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The Most Important Wine Consideration

UncategorizedFebruary 21, 201430Views 0Likes 0Comments

Storage is an important consideration for wine that is being kept for long-term aging. While most wine is consumed within 24 hours of purchase, fine wines are often set aside for long-term storage. Wine is one of the few commodities that can improve with age but it can also rapidly deteriorate if kept in inadequate…

Mutants and Clones of Pinot Noir

UncategorizedFebruary 19, 201458Views 0Likes 0Comments

Pinot noir is almost certainly a very ancient variety that may be only one or two generations removed from wild, Vitis sylvestris, vines. Its origins are nevertheless unclear: In De re rustica, Columella describes a grape variety similar to pinot noir in Burgundy during the 1st century CE, however, vines have grown wild as far…

What Is Fortified Wine Actually?

UncategorizedFebruary 18, 201450Views 0Likes 0Comments

Fortified wine is a wine to which a distilled spirit, usually brandy, is added. Many different styles of fortified wine have been developed, including Port, Sherry, Madeira, Marsala, Commandaria wine and the aromatized wine Vermouth. The original reason for fortifying wine was to preserve it, since ethanol is a natural antiseptic. Even though other preservation…

Exploring Effects On Wine

UncategorizedFebruary 17, 201440Views 0Likes 0Comments

Lorem text Lorem text Lorem text As red wine ages, the harsh tannins of its youth gradually give way to a softer mouthfeel. An inky dark color will eventually fade to a light brick red. These changes occur due to the complex chemical reactions of the phenolic compounds of the wine. In processes that begin during fermentation and…

Aging of Wine Does Matter

UncategorizedFebruary 16, 201431Views 0Likes 0Comments

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Alternative Wine Closure

UncategorizedFebruary 13, 201443Views 0Likes 0Comments

Alternative wine closures are substitute closures used in the wine industry for sealing wine bottles in place of traditional cork closures. The emergence of these alternatives has grown in response to quality control efforts by winemakers to protect against "cork taint" caused by the presence of the chemical trichloroanisole (TCA). The closures debate, chiefly between…

Non-Grape Based Wine

UncategorizedFebruary 10, 201475Views 0Likes 0Comments

Fruit wines are fermented alcoholic beverages made from a variety of base ingredients (other than grapes); they may also have additional flavors taken from fruits, flowers, and herbs. This definition is sometimes broadened to include any fermented alcoholic beverage except beer. For historical reasons, mead, cider, and perry are also excluded from the definition of…

How We Got to Know About Wine

UncategorizedFebruary 4, 201430Views 0Likes 0Comments

Lorem text Lorem text Lorem text Archaeological evidence has established the earliest-known production of wine from fermenting grapes during the late Neolithic or early Chalcolithic in the Caucasus and the northern edge of the Middle East. An extensive gene-mapping project in 2006 analyzed the heritage of more than 110 modern grape cultivars, narrowing their origin to a region…

Grape Varieties

UncategorizedFebruary 1, 201446Views 0Likes 0Comments

Lorem text Lorem text Lorem text Wine is usually made from one or more varieties of the European species Vitis vinifera, such as Pinot noir, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Gamay and Merlot. When one of these varieties is used as the predominant grape (usually defined by law as minimums of 75% to 85%), the result is a "varietal" as…

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