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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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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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