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In the modern world viticulture, the process of growing wine grapes, has been raised from ancient art to a complex combination of science and art.
Add in all the other specialist knowledge and skills required to produce the end product, a bottled wine, and you have a Herculean (or is that Dionysian?) task.
Vintners, makers of wine,...
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Few agricultural endeavors are as complex as winemaking. And at the end of the process, one gets to enjoy a good glass. Site selection, grape variety, soil preparation, sunlight control, fermentation management, even the type of cork used all play important parts in producing fine wines.
Wine grapes are grown in a pair of latitude...
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Wine, like anything else, will always change over time. The trick in storing wine is to control the rate and types of change to produce desirable changes and avoid harmful ones. The variables needing to be controlled are air, temperature, light, vibration and humidity.
Nothing spoils good wine faster than too much air
Air causes...
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In one form or another winemaking has been carried out for thousands of years. Pottery discovered in Persia (present-day Iran), dated at 5,500 BC show evidence of grape use for winemaking. Jars from Jiahu in China containing wine from wild grapes date to between 6000 and 7000 BC.
But whether ancient or modern, many of the same...
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