Thousands of years ago, somebody stored a keg
of grape wine for far too long and when they returned to drink it, they instead discovered a sour, non-alcoholic liquid.
That vinicultural honor still belongs to the Yellow Valley of China, where researchers uncovered chemical evidence
of grape wine — fortified with fruit wine, rice beer, and honey mead — dating back to 7000 B.C.E.
Not exact matches
Margaret River
grape growers might hate the idea
of a coal mine in their backyard, but unless the outlook for Australian
wine improves they might have to change their minds.
In keeping with the higher demand for red
wine, Wine Industry Association of WA chief executive officer Sarah Dent said there had been a large increase in red grape plantings nationw
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Wine Industry Association of WA chief executive officer Sarah Dent said there had been a large increase in red grape plantings nationw
Wine Industry Association
of WA chief executive officer Sarah Dent said there had been a large increase in red
grape plantings nationwide.
The South West remains by far the largest
wine producing area in the State in terms
of total area and production, with 9,208 hectares
of vines producing more than 54,000 t
of grapes.
The
grapes for the recently released 2011
wine are sourced from each
of their family's properties — 50 percent from Angelina's and 50 percent from Rob's.
After 10 years
of growing
grapes for some
of Washington's most prestigious
wine labels, the Milbrandts decided to launch their own.
Margaret River heads the regions in terms
of wine grape crush numbers, accounting for more than 22,000 t, or 43.7 per cent,
of the State's crush, followed by the Great Southern area with 10,594 t.
«Think
of Gamay as Pinot Noir's little - sister
grape,» says Norris, who was recently included in
Wine Enthusiast's list
of America's Top 40 under 40 Tastemakers list.
And I hired a consultant and bought some
grapes from my neighbor just so I could start the learning process
of actually making
wine.
The Sierra foothills are a very old
wine - growing region because
of the gold rush: The miners would plant vines, harvest the fruit, ferment the
grapes... it gave them something alcoholic to drink.
Instead, it's using chemicals instead
of grapes or fermentation to replicate
wine.
While most winemakers focus on the quality
of the
grapes and the effect that soil and weather conditions have had on each year's harvest, Lee and his partners — Mardonn Chua (who like Lee has a biotech background) and Josh Decolongon (a sommelier)-- view the creation
of wine as a chemistry experiment, bonding a combination
of amino acids, sugars, ethanol and other elements together.
Some
grapes are notoriously lower yielding, while inexpensive
wines would use hearty
grapes that can resist almost anything and still yield lots
of juice.
Land - the first element
of cost in any
wine is the land that the
grapes are grown on.
Premium estates might yield 2 tons
of grapes or less an acre with bulk
wines yielding many times this amount.
A ton
of grapes yields around 720 bottles
of wine, so that's only 1,440 per acre - with some super premium
wines well below this figure.
Grapes - the grapes that are used for the wine are also important and particularly the yield of the grapes in tons per
Grapes - the
grapes that are used for the wine are also important and particularly the yield of the grapes in tons per
grapes that are used for the
wine are also important and particularly the yield
of the
grapes in tons per
grapes in tons per acre.
Once upon a time, she notes, liter bottles
of Grüner Veltliner, a white
wine grape from central Europe, were the hot commodity.
The staff at Swartland helped her select
grapes from their 90 - plus producers, and gave her access to their winemaker so that she could get the style
of wine she wanted.
Clients work with Cipresso in his state -
of - the - art
wine lab, housed in a separate house with underground cellars, tasting
grape varietals such as Montelpulciano and Aleatico and picking their favourites to be blended.
Isn't all
wine the natural result
of grapes fermenting?
The
grapes have to be grown there and the
wine has to be produced according to the rules
of the Comité Interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne.
First, find your
wine in the database
of over 500,000 labels, including 50,000 brands from 14,000 geographical areas with thousands
of grapes.
The
wine - making process, from crushing
of grapes to fermentation, is thousands
of years old.
In a small red barn just outside
of New Ross, in rural Nova Scotia, business partners Dominic Rivard and Germain Bergeron are crafting cider, fruit
wine and liquor with handpicked apples and
grapes...
