Currently there is constant talk in scientific papers of the beneficial properties of wine on health, and there is much truth in that. References to this issue began in 1991 with a study showing that in France and other Mediterranean countries, experienced a 40 percent lower incidence of heart attacks in the United States.
Subsequent research showed that this was due, plus the Mediterranean diet and moderate consumption, but regular red wine.
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Popular often buy wine in good vintage, a good brand and try them when we do not like. How can we judge a wine without being specialists?
The wines are usually heard by three factors:
1. On the palate (what it knows.)
2. Because of its popularity or because they are fashionable. For example, in the 70′s century, California in the 80′s, Ribera del Duero in 90′s or New World wines today).
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I’ve alluded to it a bunch of times so I suppose it’s time to tell you what I’ve been talking about. I live in Kentucky, the state that Prohibition forgot. Apparently, Kentucky and Utah are the only two states left in the country that have this sort of restrictive laws when it comes to the sale of alcoholic beverages.
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Well, my pictures did not turn out very well, but the wine was great!
Last year, at the Jessamine Jamboree (the county fair in Jessamine County, Kentucky), we discovered Chrisman Mill Vineyards. We had heard rumors that there was a vineyard in Nicholasville, but we were a little skeptical. How can you grow grapes in a state where the weather changes more in a month than it does all year in some states?
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It seems that it’s been more than a year since I wrote anything for this web site. Why that is, it’s hard to say. It’s been a very busy year, and some things end up taking lower priority than others, which is a shame. To be, for a year, in a state where a large number of things take a higher priority than wine, is sad indeed.
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Sage advice, when traveling to certain parts of Mexico, and then there are always the Margaritas. They are smooth, and they say that if you drink enough of them you will see diamonds on the rim of the glass. Of course, this is just before you keel face first into your chili verde.
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They are sharing a drink they call loneliness, but it’s better than drinking alone.
For reasons that are largely none of your business, I find that this evening I am drinking alone. This is actually a good thing, as it means that I might get some writing done, if I don’t get distracted by writing about wine for too long.
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The other night we went out the farm of some friends of ours, and, with dinner, we had a good wine, and a not-so-good wine. We were very glad that we had taken two.
We started the evening by opening a Pinot Noir rose. Yes, a rose. Sorry, I don’t seem to be able to type accented letters. It was a wine from Toad Hollow, which I actually got as a door prize at a wine tasting I attended several months ago.
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