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According to Trent Stewart, co-owner of Golden Age Wine in Birmingham, Alabama, the best way to store wine is by putting the screwcap or cork back on the bottle and placing the bottle in the ...
A place where grape vines are grown for wine making purposes. Vintage The year in which a particular wine's grapes were harvested. When a vintage year is indicated on a label, it signifies that all the grapes used to make the wine in the bottle were harvested in that year. Viticulture The cultivation of grapes. Not to be confused with viniculture.
Spanish wine label term meaning "bottled by" Élevage French term for the historical role that négociants play in the winemaking process-roughly translating as "bringing up" or "raising" the wine. Traditionally négociants would buy ready made wines after fermentation, blend and then store the wine before bringing them to the market. En primeur
A white wine, usually sparkling, made exclusively from white grapes, often Chardonnay. Blanc de Noirs A white wine, usually sparkling, made from red grapes. Blending The mixing of two or more different parcels of wine together by winemakers to produce a consistent finished wine that is ready for bottling.
Oenophilia (/ ˌ iː n ə ˈ f ɪ l i ə / EE-nə-FIL-ee-ə; [1] from Greek for 'love of wine', see oinos and -philia), in the strictest sense, describes a disciplined devotion to wine, accompanying strict traditions of consumption and appreciation. In a general sense however, oenophilia simply refers to the enjoyment of wine, often by laymen.
Past the three red dots on the windows of Stop N Save in Myrtle Beach, Nick Patel looks out onto bottles of tequila and triple sec. “You can see (the dots) everywhere, I mean, all liquor stores.
The first vintage of Penfolds Grange was made on an experimental basis in 1951 by Penfolds winemaker Max Schubert and were largely given away at the time. [2] Having toured Europe in 1950, Schubert implemented wine-making techniques observed in Bordeaux upon his return, aiming to create a red wine able to rival the finest Bordeaux wines both in terms of quality and ageing potential.
Hermitage (French pronunciation:) is a French wine Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) in the northern Rhône wine region of France south of Lyon. It produces mostly red wine from the Syrah grape; however, small quantities of white wine are also produced from Roussane and Marsanne grapes. The hill is seen by some as the spiritual home of ...