The result is the books seem to put beer on trial much less than wine, at least high priced wine.
Other vineyards along Highway 128 maintain their own homey atmosphere while producing character-rich, high-quality wine.
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Yet you'd be hard-pressed to believe that the high-scoring wine critic owns a stash of B's.
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"In five years people will be panicked with the lack of high-end wine, " says Richard Wollack, co-CEO of PPV (which is involved with Forbes Inc. in wine ventures).
By growing chardonnay grapes as far south as unglamorous Santa Maria and dotting the state with winepresses to keep production close to the source, Jackson secured his ability to produce more than 3 million cases a year of high-quality wine.
Several dozen of them make superb wine, but even in exciting, small-crop vintages like 2003 Bordeaux as a whole may simply be producing too much wine, at too high a price, for a world with so many other wine options.
Viscosity is all about texture, or mouthfeel in wine, high viscosity adds weight to the experience.
Thus, paying high prices for fine wine can be justified by new consumers as in their minds it is something that gives pleasure and does them good.
She found if she told her students that, for example, a wine had high alcohol content, high acidity and good body, the students had a hard time remembering that.
Death had robbed him of his enviable coup and set up his daughter with one of the most remarkable inheritances the world of high-end French wine had ever seen.
Andreas Dunkel of the Technical University of Munich deconstructed the molecules present in a high-value Italian wine, finding some 82 taste-active compounds that were responsible for the wine's distinctive taste.
With its science-supports-desire research, the industry is hoping to follow in the footsteps of the wine and high-end chocolate markets, which have successfully convinced consumers that some pleasurable experiences can be good for you.
Of course, the best way to enjoy pizza is at a little local pizzeria overlooking the Bay of Naples, washed down with whatever the restaurant serves, in all likelihood a local Aglianico, a dark-red wine with high acidity and high tannins.
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This all means the production costs of making sweet wine are very high.
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The typical markup on a bottle of wine can be as high as 200%.
Wine imports have a high rate of growth, expanding by 50 percent annually.
One thing Jeannie Cho Lee cannot help with is the ridiculously high taxation on still and sparkling wine in many of the Asian locales she visits.
Rows of pink yoga mats were strewn on the runway, each accompanied by a pair of high-top sneakers, towels and wine bottles.
Have wines actually gotten that much better, or has grade inflation become as common among wine critics as it has among high-school personnel?
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Wines that are high in extract (the components of the wine that aren't acids, water or alcohol) also tend to age more sturdily.
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"Wine is interesting to me because it is related to all aspects of culture, agriculture and high culture, " he says, arguing that far from slavishly following an omnipotent wine writer or critic for advice, it is the ambiguity of wine and the search for knowledge that makes it so pleasurable.
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The wine had been approved by the Jerusalem High Council, he announced.
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While she expects that impressionist, modern and contemporary art will continue to fetch high prices, Corroon reports that the demand for wine, watches, decorative art, prints and photography is also zealous.
The 7-bedroom, 13-bathroom home is finished with high-end amenities such as a theater, wine cellar with tasting room, an elevator, 14 fireplaces, a spacious spa with gym and a large swimming pool.
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While winemaking in Napa became increasingly reliant on high technology, Mr. Draper was essentially making wine the same way it had been made for centuries, with minimal additions of sulfur as a preservative and not much else.
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It's that demand for a high return that is keeping the fund from investing in wine retailing and distribution in Asia, despite the fact that wine consumption has risen from 0.1 liter per person annually in 1987 to as much as 3 liters today.
We wondered, honestly, who they think their market is and we finally realized that many high-end American Chardonnays have become the Cadillac of the wine world.
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If you don't know what a wine is, you're unlikely to pay a high price for it.
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Or the needed dose may be high enough that it would require pills, not just the occasional glass of wine.
The rest of the house has high-end features like Italian marble, mahogany cabinetry, onyx slab flooring, wine and piano room, two pools, billiard room and solar power-generating system.
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