Noon-Wine Selection Wine Summer fun sunny!
Summer 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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You 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.
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As 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.
How 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.
Of 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.