Whenever a discussion
of alcohol comes up among members
of my congregation, and someone mentions the story about Jesus turning water into
wine for his first public miracle, one point is inevitably made: that the
wine back then was watered down so much it had little or no alcoholic content, making it barely more than
grape juice.
I've munched down on quite a bit
of bread dipped in
wine or
grape juice in Protestant churches.
A United Church
of Christ minister confided that he uses
grape juice in his cup while the congregation receives fermented
wine — a deception he feels he can not share with his official board or parishioners, but a necessary one following hospital treatment for alcoholism (his absence was reported as a hunting trip in Canada).
What I do And what I dream include thee, as the
wine Must taste
of its own
grapes.
When I was at uni, our Friday night contemplative prayer group would have a meal together before the praying and we'd have the bread and
wine (or
grape juice) as part
of the meal.
That was written in a time when it was true, before Christians argued over how many angels can fit on the head
of a pin, whether to use
grape juiceor
wine in the communion class, and whether women should wear doilies on their head when they pray, and a myriad
of other stupid destructive timewasting ideologies designed to keep us running around with 1 foot nailed to the floor.
He digged it and cleared it
of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst
of it, and hewed out a
wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield
grapes, but it yielded wild
grapes.
In most churches, the elements consist
of grape juice (or
wine) and an unleavened wafer.
For over a thousand years, Communion, the Eucharist, or the Lord's Supper has usually entailed little more than a bit
of bread and a tiny taste
of wine or
grape juice.
Seeing Jesus as the «lion
of the tribe
of Judah,» Cyprian quotes Genesis 49: 11, «He shall wash his raiment in
wine and his robe in the blood
of the
grape,» and comments that whenever reference is made to the blood
of the
grape, then «this can signify only that in the Lord's cup the blood is
wine.»
Cyprian makes the obvious point that clothing can not become ruddy if water alone is present in the
wine vat, and goes on to emphasise the link between the
grapes being trampled upon and the blood
of Christ, which could not have been produced unless Christ «had first been trodden upon and pressed.»
This point is made in the following quotation from Isaiah 63:2 concerning clothing being made «ruddy» through the process
of treading
grapes in the
wine vat.
I am trying to find out when it happened that the Lord's Supper turned into a highly ritualized service using a tiny quantity
of wine or
grape juice and unleavened bread.
I believe such a community is like a fine cabernet sauvignon
wine: the main flavor is the particular
grape, but then it has notes
of oak, leather, licorice and pepper.
Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in
wine, and his clothes in the blood
of grapes: His eyes shall be red with
wine, and his teeth white with milk.
In the book
of Deuteronomy it is said, «For their vine came from the vine
of Sodom, and from the fields
of Gomorrah; their
grapes are
grapes of poison, their clusters are bitter; their
wine is the poison
of serpents and the cruel venom
of asps.»
Wine is prepared from
grapes, which could never have grown without the help
of water; and the same is true
of those drinks which in England and other places they produce from fruit....
«vines shall grow, each having 10,000 shoots, and on each shoot 10,000 branches, and on each branch again l0, 000 twigs, and on each twig 10,000 clusters, and on each cluster 10,000
grapes, and each
grape when pressed shall yield 25 measures
of wine...»
Today most
grapes are
of the French, Italian and Spanish varieties, which is why United States
wines are on the same level quality-wise as these more commonly known French
wines.
Spain has some
of the best values in red
wines, especially the
wines from the Rioja region all based on the Tempranillo
grape.»
Advances in planting and
grape hybrid technology have made it possible for any region
of the world to produce a
wine of any variety and quality.
Santorini labels will go up against those
of Chablis, premium Greek
wine country Naoussa against Bordeaux and Greece's ancient Malvasia
grape variety against France's sweet Muscat.
DNA sequencing to create fine
wine: The West Australian Department
of Agriculture and Food (DAFWA) and the University
of Western Australia (UWA) are leading a national project that uses
grape genome sequencing to examine how DNA make - up
of the vine affects the taste and quality
of wine...
Dedicated to growing
wine naturally, the winery introduced its natural farming and conservation program with goals
of worker health, environmental protection and enhanced
grape quality.