History of French Wine – The Beginnings

France is one of the countries mostly associated with wine and what is more important not just with wine as a beverage, but wine as a culture. Due to its long history of winemaking and its exceptional attitude towards wine France is considered to be one of the main winemaking and what is more important [...]

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Vermouth Fortified Wine

Vermouth is a fortified wine flavored with herbs, today it is a popular beverage both clean and as an element of various cocktails including the immensely popular martini (drawing its name from one o the vermouth brands). It was invented in the Italian city of Turin by Antonio Benedetto Carpano in 1876. The whole region [...]

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Barossa Valley Wine Region

Barossa Valley is located in South Australia 56 km northeast from Adelaide. Today it is the main and most popular winemaking region in Australia; you can easily call it the Australia’s Napa Valley. Lots of old and large Australian wineries such as Penfolds, Peter Lehmann, Orlando Wines, Seppeltsfield, Wolf Blass and Yalumba, have either their [...]

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The Great French Wine Blight

  It is well known that lots of species from large cattle to tiniest bacteria that were brought by the European colonists to new worlds made huge damage to local life forms. The history of wine also has such case, but in its case the problem came from the new world and destruction was laid [...]

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Region Review – Napa Valley Wineries

California is currently holding 89% of all the US wine production and Napa Valley is its own personal pearl. Today Napa Valley has more than 450 wineries that grow such grape varieties as Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Merlot, Zinfandel, and other popular varietals. It is one of the top wine producing regions in USA [...]

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New World Wines – South America

Colonized by the Spanish South America was destined to become a winemaking region. Nevertheless a number of political issues had a very negative influence on the whole continent and only recently two main wine producers of South America – Argentina and Chile, began their rise to worldwide fame in the world of wine. Argentina Argentina [...]

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New World Wines – South Africa

The history of wine in South Africa begins with the founding of a supply station on the Cape of Good Hope. At the time it was believed that wine could help sailors who suffered from scurvy, so the local governor was ordered to plant vineyards and establish wine production. This practically started the South African [...]

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Champagne In Popular Cultures

Champagne or sparkling wine is a type of wine surrounded by legends, mysteries and a unique charm and image which were created by numerous artists and entertainers that fascinated this drink. From the first days of Champagne it became a legend and inspired a lot of artists that helped to create the image of sparkling [...]

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New World Wines – North America

According to history the first Europeans who reached North America were the Vikings and they named the continent Vinland. Clearly the name comes from local discovered viticulture, which means that unlike Australia the continent had its own grapes. Nevertheless the art of winemaking was brought here only centuries late by European settlers who established basically [...]

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New World Wines – Australia

  “At the 1873 Vienna Exhibition the French judges, tasting blind, praised some wines from Victoria, but withdrew in protest when the provenance of the wine was revealed, on the grounds that wines of that quality must clearly be French.” This is probably the best quote to start an article about Australian wine. Today Australia [...]

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