back a couple of bottles, there are various types of wine bottle packaging you can purchase ahead of your trip. A wine travel...
Dry and vibrant with a mouthful of juicy red berries, dark chocolate, herb and savoury spice flavours weighty on the palate. Jip Jip Rocks 2017 60% Shiraz, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon red blend is a great value. The Jip Jip rocks are an outcrop of 350 million year old red granite near the...
First impression–ItfeltJersey. It was kind of a business-y strip mall, and when I walked in through the opaque glass doors (kind of like all cars in Jersey are tinted), it was a large room, with plenty of wine racks, and lots of boxes lining the walls. Somewhat orderly, somewhat ...
In mid August 2023, Steve and Faith opened FolkLore, a unique space in downtown Napa which offers racks of vinyl, an eclectic collection ranging from Johnny Cash to Van Halen, a café, a wine bar and a soon to be radio station broadcast room. Steve and Faith own this building, the You...
racks in well-ventilated rooms, where they are partially dried for approximately 40 days. A second part is left hanging on the vines until it reaches super-ripeness, to be harvested during the first ten days of October, and then pressed. After fermentation the wines obtained are aged ...
the grapes are left on the vine for longer then usual through the dehydration on the vines. An alternative method is to let the grapes dry on racks for 15 days. These grapes are dried until they have lost 10 to 15% of their original weight. The vinification process is very gentle. De...