Noon-Wine Selection Wine Summer fun sunny!

wine_on_the_beach_400Summer has settled with a little late this year. Many fruits and vegetables from early summer seemed a little “diluted” … However, the heat wave arrived, lending a helping hand to maturation. Summer is here! He often combines vacation, light meals, gourmet, fine, subtle … and to accompany the meal, the wine was seduced!
For you, Midi-Vin has selected a series of summer wine that you can safely link to your summer fun … A little levity for the holidays and summer meals, we only ask that!
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August 29th, 2010 | Leave a Comment

The malolactic fermentation: what is it and what for?

malolactic-fermentationYou all know the principle of fermentation. To summarize, it is a phenomenon in which yeasts convert sugar into alcohol. This transformation is known since ancient times and is the most important process in wine making. Today this phenomenon known uses as diverse as baking, brewing, wine making or manufacture of biofuel.

But in the wine another fermentation takes place sometimes. This is much less known, because the more discreet (which has notably led to an understanding of the phenomenon later). This is the malolactic fermentation.
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August 21st, 2010 | Leave a Comment

The book as a gift millionaire: Living with Wine

Gathered to break into his cottage in Redin home library on 1000 volumes? Do not hurry. Home Library - Now mauvais ton, and Bonton - it zakolbasit a media room, home gym or a cozy cave as inscribed in the interior of high-tech cellar. At the 1000 bottles. The journalist from Connecticut, Samantha Nestor (Samantha Nestor) recently released a book on design, 30 private wine cellars outstanding wine collectors the United States. From the tiny cellars yutyaschihsya under the stairs on the second floor, from the collections protected as Chase Manhattan Bank.

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August 10th, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Visit Domaine Diebolt-Vallois

diebolt-03BEAUTIFUL REGION

  • A few miles south of Epernay, Cramant is the first village of the quartet prestigious Côte des Blancs: Cramant - Avize - Oger - Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. It is certainly one of the finest terroirs of Champagne, with its chalky slopes facing east, often topped by a small forest, which plays a thermoregulatory role. Here is the realm of vintage Champagne Blanc de Blancs, Chardonnay which shows one of its finest expressions.
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    July 23rd, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Vini Circus: The Return (red)

Unpretentious but a beautiful mouth, pure, crystalline fruit and nicely: The Black Stones by Jean Maupertuis in Auvergne. A true wine sausage made from Gamay Auvergne.

An animal nose, mouth and vinous lively and especially an excellent buvabilité: Almond Cuvée Domaine du Mazel in Ardeche, owned by Gerald and Jocelyne Oustric.
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July 22nd, 2010 | Leave a Comment

10 vintages Alsace

Always with the help of Jean-Michel Speicher, we review the last 10 vintages Alsace.
2004: After the extreme conditions encountered in 2003, on the vine-compensates. So after a mild winter and early spring sullen heat Returnees to fear that the new heat wave. But the rains from mid-June are back confidence, especially as yields ahead generous. Maturation will then continue normally through the many passages interspersed with rainy periods throughout the summer sun.
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July 21st, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Wine Words From The West Coast – Dry Creek Vineyard

dry-creekAs a good many winegrape growers have discovered, something good can come from the destruction of a vineyard by phylloxera. At Dry Creek Vineyard (3770 Lambert Bridge Rd., Healdsburg) the loss of an 8-1/2 acre vineyard adjacent to the employee parking lot marked an opportunity to try an idea shared by winery owner David Stare; his daughter, winery vice president, Kim Stare Wallace; her husband, winery general manager, Don Wallace; and vineyard manager Duff Bevill.
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July 20th, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Beaulieu Vineyards in Rutherford, CA

battaglini-estate-winery1How can you resist a wine called Beauzeaux? (Say it aloud.) There is such a wine, a member of the Beaulieu Vineyard Signet Collection – a small group of limited production wines which was introduced by Beaulieu Vineyards (Rutherford, CA) in 1995. The first Beauzeaux release was the 1996 vintage in spring 1998. The most recent, the 1999, was sent to market on April Fool’s day, though there is nothing foolish about the wine.
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July 19th, 2010 | Leave a Comment

The price is always cheaper: the wine is that still true?

mdspreadOf learned experts looking at the cradle of wine quality decree said, without appeal, “beneath a sale price of € x - the figure varies depending on the weight of the media expert said - a wine is not worthy of being awarded the title of AOC. ” It has the merit of simplicity, it strikes simple minds but it is often silly. In fact the sale price to consumers has sometimes little correlation with the cost of wine.
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July 19th, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Napa Cabernet Sauvignon

This beautiful, smooth 100% Napa Cabernet Sauvignon offers enticing aromas of black cherry and cassis, followed by full, ripe fruit flavors and a hint of spiced oak.

Barrel aged sixteen months in American oak, the soft tannins help create a supple texture that fills the mouth with layers of flavor and a long, lingering finish.

Enjoy this wine with grilled meats, or hearty pasta dishes.
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July 5th, 2010 | Leave a Comment

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