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Red wine is a type of wine made from dark-colored grape varieties.The color of the wine can range from intense violet, typical of young wines, through to brick red for mature wines and brown for older red wines.
Chian was credited as the first red wine, although it was known to the Greeks as "black wine". [65] [66] Coan was mixed with sea water and famously salty; [67] Pramnian or Lesbian wine was a famous export as well. Aristotle mentions Lemnian wine, which was probably the same as the modern-day Lemnió varietal, a red wine with a bouquet of ...
Wine. Wine is an alcoholic drink made from fermented fruit. Yeast consumes the sugar in the fruit and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide, releasing heat in the process. Wine is most often made from grapes, and the term "wine" generally refers to grape wine when used without any qualification. Even so, wine can be made from a variety of ...
Winemaking. Wine grapes from the Guadalupe Valley in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. Winemaking, wine-making, or vinification is the production of wine, starting with the selection of the fruit, its fermentation into alcohol, and the bottling of the finished liquid. The history of wine -making stretches over millennia.
Pinot noir. Romanée-Conti, among the world's most expensive wines, is made from Pinot noir. Pinot noir ( French: [pino nwaʁ] ⓘ ), also known as Pinot nero, is a red- wine grape variety of the species Vitis vinifera. The name also refers to wines created predominantly from Pinot noir grapes. The name is derived from the French words for pine ...
Cabernet Sauvignon ( French: [kabɛʁnɛ soviɲɔ̃]) is one of the world's most widely recognized red wine grape varieties. It is grown in nearly every major wine producing country among a diverse spectrum of climates from Australia and British Columbia, Canada to Lebanon's Beqaa Valley.
History of American wine. The Brotherhood Winery, in Washingtonville, New York, is the longest continual winery in the United States; [ 1] it was built in 1838. The history of American wine began when the first Europeans explored parts of North America, which they called Vinland because of the profusion of grape vines found there.
Chianti [a] is an Italian red wine produced in the Chianti region of central Tuscany, principally from the Sangiovese grape. It was historically associated with a squat bottle enclosed in a straw basket, called a fiasco ("flask"; pl.: fiaschi ). However, the fiasco is now only used by a few makers of the wine; most Chianti is bottled in more ...