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Art of Wine Tasting: Under no circumstance should you allow someone to influence your perception of what you enjoy.
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White Wine Vocabulary: Details on what to call some of those unusual tastes.
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Wine Tasting: Under no circumstance should you allow someone to influence your perception of what you enjoy, as no one knows this better than yourself.
Wine And Food : What is it that helps you pair wines with food?
Health Benefits of Moderate Wine Consumption: People has been consuming wine for over 10,000 years and using it as a medicine for over 5,000 years.
Grapes Bible: Everything you want to know about grapes.
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With the massive selection of wines and spirits available in stores, the process of choosing the right one may seem overwhelming. We've selected these guides for their well-organized structure and friendly style.
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Argentina Argentina is currently the world's fifth largest producer of wine.
Australia The 1999 vintage proved challenging due to the vagaries of weather but the Australian wine industry weathered the storm with good vineyard management and well-timed harvests and surpassed the one million tonne mark for the first time.
Austria Austria produces an average of 2.5m hectolitres of wine a year, placing it 17th in the world production league table. ( Vienna is the only capital in the world that has commercial vineyards within its city limits).
Bulgaria
Bulgarians have been making wine for about 3000 years, since Thracian times. It is on a geographical line with the South of France and Central and Southern Italy and is, therefore, blessed with a climate of high sunshine and low humidity in summer and very cold winters over which period the vines are preserved.
Canada The majority of Canadian Wines are grown in vineyards on the East side of Canada in Ontario (ON) and on the West Coast in British Colombia (BC)
Chile Chile, for more than a century has had a quality wine industry, no doubt the best in South America, with the French as their teachers.
England Much of the history of English Wine is obscure but one thing is certain - England has been producing wine for a very long time.
France France the most famous Wine producing country in the World. (the heart of every wine lover's world.)
Germany A tradition based in Germany, ice wines are very sweet, golden in color, and are created by leaving grapes on the vine until the temperature hits between -10 and -13 Celsius.
Greece
Wine has been made in Greece since very ancient times, and a tradition of fine wine stretches from Homer to the fall of Byzantium
Hungary Hungary is a small country at the very heart of Europe and with a strong national character, an intrinsic individuality which is well reflected in her wines
Israel Vine growing and wine production in the land of Israel have a long recorded history. Remnants of ancient wine cisterns and utensils can be found scattered throughout the country
Italy Survey of the wines of Italy's 20 regions follows a geographical pattern which divides the country into four sections: The South and Islands; Central regions; Northcentral and Northwest regions; Northeast regions. Similarities often exist within these sections in terms of climate and geography, as well as in grape varieties
New_Zealand As a cool climate area, with gentle summer rains, New Zealand's natural propensity is for light, elegant wines, with intensity of fruit and varietal character.
Portugal Portugal has a wealth of different grape varieties many of which are unique. Where else in the world can you find red wines packed with the wild berry fruit character of grapes like Touriga Nacional, Baga or Periquita!
Romania Romania is an ancient wine making land. Its name refers to Rome, that considered it the jewel in its vast Empire due to the bounty of its farms and vineyards.
South Africa The arrival of Jan van Riebeeck at the Cape in 1652 heralded the beginning of wine- growing in South Africa.
Spain Spain is a world class producer of wines, both in quality and quantity. Better known are the quality reds from Rioja and Ribera del Duero, reds and whites from Penedés, fine whites from Rueda, "sherries" from Jerez, and a fine sparkling wine known as cava.
U.S.A. The major wine producing regions in the United States are California, which dominates, with 96% of the total output; New York state; and the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon and Idaho). Wines from all these areas have earned international recognition. |