“Animal and leathery” flavors can on the one hand be part of grape varieties or assemblage-specific aroma complex, for example, contains the bouquet of ripe Syrah animal sounds (down to notes, which remind us of wildlife or offals, etc.), Sangiovese often resembles more or less intensively on horseback, and blends of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, and possibly other varieties, depending on the terroir, animal odor components also have. On the other hand, those flavors are formed or enhanced by barrel aging (if not the toasty aromas of new wood to be very much dominated) and longer bottle aging.
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The Europeans are only 12 percent of the world’s population, but half of the global alcohol consumption is responsible for. Accordingly, the large economic losses.

Excessive alcohol consumption leads to other things from liver cirrhosis, cancer and high blood pressure.

Alcohol during pregnancy is one of the most common causes of mental retardation in newborns.

Alcoholism, broken families and leads to disability. In addition, the consumption of alcohol for many thousands of deaths a year in charge.
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Cutting out of the vineyard

Does the performance of the vines to areas to be “carved” the old vines and planted again. The old vineyard, the vine roots, all wooden peg and cleared together with wires.

Soil Preparation

To regenerate the long-standing land under monoculture soils need to prepare the soil for the seedlings of tillage special measures are undertaken. A two-to three-year fallow is recommended – often for cost reasons but not realized. This will help break the surface of virus-infected roots and Nemathoden free.
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Since the 1860s, on the fifth continent new cultivation methods and Processing techniques applied. Australia went into the first class of the wine-producing countries. Headstrong is from a Central European perspective, that the vineyards in flat position and not on slopes and grown almost all the new vineyards are irrigated in the valley. (Left: The wine area around Mudgee NSW)

As the “father of Australian viticulture” is the Scotsman James Busby (1802-1871). He had knowledge of wine purchased in France and then emigrated to Australia from. In 1825 he founded north of Sydney in the Hunter River Valley, he brought his own Farm.
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Poor, dry, well drained.
These three conditions allow the roots of the vines are fully unfold. Fertile land for possible large-scale production of grapes, but product quality is not good. Contrary to what most people believe, the most famous vineyards are planted in areas of gravel and stones, where other crops would be impractical.
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Much is currently the beneficial properties of wine on health and a lot of truth in it. References to this issue started in 1991 with Dr. Renaud name which exposed an American news network for one hour (CBS) a study in which checks and France and other Mediterranean countries registered a 40% lower incidence of heart attacks in U.S., SINDO a culture of high consumption of animal fat and carbohydrates (meats, cheeses, breads, pastries, etc.).. topic is called “French paradox.”
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Two atoms of hydrogen and one oxygen: chemical formula for simple and ordinary-looking be a natural element from the countless physical representations. The water we perceive by touch, eyes and even with the hearing in the form of fog, clouds, rain, snow, ice, the sea, a river, a lake, a waterfall so the water with us from the womb for life on this planet.

We live on earth, a particle lost in the immensity of space, whose surface is covered for 71% water and from space, it seems a huge ball blue crystal clear as the body of our eyes, the water takes on the colors of nature and heaven!

Apparently its odorless and tasteless, it can make us feel all the tastes and smells imaginable. Does not have its own form, except at temperatures below 0 ° C, water is characterized by the continuous flow, transformations, and its cycle between earth and sky. And that just slide over the millennia, the water forms and transforms the landscape by digging valleys, carving rocks, creating and destroying beaches and sandbars, constantly moving in search of finding their primordial and sphericity of the drop of the heavenly bodies.
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It is not always the wine into blood is a problem. It can also describe visions and allegories of universal significance. Teaches us even a great Nobel Prize.

This article is just a reflection, surely staff, which leads me, however, very far, even threatening to make me fly too high and seem exaggerated and visionary. However, sometimes, certain beliefs and evaluations, at first sight absurd, just come to light during the most critical.

I spent a very bad day because of a poor prognosis, fortunately ridimensionatasi significantly within one week, touching the person next to me is more than forty years. But it is not sure what I want to talk to you. My personal tragedy is to talk about friendship and more.
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Marangoni … who was he? I could tell you simply that it was an Italian physicist who in 1865 graduated from the University of Pavia with a thesis in explaining a particular feature of the liquid, which since that time has taken its own name: Marangoni effect.

In summary it says: “The presence of a difference in surface tension causes a liquid to flow away from regions where it is lower.” Try dropping a drop of a liquid with low surface tension in a container filled with water. You’ll see that immediately, the surface water withdraws, almost running away from the presence of “alien”. One might have very little interest, if I remember that this peculiarity was discovered about ten years before studying the city’s “legs” of wine. Marangoni scientifically explains why.
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We highlight a number of issues on which the European winemaking to produce fine wine that would be roughly this:

AROMA: it can be Fruity, Balsamic, Foulweald, Spicy, Floral, Plant, Animal …
FLAVORS: Velvety (Soft and lightweight), Warm (with high alcohol content), Rough (rugged and strong), with body (consistent), Flexible (well balanced, low acidity), dessert (sweet and syrupy), structure (rich in tannins), Balanced (harmonic), Generous (high alcohol), Vivo (very acid), dry (no trace of sugar), Nervous (without being aggressive acid), Slight (low in alcohol and no body), Robust (structured rich in alcohol), Redondo (smooth and velvety), Mellow (velvety with residual sugar), sweet (flexible and light) …
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