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.
Grape wine needs to be only 50% grape wine (the rest can be made from other fruits), and Chinese wine needs to be only 50% from Chinese-produced juice.
During the first phase of the trial, the eight jurors heard more than 40 hours of evidence during the course of two weeks, then reached a unanimous verdict in less than three hours that Greenberg committed fraud when he consigned 24 bottles of counterfeit wine to Zachys Wine Auctions for sale in October 2005.
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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.
It also meant that restaurants had to hide their wine bottles and were not allowed to have wine lists on their menus.
Millenials are also more appreciative of the superior eco-friendliness of box wine in comparison to bottled wine.
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But Mr. Kravitz was not allowed to produce a wine from his vineyard alone, as an all-Grenache wine is not permitted by law to be dubbed a Roussillon wine.
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The responses have been incredibly engaging and entertaining ranging from musical performances to yoga poses to wine to an analysis of urban traffic patterns in San Francisco.
The fact of the matter is that demand for wine in bottles (as opposed to wine in bags) is growing faster than the supply of properly prepared cork, so there is actually plenty of room in the market for different types of stopper.
The wine club can in fact be an excellent choice for an individual who wants to experiment with various styles of wine but has little to no time for browsing in their local wine shop.
Even so, Ntezo has to introduce wine to drinkers who may know little or nothing about Bordeaux, Riesling or Pinot Noir.
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Mr Vickers said in England producers were generally happy with alcohol levels of about 10% as they are allowed to add sugar to the wine to get it up to an alcohol level of 12%.
Today, this result is emulated by either heating the wine to between 45 and 50 degrees Celsius after fermentation in stainless steel vats, or placing it in casks that sit on the top floor of wine cellars to bake in the heat for two years.
"In the U.S. a new generation of consumers has come to wine, and they are not educated enough to understand the complex message of European wine, " he explains.
Then we suggested that the restaurateur approach his wine distributers to offer them the opportunity to provide their wine, at cost.
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Part of becoming a certified wine nut is the desire to taste wine more so than drink wine, satisfying an inveterate curiosity.
Mr. Piazza grew up outside Philadelphia, where his father, Vince, an aspiring ball player turned car dealer and wine importer, introduced him to both wine and baseball.
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The epiphany Sharp had led to the creation of The Urban Wine Company, a London-based collective of growers committed to making wine with their own grapes.
There is also a good wine shop next door to replenish your wine cellar.
Another case was against Hardy Rodenstock, a German wine connoisseur who claimed to have discovered a cache of wine in Paris that once belonged to President Thomas Jefferson.
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The complex will feature four restaurants, champagne and wine bars, an enormous wine store run by Majestic Wines, and opportunities to enrol in wine classes or bid in an auction.
He said the rise in popularity of English and Welsh wine could be down to two factors: the wine performing strongly in international competitions and an increase in people wanting to buy local produce.
Nuts are generally good accompaniments to most aperitifs, but woe betide the wine lover who attempts to pair dry roasted peanuts with wine.
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"I think we need not to demystify wine but to remystify it, " he writes.
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According to wine.com, sparkling wine and Champagne sales on their site alone grew roughly 21% over this past year.
In the current climate a winemaker has to travel to wine dinners in order to talk about and promote their wines.
They used a grape press, tasted juice in various stages of fermenting and attended a "riddling" lesson, learning how to turn wine bottles to facilitate yeast removal.
While most wine educators fall all over themselves claiming to demystify wine, Mr. Theise, in his book, takes the opposite stance.
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Most houses give the wine color by adding a portion of still, red Pinot Noir wine to the blend before the Champagne-to-be undergoes its second fermentation in the bottle, the one that produces the trapped bubbles.
Williams is now set to fly to the U.S. to hand-deliver the wine to his secret American gastronome.
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