I once met Andrea Immer at a network affiliate Television station, when a freak double booking had placed us on the same show. She made her presentation first and I was impressed with her simple, straightforward approach to wine and the clear, precise explanations that she gave. Andrea continues this pattern in her first wine book ‘Great Wine Made Simple’, which is sub-titled ‘Straight Talk from a Master Sommelier’.
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Great Wine Made Simple By Andrea Immer
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010The wine starts to table” Sandrine Audegond
Monday, May 10th, 2010
The approach the author was initially create 14 families of wines (eg circles, the wealthy, the complex, fruity, …) and then proposes a series of recipes that these wines can accompany with happiness. Each recipe has a full page, without pictures but with a clear layout and comfortable.
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Wine review:Codru
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
Red table wine vintage “Codru”, made from grapes of Cabernet-Sauvignon (75%) and Merlot (25%), which the Moldovan wine producers is grown in Central and South zones of Moldova on the sunny slopes of hills.
Actually Mark “Codru” was founded by Moldovan RIVW in 1966.
This wine has a garnet color with onion tone. Bouquet “Codru” different characteristic variety “Cabernet Sauvignon” morocco tones and slightly bitter, astringent saturation attached by adding “Merlot”.
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Wine chemistry
Sunday, April 11th, 2010Author: Juan Jose Moreno and Rafael Andres Peinado Vigara Amores
Year 2010 (1st edition). Coated paper 522 pages, 150 illustrations, many full color (diagrams, tables with useful information, pictures, examples, etc.).. Hardcover. Size: 24 x 17 cms. This book is presented as an essential tool for the winemaker makes outstanding wines in the domain of chemistry winemaking. Not see the production of quality wines without the knowledge of chemistry provides winemaking.
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Oz Clarke’s Introducing Wine
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Introducing wine
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Ahlgren Vineyard Santa Cruz Pinot Noir
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
This is one of the strangest reviews I have ever done, because the wine concerned has long since been sold. Our purpose is to tell readers about this exceptional Santa Cruz winery which is producing world class wines.
Only a few hundred cases of this superb Pinot Noir are produced each vintage by Ahlgren Vineyards at their remote location in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The winery is only 40 minutes drive from the Ahlgrens’ original winemaking facility in the Silicon Valley but could be on another planet. California-based wine enthusiasts will be rewarded by a visit but do contact the winery in advance at www.ahlgrenvineyard.com as they open for limited hours.
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Nobilo – Waiting for Sauvignon Blanc
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Nobilo is the second largest wine company in New Zealand. It was founded in 1943 by Nikola Nobilo, a Croatian of Italian descent from the island of Korcula. In fact several members of the Nobilo family still survive on the island and have been tending vineyards there for some 300 years. Nikola planted his first small New Zealand vineyard at Huapai, just to the northwest of Auckland on the North Island, and went on to inspire a family-driven operation that developed into the leading exporter of New Zealand wines.
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Rymill Coonawarra – The Answer Lies in the Soil
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Careful note should be made of owner Peter Rymill’s middle name ‘Riddoch’. It comes from his great grandfather, John Riddoch, who is best-known as the Father of the Coonawarra region in South Australia.
Riddoch, initially a humble brickmaker, was born in Scotland in 1827 and sailed to Australia in 1850 on an assisted passage. In 1852 he struck gold at Ovens Valley, discovering a nugget that he sold for US$1450. This would have been enough to buy around 10 small houses, but instead he immediately invested the money in a bullock wagon and the construction of a supply store at Ballarat. From these premises he could provide any materials the goldminers wanted, from simple shovels to oil lamps or even woollen clothing. Next, he opened a second store at Geelong and continued to increase his profits by selling essential provisions within walking distance of the miners’ claims. He worked in partnership with his brother, Alexander, and they proved their considerable business acumen by following the gold strikes; as one goldfield became exhausted so they closed their local store and re-opened at the location of the next one.
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WYNDHAM ESTATE – World Renowned Vineyard Planted by Convicts
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Wyndham Estate, founded in 1828, can justifiably claim the title of Australia’s oldest surviving winery. Yet many may be surprised to learn that it was cultivated initially by British convicts, who had been exiled to the colony of New South Wales.
To tell the whole story it is necessary to go back to 1801 and the birth of George Wyndham, son of local squire William Wyndham and his wife Laetitia, who owned the prosperous estate of Dinton, near Salisbury, in the English county of Wiltshire. George was born into a wealthy land-owning family, who possessed farmland stretching from the south coast of England across to the Bristol Channel. He received a privileged education, first at Harrow school and then at Cambridge University.
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XANADU – A Report from a Vinous Pleasure Dome
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010In 1797 the English poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was taken ill in an isolated farmhouse on the bleak expanse of Exmoor in England’s West Country. There he fell into a drug-induced sleep and dreamed of Xanadu, the summer palace of Kubla Kahn. Upon waking he committed his vision to paper. Later, he explained that he published it ‘rather as a psychological curiosity, than on the grounds of any supposed poetic merits.’