After graduating early, “color” creative period and up until the 50s, that is, for nearly half a century, Picasso almost did not write people with wine – any genre scenes or portraits. It creates hundreds if not thousands of characters – in a wide range, imaginable and unimaginable situations, but they are busy at his paintings than anything but – they drink, do not – celebrate, not – rejoice. They never even grieve over the glass alone, as before, in their hands at all very rarely have a glass of wine. This does not mean, however, that all these attributes of the wine in general subjects left the painting of the artist. No, just wine shifted away from the lively nature – in the sphere of “dead”. In the still lifes. And now there he was – abound.
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Can wine from bottles without corks
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011Nothing is more disappointing for the wine lover than a bottle of wine, which after opening a musty smell and taste for themselves. Traditionally responsible for this Fehlton is the substance 2,4,6-trichloroanisole , short TCA. The fabric is created when cork are treated with chlorine-containing fungicides. Some fungi are not thereby deterred fact, but it produce the musty TCA.
Our nose is very sensitive to this chemical. connoisseurs turn up their olfactory organ already in a TCA-containing half a nanogram per liter. This corresponds not know how to read at times, a thimble TCA, which was dissolved in Lake Constance – but a smaller lake like the Krumme Lanke Berlin might have already smell musty with a cubic centimeter.
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wine-growing region Middle Rhine back on the map of the state parliament Restaurants
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010After years of exile, there is again from the Middle Rhine wine on the map of restaurants in the Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag in Mainz. “I had long been a thorn in the Rhine River as the only Rhineland-Palatinate wine region in the state parliament restaurant was no longer present, ” said the CDU parliamentary deputy Hans-Josef Bracht, who represents the Middle Rhine region in Parliament. Therefore Bracht says the fact that he has succeeded in recent weeks after several discussions with the new tenant, get the wine of the Middle Rhine region back on the map of the state parliament restaurants.
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Top 10 wine stories
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
As is customary annual Adam Strum, publisher of Wine Enthusiast Magazine wine critic, one of the most widely read overseas, has compiled the top ten stories that have marked 2010, now in its conclusion.
Significant events and trends that have had a great impact on the wine world as a privileged observatory of the United States, one of the markets for wine produced in the most important areas of the world.
Here, then, a “summary” wine of the year drawing to a close with a look between the lines of what will be …
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Mas Cal DeMoura symbol of dynamism within the Terraces Larzac
Sunday, September 12th, 2010
“We must remain” as the theme from Jean-Pierre Jullien, callus DeMoura translation: the name given to the field, shows the interest of quality of this terroir. Now led by Vincent and Isabelle Goumard Le Mas Cal DeMoura made his little way and progressing by leaps and bounds with its famous neighbor: the Mas Jullien .
Recently interviewed as union president Les Terrasses du Larzac Vincent Goumard is nonetheless a winemaker seeking the perfect balance in his wines. To achieve this, he trusted his land and his devotion to his own vineyards. He returns with us on creating this field, his involvement as a winemaker, the characteristic of the wines that we tasted and moreover we are exposing our comments at the end of this article. Good Reading …
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Ironstone Vineyards
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
It was on a warm June day in 1990, that I first met John Kautz, visionary, patriarch and chairman of the board of Ironstone Vineyards in the small Sierra Foothills town of Murphys. After a ride around the hillside vineyards, we had walked out to the edge of an excavation opposite a rock wall where drilling and blasting had begun for the winery’s aging caves.
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Paradise Ridge Winery
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010High on a hill above the Santa Rosa plain, on the northern edge of the City of Santa Rosa, is Paradise Ridge Winery. The magnificent winery, owned by Walter and Marijke Byck, overlooks what was once the legendary Fountain Grove Vineyard, founded by the mystical prophet, Thomas Lake Harris. Harris and his followers brought their Brotherhood of the New Life to Santa Rosa in 1875, where he established his vineyards and hired the distinguished Japanese winemaker, Kanaye Nagasawa, to create what were regarded as some of the finest wines produced in pre-Prohibition California.
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Mendocino Hill
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Every now and then Lady Luck comes calling. Take the case of Dick Sherwin, a multi-talented professional whose activities included publication of Wine World Magazine. On a business trip to San Francisco in 1968, he happened to buy an amateur winemaking kit. The wine he made from the kit, he confesses, was pretty terrible, but he had been bitten by the wine bug.
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The Old-Timers
Monday, August 2nd, 2010There is a group of wine personages who started getting together at informal luncheons in 1989. They call themselves, simply, the Old Timers, and that’s what they are – wine industry pioneers who have weathered the storms of Prohibition, phylloxera, the Great Depression and all the curves that Mother Nature has chosen to pitch at them. The roster contains a lot of familiar wine names: Sebastiani, Mondavi (both Peter and Bob), Martini, Pedroncelli, Rossi, Gallo, Seghesio, and Foppiano. Those invited to lunch fit the two requirements: over 25 years in the wine industry and over 70 years of age. Most are well past 80, and Ernest Gallo has marked his 91st year.
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Rose wines, the color of spring
Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Rose wine seems to be aimed at the background. It seems difficult for example, that the selection of wines makes a bride and groom for their wedding, including a rose. Similarly, almost any wine lover would ever say that your favorite wine is a rose. For this, and are positioned white wines and especially the reds.
However, rose wine is gaining more followers. We talked a few months ago on the boom that is taking the pink Champagne in recent years. This trend is comparable to all rose wine. which become really delightful when enjoyed with the first hot days of the year …
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