Alcoholic Beverage Industry
Wine
Wine has been made by humans for over eight thousand years. First made from wild grapes, today wine is produced from grapevines grown in cultivated vineyards. Vineyard...
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Naked, Naked, Naked A new trend gaining popularity in chardonnay wine production is the absence of oak: Naked Chard. To be sure this is a trend that is gaining momentum with wine producers througho...
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Writing about wine is an art form almost as interesting as making it -- and it's a lot less messy. Poets love wine, but alas, often what we get is mundanity. A ...
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Wines of Change or Leaving Your Wine Comfort Zone The promise of spring and early summer ushers in change on all fronts; the rebirth of trees and flowers is the catalyst to break us ou...
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You Even Design the Label If you thought making wine in your kitchen was exciting (see Is it Wine Yet?) how about becoming a real winemaker without the fuss of actually having a vineyard. The...
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Pairing wine with food is a mystical process, and I use the word "process" because there are no fixed rules. It's possible to argue that a wide variety of wines would work just fine with most dishe...
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1. Andalucia Flamenco and tapas are best when accompanied by a savory glass of Andalucía’s own famous sherry. With Spain touting more vineyard acreage than anywhere in the world, this so...
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Vienna (dpa) - As the country is locked in an intensive discussion
over teenage binge drinking, Austria's wine industry came under fire
after a controversial radio ad.
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Air is both the blessing and the curse to wine.Too much air and the wine oxidizes. Too little and a young wine remains backward and doesn't deliver the character that the wine maker intended.For th...
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The effects are all too familiar: a fancy dinner, some fine wine and then, a few hours later, a racing heart and a pounding headache. But a device developed by University of California, Berkeley, r...
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The gift of wine or a useful wine accessory is a great idea, but by no means a new one. Historians now think people started cultivating grapes to make wine during the Neolithic period (9000 –...
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