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Rosé wine simply defined - Examiner.com
| Rosé wine simply defined Examiner.com It is where white wine and red wine are mixed together. Although it can make for some interesting blends at home, winemakers discourage its use. … Wine Time: Jim Shirley of The Fish House |
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North Idaho: Idaho gears up for fall fests, bike rides - Missoulian4-6 Heritage Days, Spirit Lake. Events include Mount Spokane to Spirit Lake mountain bike ride, music in the park, mountain man demonstrations, steam engines and vendors. Call (208) 623-5130. 5 Parrotfest, Jimmy Buffet tribute concert and party A Young Oregonian’s Wide Range - [...]
North Idaho: Idaho gears up for fall fests, bike rides - Missoulian
4-6 Heritage Days, Spirit Lake. Events include Mount Spokane to Spirit Lake mountain bike ride, music in the park, mountain man demonstrations, steam engines and vendors. Call (208) 623-5130. 5 Parrotfest, Jimmy Buffet tribute concert and party
A Young Oregonian’s Wide Range - New York Times
Chardonnay is this, cabernet is that, drink such and such with eggplant but never with swordfish. Certainty is so much more comfortable than ambiguity. A case in point: Oregon pinot noir . The orthodox view of Oregon pinot noir places it somewhere
Hugh Johnson’s the Story of Wine
Customer Review: great!
a comprehensive guide to the history of wine. grape wine that is, they don’t go much into sake or wines made from other products, though some are mentioned. it goes through many countries and time periods and was overall very readable for a history text.
Customer Review: The most delicious wine book
Hugh Johnson’s marvelous book in a partial answer to a question that few of us have had the sense to ask. While many of us will spend valuable hours wondering: `which wine?’ we rarely ask `why wine?’
What’s the big deal? Why so many books, why such intense feeling? Wine is just the fermented juice of grapes. Yes, and music is just organized noise and sex is merely one of the ways in which organisms ensure perpetuation of their type.
The reason for the passion isn’t to be found in alcohol alone. Almost any sugary solution will support fermentation, and it seems that just about every possible sweet liquid has been fermented from time to time. An amateur winemakers’ guide in my library lists recipes for the production of wines from almonds, apples, bananas, barley, beetroot, birch sap, cloves, clover, eggplant, guava, lemons, oak leaves, orange juice, parsley, parsnips, peapods, squash, tea, tomatoes, wallflowers, yarrow and yes, to complete the alphabet, zinnias.
These ‘wines’are all possible, but none of them exist. In fact, we restrict our winemaking to just a few varieties of grape. Why?
Aside from the many economic advantages, the fermented juice of grapes is delicious. At its most common, it’s a fresh and fruity drink that quenches the thirst and gladdens the heart. At its most exalted, the basic flavors of the grape are transformed by fermentation and aging into a symphony of aromas and tastes and lingering associations. Both the bountiful nature of grape vines and the enormous appeal of their fermented fruit’s juice has led civilized man to attach a lot of meaning to wine.
Johnson’s book, a slimmed down version of the earlier Vintage , not only reminds us that the question of wine’s importance needs to be asked, it goes a long way to providing an answer. His range of reference is impressive and his writing-witting and incisive-is impeccable. When you’re ready to try to understand how wine attained its place in the modern world, there’s no better place to start than this book.
Lynn Hoffman, author of The New Short Course in Wine
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