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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Enjoy a glass of wine? Thank the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs! Scientists say the extinction of the ancient reptiles paved the way for grapes to spread

The next time you crack open a bottle of wine, it could be worth raising a glass to the dinosaurs. It's already well known that the dinosaurs were wiped out by the Chicxulub impact event - a plummeting asteroid or comet that slammed into a shallow sea in what is today the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico around 66 million years …

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8 months, 1 week ago

The ingenious wines birthed from black volcanic craters

BBC

The ingenious wines birthed from black volcanic craters Turismo de Islas Canarias The conical hollows of Lanzarote are built in volcanic ash In Spain's Lanzarote Island, conical hollows built into layers of volcanic ash yield wines that have been created from generations of ingenuity and hard work. The island of Tenerife found eager customers in England – even Shakespeare noted …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Wine grape growers remove vineyards in New South Wales Riverina after historic low prices

ABC

In short: Riverina Winegrape Growers chief executive Jeremy Cass estimates losses of up to $2,000 per hectare on some varieties. Riverina Winegrape Growers chief executive Jeremy Cass estimates losses of up to $2,000 per hectare on some varieties. Riverina Winegrape Growers chief executive Jeremy Cass said there were losses of up to $2,000 per hectare on some varieties. "We are …

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1 year, 5 months ago

The curious history of sauvignon blanc – and what to drink if you hate it

The Independent

Sign up to IndyEat's free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Sam Tendall, co-founder of online wine shop Smashed Grapes agrees, and says sauvignon blanc’s …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Armenian wine may be thousands of years old, but it’s never been more in vogue

LA Times

Wine has always been an inseparable part of Armenian history. “Armenian wine is ancient and also entirely new,” said Master of Wine Christy Canterbury, who participated in L.A.’s Armenian-wine-centered GiniFest virtually from New York. “Armenian wine brings us grapes we don’t see grown anywhere else in the world, grapes that are uniquely Armenian,” Canterbury said. “Once in a while, a …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Long before citrus reigned in Southern California, L.A. made wine. Lots of it

LA Times

For the better part of a hundred years, as the wine historian Thomas Pinney has remarked, “California wine meant Los Angeles wine.” Think I’m pulling your hollow leg? Like the “Mother Hass” avocado tree in La Habra Heights, the San Gabriel Mission’s vineyards provided the founding madre stock of much of L.A.’s emerging commercial wine industry. He and the Californio …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Is it possible to decolonize the wine industry?

Salon

Today, California produces more than 90% of all wine made in the United States. Like Renfro and Tschirch, Jahdé Marley launched Anything But Vinifera after noticing severe underrepresentation of people of color in the wine industry — and an accompanying refusal by wine industry leaders to acknowledge wine's contribution to climate change. "Anything but" the Vitis vinifera — Cabernet Sauvignon, …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Yantai wine group explores new paths for development

China Daily

Yantai, which has been making wine for more than a century, is situated at a latitude of 37 degrees north, and is believed to be located at an optimal location for producing wine. Changyu Group, founded in 1892, is one of China's largest and oldest wine producers. Throughout the past century, the group has adhered to the company's original goal …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Ready for wine from Mizoram?

Live Mint

On Tuesday, the Mizoram Cabinet headed by chief minister Zoramthanga, allowed the processing of wine made from local grapes in the state. A story published in The Meghalayan, a newspaper from Meghalaya, highlights, “The grape growers had been growing grapes with the funding of the horticulture technology mission since 2001, and a major calamity befell them when their products were …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Chalmers Wines releases experimental bush block vintage produced under little rainfall, no trellis

ABC

A winemaking family in north-west Victoria has set out to prove that you can make top quality wine in a warm climate with very little rainfall or irrigation. Key points: The bush vine block was planted at Merbein in north-west Victoria in 2017 Just 0.5-1.6ML of irrigation water has been applied per hectare, with commercial wine grapes averaging 6ML The …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Raising a glass to Chinese vintners

China Daily

Back in December 2020, when I last managed to get out of Beijing, I spent Christmas Day in Cizhong, a village on the Lancang River in a deep valley in Yunnan province. I not only enjoyed a bottle of the Hongxiao family's "rose honey" wine, which is produced from those rare grapes, I also sampled more sophisticated blends produced at …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Why you should try darker-style rosé wines