One of the wine lover's greatest pleasures--that there are tens of thousands of individual versions of "wine" available, with 7, 000 years of complex history and tradition behind them--is also a wine lover's biggest headache.
It's clearly labeled California, so there's no confusion as to the wine's origins.
Rolland's influence is denounced as pernicious by self-styled champions of wine's eccentricity, who think Rolland and Parker are engaged in what amounts to a campaign to homogenize flavor.
Charles Hines, a Portland management consultant, says he was taken by the wine's easy-drinking quality.
The differences you actually taste are due more to the wine's overall house style than to its coloring method.
It was just prohibition ended in the 1930s, the Gallos worked to change wine's image as an elitist drink.
Each explores eight wines, including the specific soil, climatic effects on grapes, and nuances of the wine's flavor profile.
Scores are awarded for the correct identification of the wine's predominant grape variety, country of origin, viticultural region, subdistrict and vintage.
He also advocates other technologies still controversial: adding enzymes (to enhance wine's color) or adding microbubbles of oxygen (to speed its aging).
Wine's military background and international experience will be helpful for Polaris' growth.
But other cellar treatments have less predictably happy results--fining and filtering, for example, which can strip away a wine's flavor at the last minute.
Pure Food and Wine 's menu of raw vegetable concoctions may make this the Big Apple's most unusual restaurant--as well as one of its best.
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Mr. Hinde insists Yao Family Wines isn't a short-lived bid to capitalize on China's wine boom and the star's celebrity before either of them wane.
Consumers seemed to agree, with word-of-mouth fueling the wine's quick growth.
Here are two Pinots from producers devoted to a richer, New World style, but who have incorporated a sense of the wine's fine harmony and balance.
Some wineries more or less successfully give Pinot Gris oak treatment, but it works best as a light touch, an accent that doesn't bury the wine's fruit character.
The wine's bouquet of jammy fruits, light florals and just a hint of chile pepper match the piquant chiles, garlic and luscious steak in this hearty, family-friendly dish.
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.
Burgundians believe a wine's character is derived principally from the plot of land the vine is planted on, which is graded by a classification system based on the vineyard, village and subdistrict.
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At the same time, the wine's earthiness gives it a lustiness that also would go well with thick veal chops smothered in a sauce of tomatoes, basil, black olives and lemon zest.
Mr Franzia's firm, the Bronco Wine Company, brings California's excess grapes to its plant in Napa Valley from all over the state. (The firm's use of the Napa name on its labels is, as a result, currently the subject of a lawsuit.) Bronco owns an efficient modern plant and has its own distribution network, so it can deliver wine directly to Trader Joe's warehouses, which keeps costs down.
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Anthony Roberts, general manager of Lion Nathan's wine group, flatly denies that a wine division sale is on his company's agenda.
It's a bright, clean, lively wine that's a perennial good deal.
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Even if, as Day argues, the price is low for the company that owns the supermarket-mainstay Hardys and Banrock Station wineries, the merger suggests IWIF's vision is playing out: The wine industry's globalization is inevitable.
One of the refreshing things about the Australian approach to wine has been the willingness of the country's wine makers to puncture some of the snobberies and myths that surround the world of wine in Europe, and increasingly California.
George likes a nice glass of wine when he's cooking, red wine from a green bottle.
But top wine producers say it will take more than one year of reduced output to drain Australia's wine lake.
Just as Jackson has his beefs with jug wine, which has failed to give U.S. wine a good name, so he quarrels with the conceits of the boutique vintners who shrink from scale.
Kentucky-based Buffalo Trace Distillery and master distiller Harlen Wheatley have won countless accolades in the last few years, including Malt Advocate Magazine's 2005 Distillery of the Year, Wine Enthusiast Magazine's 2006 Distiller of the Year and Whisky Magazine's Distiller of the Year--twice in 2005 and 2007.
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