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Aligoté is a white grape used to make dry white wines, especially in the Burgundy region of France where it was first recorded in the 18th century. [1] Since it is tolerant to cold, this variety is also cultivated in Eastern European countries. In 2004, it was the 22nd most planted vine variety in the world at 45,000 hectares (110,000 acres). [2]
Torrontés wine tasting in Cafayate, Argentina. White wine is a wine that is fermented without skin contact.The colour can be straw-yellow, yellow-green, or yellow-gold. [1] It is produced by the alcoholic fermentation of the non-coloured pulp of grapes, which may have a skin of any colour.
An 18th-century syllabub glass. Syllabub is a sweet dish made by curdling sweet cream or milk with an acid such as wine or cider. It was a popular British confection from the 16th to the 19th centuries. [1] Early recipes for syllabub are for a drink of cider with milk. By the 17th century it had evolved into a type of dessert made with sweet ...
In 2011, a bottle of this 19th century vintage sold at a London auction for $117,000, setting a record for the most expensive bottle of white wine ever sold. Known as one of the greatest vintages ...
An antimonial cup was a small half-pint mug or cup cast in antimony popular in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. They were also known under the names "pocula emetica," "calices vomitorii," or "emetic cups", as wine that was kept in one for a 24‑hour period gained an emetic or laxative quality.
Under Roman rule, in the century and a half BC, the majority of the wine consumed in the area was required by law to be Italian in origin, [4] as the distribution of fragments of wine amphorae found throughout Gaul after about 100 BC, especially along the coasts and rivers, suggests: some of the earliest amphorae, from the 2nd century BC, bear ...
The phrase kir royal is used when white wine is replaced with a Champagne wine. A simple glass of red wine, such as Beaujolais nouveau, can also be presented as an apéritif, accompanied by amuse-bouches. Some apéritifs can be fortified wines with added herbs, such as cinchona, gentian and vermouth.
Over the years, hock-shaped bottles have come to signify sweet, cheap wine in general. [ 2 ] The term seems to have been in use in the 17th century, initially for white wines (predominantly Riesling) from the Rheingau , but in the 18th century it came to be used for any German white wine sold in Britain, to convey some of the then very high ...