With or without vines, Shapiro, a former penny stock trader, lived like a grape magnate.
Then he pushed open the gate and strode toward the front porch, which was shaded by a grape arbor.
Certainly not least among Grenache's PR problems is just that it isn't a grape from Bordeaux or (except surreptitiously) Burgundy.
In fact, Apremont shows up so often on labels that non-Savoie-savvy drinkers might be excused for thinking it, too, was a grape.
Since Chateau O'Brien opened in 2006, the O'Briens a re fast becoming known for their Tannat, a grape traditionally grown in Southern France and Uruguay.
Have German winemakers finally found a grape that can sell itself?
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Of the two Binyamina wines, we actually preferred the mevushal bottling of the 2009 Reserve Syrah, a grape that seems to do particularly well in Israel.
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It was unlike any wine I'd ever tasted, and from a grape I'd never encountered before the Fer Servadou thought to be a cross between Gamay and Cabernet.
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They used a grape press, tasted juice in various stages of fermenting and attended a "riddling" lesson, learning how to turn wine bottles to facilitate yeast removal.
There were three large issues, the proper treatment of expenses relative to a loan that Ms. Heinbockel made to her brother, a grape farm and a one-plane transportation service.
One of its properties, Calistoga Ranch, leverages not just the local waters but its Napa Valley location with its Vineyard Crush treatment, starring a grape-seed massage and tea bath.
We actually had impact censors on board, and the spacecraft was being hit by rocks up to almost half a centimeter, almost the size of--between a raisin and a grape in size.
The group prescribed several "finesse" cuts like slicing a grape in half or dicing a cardboard paper towel roll into as many slivers as possible, the way a chef slices an onion.
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The handlers either gave both monkeys an identical reward (a slice of cucumber) or gave just one of the monkeys the much preferred reward of a grape for completing exactly the same task.
Forty-two tons of soil were carried up three flights of stairs to create Bartlett's 2, 500-square-foot "country in the city, " planted with a lawn, an evergreen maze, a grape arbor, an apple orchard and a rose garden.
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At the White Barn Inn Restaurant in Kennebunkport, the only AAA Five Diamond restaurant north of New York City, chef Jonathan Cartwright has a House Smoked Salmon and Marinated Maine Shrimp with a Grape, Pear and Walnut Salad featuring Concord grapes on his holiday menu.
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There are other grapes grown in Savoie, too, most notably Gringet (a high-acid white said to be related to a grape from Jura, in eastern France) and Mondeuse blanche and noire (the latter is a bit like Syrah), as well as a few others that are yet more obscure.
There are exceptions, of course, and two of my favorites are both produced in New York: the Channing Daughters Tocai Friulano, a crisp dry white made from a Friulian grape, and a minerally white Rkatsiteli, a Russian grape grown by Dr. Konstantin Frank Vinifera Wine Cellars in the Finger Lakes district.
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"My conflict with this grape is that it has been written and spoken about for way too long as a grape that helps to define the South African category, almost to the point of rendering the category a proverbial 'one-trick pony, ' " he wrote in an email, comparing it to Mendoza Malbec from Argentina and Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand.
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This means that a great deal of the bad wine that tourists report being served is not really grape wine and may be a blend of a little Chinese grape wine and a lot of imported bulk wine of undetermined origin.
The menu includes a "grape elixir" facial with grape extracts and grape seed oil to refresh the skin, as well as a "salt glow" body peel, which uses a glass of sparkling wine for exfoliation.
It's a red grape that, most of the world over, is pressed to extract clear juice, then fermented into a small component of sparkling wines, such as champagne.
Croatia argues that Teran, or Terrano in Italian, is a generic grape variety and cannot be protected.
But the Zweigelt, a red grape from Austria, captured the full Pinot spectrum.
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Some of you may recognize it as a blending grape used along with Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Malbec in Bordeaux styled wines.
These included the same three grapes that Mr. Goldstein mentioned but a few others as well, namely Cabernet Franc, from the Loire, and Frappato, a red grape native to Sicily.
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We described how relaxation of depreciation rules in the early 1990s led growers to plant excess acreage in Australian vineyards, producing a 40% hike in production and a massive grape glut.
All 24 sites could be accounted for if the first Cabernet Sauvignon vine was a hybrid between Cabernet Franc (another red variety from Bordeaux) and Sauvignon Blanc (a white grape grown widely in western France).
Grant says this year's vintage, which saw a fall in grape tonnage harvested of about a third, might act as "circuit breaker" to help ease pressure on an oversupplied market.
The expansion comes at a time of softening grape prices and a market worried about consumer demand.
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