The history of wine is inseparable from that of humanity. It has been a companion of man for millennia, as well as share in the sacred and profane.
The discovery of wine was probably, as often happens in the great discoveries of mankind, a coincidence. In fact, it is hard to imagine that once picked grapes and after the summer season at home to forget a deposit with grapes. And it was during the winter, in that casual neglect, when there was fermentation of the raw material becoming wine. It was then when the man tasted the juice fermented by checking its pleasant effects.
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Muller-Thurgau, Hermann Müller, Dr. Dr. hc, Professor, Director (1891-1924). * 21.10.1850 in Tagerwilen (Switzerland), † 18.01.1927 in Wädenswil (Switzerland). Married. Bending in 1881 with Bertha Oestrich / Rheingau, 3 daughters.
The plant physiologist Müller called himself Müller-Thurgau. His birthplace is located in the canton of Thurgau Tagerwilen. His father ran a bakery and was widely “Büürlibeck” to be known. Are small bread roll bread rolls.
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I mentioned the “brothers of the Languedoc” in the article on Olivier Pithon area : Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre and Carignan, an assembly that is not uncommon to find in our bottles in Languedoc-Roussillon, sometimes embellished a touch of Cinsault to top it off.
It is time to look this month with Syrah, this beautiful vine on which one could write again and again as it is complex, and fascinating present on almost all continents of the globe.
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Midi-Sauvignon Vin looks at the world-produced and very present in Languedoc-Roussillon region of adoption of this grape varietal aromas with very pronounced.
The first traces of its culture back to the 18th century. The Loire and the South-West are home. Today, its culture was exported beyond our borders. Australia, the United States (mainly California), but particularly New Zealand produces great wines made from Sauvignon in many areas.
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That in the distant continent of unique species like the platypus and the kangaroo is home to know Europe Educated classes. That there high quality wines, not just mass production but thrive in this country almost a secret. Astonished, the European wine world had in the eighties to take note of that as an Australian Red (Grange) could make it, the assembled elite of Bordeaux wine-tasting area in comparison to beat on their own terrain.
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The approximately 20,000 hectares of vineyards are located primarily in the southwest of the front Country. Some are looking at around 1,500 m and are thus among the highest vineyards in Europe. In 2000 it was half a million hectoliters of wine (mainly fortified wines) are produced.
There are very few varieties that are unaltered, however, as the island was spared the phylloxera from. A large part will be produced as table grapes and raisins. Dominant in the 15 indigenous species like the red Mavro (in German: dark, the most planted red grape variety of Cyprus), Maratheftiko and ophthalmic and the white Xynisteri and Malaga (Muscat of Alexandria). Mavro and Xynisteri are the most common indigenous grape varieties.
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Cyprus is probably the oldest wine-producing region in Europe. Even the Phoenicians and Greeks founded the tradition of sweet and dessert wines. Excavations of the Italian archaeologist Dr. Maria Belgiorno show that the Cyprus wine over 5000 years back on. Legend has it that the first mortal king Ikarios, of Dionysus, the god of wine, the art of wine making has been taught.
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Simposy – means “to drink together.” In classical Greece simposy – is ritualized feast of fun under the patronage of the god Dionysus. Men’s forum, where table-talk was accompanied by wine and entertainment – games, dances, songs. Butler carried the wine and simposiarh directed the conversation, which could constitute a self solving of puzzles, reading poetry or political debate could revolve around sporting events, theatrical productions, or some kind of philosophical problem, if simposii attended by scholars. So, in the famous Feast Plato described the prototype of all modern scientific and philosophical debate – simposy on Eros, which was attended by Agatha, Aristophanes, Socrates, Phaedrus, Pausanias. Hugh Johnson, “History of Wine” , Wikipedia “Simposy ”
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Cava is a sparkling wine of great quality score is the second fermentation in the bottle (champanoise method) which is produced mainly in the Catalan region of Alt Penedès, which gives 95% of Spanish production, and specifically in the town of Sant Sadurni d’Anoia. But today, other Spanish wine regions such as Valencia, Aragon and Ribera de Duero and others are getting top quality champagne that have nothing to fear from the traditional Catalan cava.
The grapes need these wines are usually white: Macabeo, Parellada and Xarel-so, though few have been carried out pink champagne to those used varieties Garnacha, Monastrell and Pinot Noir Trepat.
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The champagne is a sparkling wine from the region of Champagne (France), which is very popular in the world. So much so, that many countries have made efforts to get similar wines to market and deal with the French competition.
There are traces of it from the Tertiary had vineyards in the Champagne region and is used for wine, since then, until the arrival of the Celts, continued with this tradition, but from the year 57 BC, when Julius Caesar invades Gaul and the Romans settled in this region, settling in her noble and starting with the traditional culture of the vine. It then comes the champagne.
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