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2. Georg Josef Riedel - Wikipedia

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   Georg Josef Riedel (born December 16, 1949) is an Austrian glassmaker and businessman. He is the 10th-generation owner of Riedel (glass manufacturer) established in 1756 and best known for its production of grape variety-specific glassware designed to enhance types of wines based on specific properties of individual grape varieties.

3. Riedel (glass manufacturer) - Wikipedia

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   Riedel (/ ˈ r iː d əl / REE-dəl) Crystal is a glassware manufacturer based in Kufstein, Austria, best known for its glassware designed to enhance different types of wines.. According to Petr Novy, Chief curator Museum of Glass and Jewellery in Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic, [1] Riedel is the oldest family owned and operated global crystal glass brand world

4. Maximilian Riedel - Wikipedia

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   In 1995, at age 18, Maximilian Riedel served eight months in the Austria Bundesheer where he was involved in humanitarian work. At 18 he also began apprenticing his father Georg Riedel at Riedel Crystal, who had learned glassmaking and the family business from his father, Claus Josef Riedel, the first to discover that the shape, size and color of glassware affect how we enjoy wine, and ...

5. Claus Josef Riedel - Wikipedia

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   After ten years he was released, and found his way to Austria, where he joined Claus. With assistance from Swarovski, the two Riedels were able to reopen the glassware factory by 1957, turning it into today’s Riedel Glass Factory in Kufstein, Austria. Prior to World War II, the factory had produced heavy industrial glass, but upon reopening ...

6. Lead glass - Wikipedia

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   Cut glass wine glass made of lead glass. Lead glass, commonly called crystal, is a variety of glass in which lead replaces the calcium content of a typical potash glass. [1] Lead glass contains typically 18–40% (by mass) lead(II) oxide (PbO), while modern lead crystal, historically also known as flint glass due to the original silica source, contains a minimum of 24% PbO. [2]

7. List of wineries in South Africa - Wikipedia

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   A winery is a building or property that produces wine, or a business involved in the production of wine, such as a wine company. Some wine companies own many wineries. Besides wine making equipment, larger wineries may also feature warehouses, bottling lines, laboratories, and large expanses of tanks known as tank farms.

8. South African wine - Wikipedia

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   South Africa is the eighth largest wine producer in the world and the world's sixth largest exporter of wine. South Africa exports R10.3 billion (roughly US$600 million) worth of wine annually. In 2022 a total of 90,512 hectares of land used for wine grape cultivation by 2,613 wine grape producers for 536 cellars, the industry employed 269,096 ...

9. Wine regions of South Africa - Wikipedia

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   The wine regions of South Africa were defined under the "Wine of Origin" (Wyn van Oorsprong) act of 1973. Mirroring the French Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) system, all South African wines listing a "Wine of Origin" must be composed entirely of grapes from its region. [1] The "Wine of Origins" (WO) program mandates how wine regions of ...