It takes a lot of sheep to make good wine in New Zealand. Sheeps milk, to be more exact.
Not that beer is losing ground as a favorite drink for the winemaking set during harvest; and these winemakers are not necessarily guzzling back tall glasses of the white milky stuff. But if it weren’t for all of the sheep in the country, who knows how long it would have taken New Zealand to get into the international winemaking game.
Entering wine country in Portugal is almost like being Alice falling down the rabbit hole. It’s a whole other world. It is also one of the most intriguing wine regions of the world.
Port wines have been famous for centuries, and its winegrowing area was one of the very first in the world to be legally limited by certain boundaries (called demarcation). Now Portugal’s wine producers are taking their table wines just as seriously as their fortified wines. And table wines from Portugal are among the top ten imports into the U.S. There are roughly 230 grape varieties grown here.
The Rhone Valley in the South of France is split into two regions. With 95% of Rhone Valley wine coming from the Southern Region, it easy to overlook the fantastic Hermitage and Cote-Rotie wines of the Northern Region.
TGIF Today is Grüner Veltliner Friday: Today I would like to talk to you about Grüner Veltliner, no it is not a new strain of flu or the latest socially transmitted disease, however I do want to warn you that once you have tried it you might become infected with the desire to drink it [...]
I thought that I would take a break from the Wine Bloggers Conference navel gazing and bring you a post about what is sometimes referred to as the “oak monster” or the “winemakers spice cabinet” I find it fascinating that an oak tree takes almost 100 years to grow to maturity and can live up [...]
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