We spend so much time trying to make wine look inaccessible because it is an exclusive club.
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She ultimately elected to make wine instead, but the road to Oregon was anything but straight and narrow.
One would assume that the grapes used to make wine are treated with tender loving care and kid gloves.
He hadn't intended to make wine in Rutherford until the local planning commission forbade his having a 5-meter-high gate on his property.
He hadn't intended to make wine in Rutherford until the local planning commission forbade his having a 16-foot-high gate on his property.
"We want to make wine fun--less intimidating, " says Stephanie Gallo, director of marketing for the privately held company and granddaughter of company cofounder Ernest.
Oregon producers are nothing if not collegial it's something they take as much pride in as they do their ability to make wine under challenging circumstances.
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It is also an exciting place to make wine.
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There are 26, 000 acres planted in Champagne, but almost none of it is used to make red wine.
Its affiliation with the young men and women players is supposed to make its wine seem as playful as a beach sport.
Mr. ADAM LECHMERE (Online Editor, Decanter.com): With the advances in technology, and with vineyard management techniques, it's not difficult to make good wine nowadays.
Next door a laser cutter is zapping an etching into a glass bottle, and across the way someone is carving elegant curved strips of wood to make a wine carrier.
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If I had to make the same wine all the time to the same standard...
Grower Champagnes are a fairly recent phenomenon most growers couldn't afford to make their own wine but thanks to wine snobs who have championed their cause, they're now some of the most sought-after Champagnes in the world.
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But it took so much time to make the final wine selections that Mr. Mailvaganam doesn't plan to change them more than four times a year.
Happily making wine in California at Sine Qua Non winery, Harrison was invited by friends to move to Oregon and make wine.
If he were ever to make his own wine, Mr. Piazza said, it would be from Sicily, though he wasn't sure it would sell in an American market.
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Having been bitten by the wine bug in 2001 after a taste of Thelema Cabernet Sauvignon, Mr. Vanderspuy, who has a deep-rooted history with Stellenbosch, says he recognized that the region's cool, maritime breezes and varied soils had the potential to make great red wine.
After obtaining from Genentech, Inc. the recombinant E. coli bacteria that contained the genetic blueprint for and that synthesized human insulin, they developed processes for the large-scale cultivation of the organism (in huge fermenters similar to those that make wine or beer) and for the purification and formulation of the insulin.
Tech-wine proponents argue that these are simply tools to make the best-tasting wine possible, which sounds fair enough.
You must first get through a communal candlelit dinner of quail and mountainy lamb and white chocolate souffle, washed down by enough wine to make the jugs of the Gods carouse.
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Full disclosure, the wines were not tasted blind, so guests were indeed influenced by the weight of the bottle and the hauteur of the label we all know that heavy bottles and fancy labels tend to make us think the wine is expensive.
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They do a lot of buying and selling on a large, fast-moving bulk market to mix, match and blend to make sure they have a consistent style of wine to offer every year.
Shafer didn't make enough wine to sell to Costco, Mr. Shafer reminded me.
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It took entrepreneurial courage to come to another part of the world, all to show we could make great wine in another region.
Maggie Harrison found the Oregon terroir, specifically the rocks, so compelling she made a split-second decision to move her family north and make wine there.
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The app, which started as a Kickstarter campaign in 2011, is great if you want to make a last minute run to the store for string cheese and wine provisions.
But most California wineries tend to make a pretty rich version of the wine.
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