Elevage
Another word for your wine glossary – Elevage. It sounds so smooth, doesn’t it? Apparently it has no translation but for the meaning check this posting.
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Another word for your wine glossary – Elevage. It sounds so smooth, doesn’t it? Apparently it has no translation but for the meaning check this posting.
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A new Portuguese tapas and wine bar in the heart of Times Square is a great place to taste hard-to-find wines from Portugal. Tíntol, which is the Portuguese slang word for red wine, has a wine list of more than 150 reasonably priced Portuguese and Spanish wines, as well as 30 wines by the glass…
Oh yes, for a while they were competing with each other. Wine in moderation had a reputation for bringing substantial health benefits while my other love, chocolate, was always relegated to adding unwanted inches…but now chocolate seems to have health benefits on a par with wine! This is plainly good science…Agenzia
Monterrey County, California, is enjoying a grape boon. They are so prosperous in the vine that they don’t have enough wineries to handle the production. Some of their grapes are going to production and bottling centers outside of the County. So if you are thinking of setting up your own winery…maybe you should take a…
About 100 yards south of the famed Slanted Door Restaurant in the Ferry Building along SF’s Embarcadero is Boulettes Larder. Who’s Boulette? The owner’s dog, so I’ve heard, but the food in this European style bistro is terrific with a range of daily meat, vegetarian and fish specials, ranging from $6.50 to $15.50. The desserts…
The Dutch make great beer, so I was surprised that they now also make a wine refresher just for women called Sophie & Sophie, a rosé sold in the small bottles shown here. Ingredients: • Wine (51%), • Dealcoholized wine (31%), and • Grape must (juice made from freshly pressed grapes,18%). Alcohol content is only…
Here is part 1 of 5 of our UNCORKING THE CODE series, easy and basic information on how to relish our wine. PART ONE – THE WINE LABEL I have posted some links about wine labels, (Timmy, thanks for your comment)… but here is the ABC. The wine label has two kinds of information: mandatory…