California is a U.S. state known for being home of the film Industry, Hollywood, for its beaches, for Los Angeles, San Francisco, …and also as a region that produces some of the best wines in the world. The most famous wine region of California is Napa Valley, Napa Valley, ancient region of the Wappo Indians. It is believed that the name of Wappa was gaven to them by the Spanish,…
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Gin is an English distilled spirit derivative from the beverage -Dutch Jenever (gin). These spirits are made from the distillation of unmalted barley, and corrected with juniper berries, besides of being flavored with cardamom and some other herbs or fruits, which give the distinctive flavor to gin. Gin has an alcohol content ranging from 43 to 47 alcohol degrees. The History of Gin As stated earlier Gin derives from – Geneva,…
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The world of wine is an exciting world, but many times, for the uninitiated, is complex and somehow confusing. Why are some wine’s grapes white and others red? How is wine made? How many different grapes are there? Today we’re paying a video that we have collected from you tube that explains all this matters, in infographic form, everything there is to know about wine in 5 minutes. Believe us,…
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From time to time we like to show you the design novelties and issues related to wine. Today we’ll show you some of the “trendy” models of bottles and packaging of wine in general: Celler the Masroig designs a new label for Vi novell 2010, their young red wine. The new design is based on computer graphics which has great success on the Internet.A few weeks ago, at Fenavin, we…
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Scottish Whisky, Scotch whiskey or simply Scotch whisky, is the exclusive and only whiskey made in Scotland, for many the best whiskey in the world. To be called Scotch whisky the spirit must conform to the standards of the Scotch Whisky Order of 1990 (UK), which clarified the Scotch Whisky Act of 1988. This record provides the following rules and standards of these spirits, so that the whiskey in question can…
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With bread and wine you can walk your road, we could say that chocolate and wine and the brain goes fine. At least this is what researchers have deduced at the Northumbria University, who claim that the combination of chocolate and red wine is good for the brain. According to the investigators, the combination of the two foods improves the blood vessel circulation in the brain, because they are rich…
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The Ice wine, also known by the German word Eiswein, is the wine which is made from frozen grapes or naturally freezed grapes, that get frozen in the own vine. This natural freezing effect prevents the freezing of sugar of the grapes, that fact makes that grapes loses water and it makes the wine sweeter than usual. The freezing process of ice wine is produced before that actual fermentation, in…
One of the containers as important as the bottle in which we see our favorite wine is the barrel where it was brought, obviously we can see them very few times cause it is there where wine remains before bottling and that process is beyond our eyes. But there’s no doubt that the barrel is part of the process of development of many wines. The barrels often have a capacity…
Australian wines characterize by their brightness, the freshness and those marked aromas characteristic of the grape. In Spain we see more and more, wines from the Antipodes. Do you want to know them? The vine arrived to Australia in 1788 by the Cape of Good Hope, and was planted in the garden of Governor Phillip, in what now is the center of Sydney. Cultivation spread quickly moving away from the…
We are all aware of the importance and consequences of global warming, but now another concern has added over this sensitive issue, global warming affects wine, consequently the wine producers and of course, consumers. In the Third World Congress on Climate Change and Wine, held a few days in the city of Marbella (Spain), it reached many important conclusions about the future of wine at the imminent global warming. Among…