Grapes As Poetry
This is a really lovely description of the way a vineyard can be turned into a work of art. Read it for inspiration and also for appreciation of all the hard work that is going into that bottle!
Via FERMENTATIONS
This is a really lovely description of the way a vineyard can be turned into a work of art. Read it for inspiration and also for appreciation of all the hard work that is going into that bottle!
Via FERMENTATIONS
If you’re heading south to Argentina or Chile, Postales del Plata SA offers a range of wine tour operations and upscale lodging services in Mendoza. In fact, their Mendoza Wine Country tour operations have been in full swing since 2003. They include a comprehensive range of services for travelers with tri-lingual hosts, accommodations in company-owned…
Springtime in Sicily. Everything is in bloom and fragrant, love is in the air. Romantic as they come. Before summer chokes us with heat, springtime in Sicily makes me think of al fresco dinners in cobbled square with a street musician playing in the distance….and a good red wine! via [TheCorkdork.com]
My first and only trip to Australia was about five years ago when my husband and I met up with our son who had been working and traveling in the land of OZ. Our itinerary included Melbourne, Adelaide and the nearby Barossa Valley, Kangaroo Island, Hamilton Island, and of course Sydney. I gotta go back.
We are going about wine the wrong way ’round. There are rules about matching the right wine to your food, and there are rules that say that the first rule is that there are no rules. So the idea is that you once you have decided on your food, you then select a wine according…
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A mere 1,000 years ago, giant flightless birds called moas inhabited the islands of New Zealand. There were more than a dozen species of moa and the largest of these may have weighed more than 200 kilograms and stood 2 to 3 meters high. The different species of moa probably became extinct at different times,…