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Champagne - important wine

Appellation d’Origine - Appellation.
The Champagne is the northernmost and one of the most important wine regions of France, because it produces the sparkling wine of the same name (white or pink), prepared by the traditional method in the region.

This town is situated about 200 km from Paris, are 34,000 hectares, of which 31 000 are cultivated. The wines must comply with conditions laid down for entitlement to designation of origin, such as:

• come from grapes of the varieties Pinot noir, pinot meunier and chardonnay,
• make its second fermentation (using the methode Champenoise), ie the foam has to occur within the same bottle in the second fermentation.

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Overview of wines

Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by fermentation of the juice, fresh or concentrated grape. Its name comes from the variety ‘Vitis vinifera’ which is the grape variety from which descended most used in winemaking, and the first to be used for this

The characteristics of the wine to give the factors that affect their vineyards , namely climate region, soil and topology, but the care they give producers who produce. It is known that a grape that grows in a particular place and produces a wine, born and grown elsewhere, produce a wine with distinct characteristics.
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Wine in the history of poisoning Part 1

Do not read before dinner

Maybe you think that the concept of “style”, “school” and “classic” refers only to things like music and literature? From St. Petersburg School of Rock “,” a classic picaresque novel “,” neo-Gothic style “? In fact, the history of poisoning conceptualized in similar terms. Italian School of poisoning - subtle.

French - vulgar. Poisoned gloves or a key - a classic, but, say, a hyperactive strain of tuberculosis in the borsch (who poisoned Baron Wrangel) - fashioned kitsch. But the richest source of “classics poisoning” is a good old 19 th century England. The incredible availability of poisons, which appeared practice of life insurance and the lack of reliable ways to prove the facts of malicious poisonings in court creates a whole new wave of “domestic homicide”.
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Wines from Old and New Worlds

Wine production is not confined to Spain, France and Italy as traditionally mentioned, today the wine is produced from Canada to South Africa through the United States, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Bulgaria, Romania, Chile and Argentina among others.

Producing countries can mold himself into two major divisions, the old world with European countries and the New World with the United States, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa mainly.
The general characteristics that can identify these two great divisions are several including:
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The origin of wines

It is reported that its origin was from the year 6000ac, biblically we can find the top stories related to Noah and the wine. Since centuries later in ancient Egypt Viticulture was practiced, from where it spread to Greece and Rome, where he believed (or believed) that the wine is the representation of the blood of their gods, these beliefs were soon very well assimilated in Christianity, Islam & in Judaism.
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The History of Alfieri

The name of the Marquis Alfieri family, Lords of San Martino, is closely linked with the history of Piedmont in northwestern Italy. Listing all the illustrious personalities of the Alfieri family would be impossible, so we shall just mention a few.

The Marquis Cesare Alfieri, a politician and activist who inspired the Albertine Statues of 1848, contributed to the liberal transformation of the monarchy during Italy’s unification and became President of the Senate.
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Larchet’s Australian Premium Wine Collection

Australia is a nation of vast plains, few people and towering ambition.

“We’re a country nearly the size of the United States, but with only 20 million people,” notes Chris Hatcher, chief winemaker for Beringer-Blass Australia. “Anyone who wants to have a successful business must export.”

Indeed. Over the past two decades, American wine merchants have nearly drowned in a sea of Australian wine. Willingly, I might add.

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Sicilian Wines Once Dazzled the World

SICILY ­ There is evidence to suggest that vineyards flourished near the Greek settlement of Agrigento sometime around the 5th century BC.

That’s ancient history, of course.

Throughout antiquity the wines of Sicily were held in high esteem, the favorites of royalty. The island’s many seaports made trade with the outside world easy and profitable, and Sicily’s agricultural bounty, including wine, was in demand.

Much of the good will from the Sicilian wine trade had been squandered by the end of the 20th century AD. That’s current events, of course.
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The Quotable Wine Lover

by Kate Fiduccia

The Quotable Wine Lover by Kate Fiduccia is a great little book that all wine lovers should have on hand, whether as a coffee table book, on your desk to visit frequently, or in between the couch cushions where you know you won’t lose it. I personally enjoy picking it up and reading some quotes with a couple glasses of Cabernet while somewhat horizontal on my eight-foot chaise lounge… But you choose your own way to enjoy it.

The book is a couple hundred pages of fun quotes, sayings, and thoughts on wine by all kinds – poets, celebrities, authors, wine makers, chefs, newspapers, the Bible, and more. There is a quick forward by Daniel Johnnes, wine director and head sommelier at Montrachet, a fine New York restaurant. The Quotable Wine Lover is broken up into six fun, well thought out sections:
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