Greek wine and wine making is as ancient as the marble columns that line the Parthenon.
And its overcoming that perception that makes touring the vineyards and wineries tucked in along the Northern Arizona wine trail a chance to explore a new frontier in wine making and tasting.
While brewers are opting for canned packaging over bottles and wine brands are making the boxed line cool again, some entrepreneurs are finding solutions by creating new product categories.
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Instead of making white wine out of it, Yankees are fermenting pinot meunier on the skins and making red table wine, as they do with merlot, cabernet and syrah.
For Mintz, a 39-year-old accountant and former chief executive of a cooperage (wine-barrel-making business) and Twelftree, 38, with a background in construction and small-scale wine exporting, the change is music to their ears.
They made significant changes in vineyards and wineries, replanting varietals, reducing yields and improving wine-making technology.
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Fifth Season's five stores in the Carolinas and Virginia sell gardening supplies and chicken feed, as well as kits for making sake wine and chevre cheese and cultures for yogurt, kefir, sour cream and buttermilk.
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French cigar traders draw a parallel with what happened to French wine making in the 1970s: despite scandals, defeats in tasting tests and competition from new wines on three continents, French growers complacently rested on their vines, convinced that they had the best soils, the best wine-making weather and the best grapes.
And we are thanking them with our dollars every day for making wine more accessible and universally palatable.
Growing up I only saw the hard work part of growing grapes and making wine.
Growing and making wine here is difficult and expensive, even in a good year.
The French have been in the business of growing grapes and making wine for a long time, and the Chinese are new at it.
But even then, is the food served on those flights, along with the free-flowing wine and champagne offered, making up for the additional cost required?
After shipping their wine for decades to markets in the former Soviet Union, Georgia's winemakers are now struggling to introduce their products and their unique wine-making techniques to the rest of the wine-drinking world.
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It is the flagship winery of the Wagner family, which has been involved in California wine making for five generations and well over a century.
Other hobbies included archeology, writing, wine-making, cooking and industrial design.
Eric Arnold is deputy editor of the lifestyle section for Forbes and is author of the book First Big Crush: The Down and Dirty on Making Great Wine Down Under.
In the rolling hills of Tuscany, the Frescobaldi family has been making wine for 30 generations and some 700 years.
Meerlust, Warwick, Kanonkop, Rustenberg and Vergelegen wine estates are just a handful of producers making world-class red wine based on Cabernet Sauvignon.
They received their vine as a gift six years ago and once tried making a bottle of wine on their own at home, but never even uncorked it.
There are also the moments at the end of a long week (with music turned up and a glass of wine at hand) of happily making flower arrangements for the entire house.
Hong Kong property tycoon Joseph Lau Luen-Hung has a reputation for making extravagant purchases of art, jets, wine and jewelry.
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Keenan and his label Caduceus Cellars brought some star power to Arizona wine making.
Debbie, who is extremely familiar with the art of wine-making, also prepares snack offerings such as ham and cheese croissants, fine cheese plates, fresh baguettes and gourmet chocolates to pair with wines that age two or three years in French oak barrels.
This wine shop and tasting room has panoramic sea views and thoughtful exhibits on barrel-making and cork production.
Of course, producers could switch to making dry white wine or even red, but by an accident of geography and climate, Sauternes is one of the few areas in which conditions are more or less perfect for the production of that distinctive rich, nutty sweetness.
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After what feels like decades of making ill-advised forays into Spartan Chinatown living rooms and pretending to enjoy wine, I have met someone I love and respect, and I want to make decisions that honor and consider him.
It's a cold winter afternoon, and instead of making the tea she had suggested, she decides to open a bottle of red wine.
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