Archive for the ‘wine history’ Category
Monday, November 28th, 2011
Concha y Toro is topping the ratings charts and may soon be the number one-selling import wine in the United States.
Even for a business like wine, with products that are supposed to improve with age, it’s hard not to marvel at what a difference 10 years have meant to Concha y Toro’s fortunes. A decade ago, Americans still considered the Chilean winery synonymous with economy-size magnums of simple Cabernet served at off-Broadway cast parties and East Village gallery openings. The image was about the same in Chile, where Concha y Toro ran all its business from its headquarters in a seedy, working-class district of Santiago–just the neighborhood for the nation’s viño popular.
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Muller-Thurgau, Hermann Müller, Dr. Dr. hc, Professor, Director (1891-1924). * 21.10.1850 in Tagerwilen (Switzerland), † 18.01.1927 in Wädenswil (Switzerland). Married. Bending in 1881 with Bertha Oestrich / Rheingau, 3 daughters.
The plant physiologist Müller called himself Müller-Thurgau. His birthplace is located in the canton of Thurgau Tagerwilen. His father ran a bakery and was widely “Büürlibeck” to be known. Are small bread roll bread rolls.
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Monday, June 13th, 2011
Long associated with winemaking mass, increased production and declines in quality wines of the region, Carignan was not only friends in Languedoc-Roussillon. Today its share has decreased significantly but the wines are often very good. The winemakers have figured out how to cultivate better and better for the vinification of this grape gives wines. So, Carignan is an enemy or it an asset to the wines of Languedoc-Roussillon? That is the question I posed at the time of writing these few lines dedicated to him. Opinions differ when talking about this vine imported from Spain on a massive scale then pulled today.
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Tags: ampelography, carbonic maceration, Carignan, grapes, Languedoc Roussillon, Pierre Galet, Spain, tannic
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Monday, June 13th, 2011
I mentioned the “brothers of the Languedoc” in the article on Olivier Pithon area : Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre and Carignan, an assembly that is not uncommon to find in our bottles in Languedoc-Roussillon, sometimes embellished a touch of Cinsault to top it off.
It is time to look this month with Syrah, this beautiful vine on which one could write again and again as it is complex, and fascinating present on almost all continents of the globe.
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Tags: History, Syrah, vine, wine, winery
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Monday, June 13th, 2011
Midi-Sauvignon Vin looks at the world-produced and very present in Languedoc-Roussillon region of adoption of this grape varietal aromas with very pronounced.
The first traces of its culture back to the 18th century. The Loire and the South-West are home. Today, its culture was exported beyond our borders. Australia, the United States (mainly California), but particularly New Zealand produces great wines made from Sauvignon in many areas.
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Tags: aromas, History, research, Sauvignon, scientific
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Saturday, May 28th, 2011
That in the distant continent of unique species like the platypus and the kangaroo is home to know Europe Educated classes. That there high quality wines, not just mass production but thrive in this country almost a secret. Astonished, the European wine world had in the eighties to take note of that as an Australian Red (Grange) could make it, the assembled elite of Bordeaux wine-tasting area in comparison to beat on their own terrain.
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Saturday, May 28th, 2011
The approximately 20,000 hectares of vineyards are located primarily in the southwest of the front Country. Some are looking at around 1,500 m and are thus among the highest vineyards in Europe. In 2000 it was half a million hectoliters of wine (mainly fortified wines) are produced.
There are very few varieties that are unaltered, however, as the island was spared the phylloxera from. A large part will be produced as table grapes and raisins. Dominant in the 15 indigenous species like the red Mavro (in German: dark, the most planted red grape variety of Cyprus), Maratheftiko and ophthalmic and the white Xynisteri and Malaga (Muscat of Alexandria). Mavro and Xynisteri are the most common indigenous grape varieties.
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Saturday, May 28th, 2011
Cyprus is probably the oldest wine-producing region in Europe. Even the Phoenicians and Greeks founded the tradition of sweet and dessert wines. Excavations of the Italian archaeologist Dr. Maria Belgiorno show that the Cyprus wine over 5000 years back on. Legend has it that the first mortal king Ikarios, of Dionysus, the god of wine, the art of wine making has been taught.
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Monday, April 25th, 2011
Simposy – means “to drink together.” In classical Greece simposy – is ritualized feast of fun under the patronage of the god Dionysus. Men’s forum, where table-talk was accompanied by wine and entertainment – games, dances, songs. Butler carried the wine and simposiarh directed the conversation, which could constitute a self solving of puzzles, reading poetry or political debate could revolve around sporting events, theatrical productions, or some kind of philosophical problem, if simposii attended by scholars. So, in the famous Feast Plato described the prototype of all modern scientific and philosophical debate – simposy on Eros, which was attended by Agatha, Aristophanes, Socrates, Phaedrus, Pausanias. Hugh Johnson, “History of Wine” , Wikipedia “Simposy ”
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Sunday, April 24th, 2011
The wine culture is imprinted in every sector of our civilization and for the sacred aspects related to the origins of agriculture, and to those of intoxication. This mysterious liquid, support efforts, to aid divination and healing for all evil, although in punitive and ungrateful in the excess, it has attracted many people with respect and consideration.
Legend attributes the “invention” of the wine to Noah, who was also the protagonist of the first intoxication. While we can not fully support this view, the fact remains that it still produces more wine in the vicinity of Mount Ararat. From these areas, the vine would take over northern Thrace, on its way, by the Phoenicians, from Syria to Greece, Italy, in Gaul and central Europe by Roman soldiers, who were the furthest reaches of the their immense empire.
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Concha y Toro is topping the ratings charts and may soon be the number one-selling import wine in the United States.
