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.
Modified grape harvesters with rotating fingers then knock off the raisins.
The pressed grape juice had no contact with the grape skins, and so is completely clear.
So Griffin -- in his "six glasses of grain alcohol mixed with grape-flavored Juicy Juice" moment -- returned.
Some of you may recognize it as a blending grape used along with Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Malbec in Bordeaux styled wines.
In warmer regions--including those in most of central and southern Italy--the grape is picked early with an eye toward keeping its acidity up, and produces a relatively neutral-flavor grape whose chief claim to our affections is the crispness of its wine.
In warmer regions-including those in most of central and southern Italy-the grape is picked early with an eye toward keeping its acidity up, and produces a relatively neutral-flavored grape whose chief claim to our affections is the crispness of its wine.
Couple this with the grape's prima donna temperature demands-warm though not-too-warm days to ripen up, but with cool nights to keep acidity from respiring out-and you begin to see why making great Pinot Gris takes a special calling.
The number of California acres planted with this grape jumped from 25, 000 in 2005 to 28, 000 the next year.
Producers, wanting to get in on the action, flooded the market with below average imposters (often spiked with other grape varieties to add color and such).
You can find this quality in many Rhone wines, as well as wines from the Languedoc, where wild herbs grow side by side with the grape vines.
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Schoener ferments the juice right along with the grape skins for three weeks, extracting every last flavor out of them--pleasant and harsh alike--then ages the fermented juice in new oak barrels for 10 months.
Couple this with the grape's prima donna temperature demands--warm though not-too-warm days to ripen up, but with cool nights to keep acidity from respiring out--and you begin to see why making great Pinot Gris takes a special calling.
Chablis is the single region on earth most associated with chardonnay grape, where it is has been grown forever and is generally recognized as the best, and the entire legally designated region is just over 10, 000 acres, a pretty small production.
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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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"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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Even mixing it with blueberry and grape juice, as TNI does, leaves it barely drinkable.
But now, here we are in 2011, with land and grape prices sagging even further, and more high tonnages projected to roll in.
Along with that, grape growers must accept that their chosen profession is subject to the same market forces as every other commodity, from grain to natural gas.
It would be enough if Jeannie Cho Lee had just offered a handy guide to pairing Asian food dishes with appropriate wines, thus assisting Westerners grappling with some less familiar flavor combinations at their meals as well as the burgeoning numbers in Asia acquainting themselves with the fermented grape.
When they compared these with the same sites in 50 other grape varieties from the vineyards of California, they discovered that they got a perfect match with only two of them.
There were all kinds of alternatives, starting with Gamay, the grape of Beaujolais.
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The centerpiece of the property is an enormous pool lined with blue iridescent glass-mosaic tiles, with lush sea-grape trees at each corner.
Both are blended and fortified with the addition of grape brandy.
But it's worth giving drinkers a little credit, since the odds of finding a tasty malbec are probably better than they are with any other wine grape, from any other country--at all price points.
"I've never seen anything like it, " says David Honig, a San Francisco attorney who represents a group dealing with unsecured creditors, from grape growers to ups.
The chain's grilled chicken sandwich meal for kids, with steamed broccoli and apple or grape juice, totals only 355 calories, he said.
When other San Francisco bands were stretching out with long, psychedelic jams, Moby Grape was producing catchy three-minute songs that were composed, played and sung by each member.
If barrel-aging is now judged too costly and time-consuming, how long can it be before someone engineers a way to do away with the greater toil and expense of grape-growing altogether?
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