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Camellia Cellars

One sunny day in 1979, when Del and Ray Lewand were on a wine tasting tour of the Alexander Valley they decided to stay overnight at a local inn. That stay triggered an idea. Both were Los Angeles natives, but with their children pretty well grown they were beginning to think of a move away from southern California. “We hadn’t settled on a way to support ourselves,” says Ray, “but after the night at the inn we looked at each other and said, ‘Hey, this is something we could do.”
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New wine or old !!!

They say that wine is a good collection - a gift from himself as a young, but older. The only question is whether I want to have such a gift? For example, the bottle Chateau Leoville Las Casas must lie for 30-40 years before her decent gin will be released. This means I will … ah … for 70! Dovlatov it was not yet forty when he had written:
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Winery Lopez de Heredia, architect Zaha Hadid

… Which tank decanters you prefer? What about this, which put yourself, plus accompanying persons in the amount of, say, twenty people? ..

Architecture and wine Spain - continue to explore the route of “Bilbao-Rioja. Here, about 100 km south of Bilbao, is a hive of new, radically reconstructed wineries. Prior to you get into LaGuardia, where Santiago Calatrava has built a fantastic sinusoid Bodega Isios, or Else, where Frank Gehry built a most unusual hotel in the world of wine Marquis de Riskal, you will see the strange building in Haro - the town at the entrance to the Rioja winemaking . Our aim - the building of one of the world leaders of avant-garde Zahi Hadid in Lopez de Heredia economy.
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A good wine for the holidays

There is a winemaker in the Russian River valley who is marking her ninth Pinot Noir vintage this year, and she seems to have charmed this recalcitrant grape into allowing her to produce wines that sell out as soon as the waiting world hears another is on the way. Eugenia Keegan, owner and winemaker of Keegan Cellars is the person whose name is on the label of these Pinot Noirs, and that’s all that many people need to know before heading to their favorite wine shop.
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The dish

Call me old fashioned.

There is something about the tradition and ritual of wine that I find oddly comforting.

I almost never come across a robust dry sherry by the glass in a restaurant ­ unless, of course, it’s a Spanish restaurant ­ but when I do I can hardly resist. This is a superb aperitif, but one that is hardly appreciated any more in this chardonnay-laden world.

The Domecq dry Manzanilla sherry recently crossed my desk, which reminded me of my passion for the dry sherries. Both the Domecq Manzanilla and “La Ina” (a dry fino) retail for about $15 a bottle. Try them with roasted almonds or Sevilla olives.
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Winery Ysios

Fantastic architecture Bodega Ysios enters the constellation of the most attractive sites of wine tourism to Spain. Winery Marques-de-Riscal Frank Gehry designed by the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Bodega López de Heredia worked Zaha Hadid, the grand lady of the world of architectural deconstruction, and Bodega Ysios made the most futuristic and surreal architect in the world, Spaniard Santiago Calatrava.
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Theoretical Foundations of technology muscat wine

Theoretical Foundations of technology muscat wines.
The main problem that solves the technology of Muscat, is to maximize the aromatics of grape extract and save them at all stages of manufacture and storage of wine. The transition to the wort and wine extractive s should be restricted to ensure lightness and delicacy taste of muscat wine.
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How wine affects IQ: an interview with microbiologist Paul Rainey

Contact Paul was a little bit easier than to make contact with aliens. The geography of his movements in connection with lectures on the evolutionary genetics covering America and Europe, plus Paul spends much time in his cabin on the island (5 hours by boat from Auckland, New Zealand) away from electricity, roads, and e-mail. “This is a wild place, - he says - there’s nothing there, so they can think.” Why do we approached Paul with a request for an interview? First, we sunk into the soul of the fact that Paul was a wine steward St Cross College, Oxford, which we mentioned in the article on the relationship of wine and higher education. It was interesting to learn first hand what it means to manage the cellar of the educational institution. Secondly, it is curious to find out whether Paul suffered “Oxford tradition in its own internationalist laboratory. How to combine wine and science?

Rainey - a wine steward at Oxford

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Muscat review

Muscat - sweet wine made from specific varieties of muscat grapes and have a unique and unsurpassed, vivid and unique, memorable open flavor with nuances of tea or Kazanluk roses, rose oil, clove, with hints of acacia and citron shades, sometimes with a slight honey and almond shades.
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Sparkling Muscat

Muscat wines differ bright original, nor incomparable flavor. Muscat Sparkling - the original type of wine, the characteristics of which - and the foaming properties of sparkling, refreshing effect of carbon dioxide, a pleasant sweetness and mild muscat flavor, which is dominated by shades of colors linden, acacia, rose, orange - giving it exclusive nor incomparable superior organic dignity.
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