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Archive for 2009
Banana wine is one of the fastest growing processed products of banana to enter the market in Africa. Like any new product, finding a niche market for banana wine is a challenge—but not in Malawi, where the several enterprises making such wines have proven to be a very lucrative market. ...
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It’s almost prayerful, the way Tom Herbruck communes with his spirits. Several evenings a week, in a tree-shrouded red barn, Herbruck engages in a ritual of wine and fire, of gleaming copper and stainless steel, ice-cold water and flame-charred oak. His rite dates back centuries, to a time when witchcraft ...
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A few days ago it was National Mead Day! If you don’t know what mead is, well, get ready for something sweet. Mead’s (honey wine) most well known by Americans as the fuel behind the berserker rage of marauding Vikings. In reality, Mead is one of the oldest beverages created ...
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Today was posted my first even article on the popular wine site “entaste.com”. I am glad to state (it also does wonders for my ego) to be one of the world’s 30 top sommeliers or wine “authorities” to contribute to this fine wine site. In the article, I take the ...
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Fruit wines are shedding their pop-cooler image. Wine lovers and experts alike are starting to give them the attention and respect once reserved for traditional grape vintages. Local vintners are among those that have proven premium fruit can produce signature wine. A Kingsville-area fruit winery wasn’t even a year old ...
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One of my favourite fruit wines is the fortified cherry wine. It can be a great dessert wine, fortified to over 16% alcohol, sweet, full bodied, highly complex in character and has an after dinner application, used in cocktail blends, kir royal, on ice or used in coulies, etc.
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Rebecca Goertz began making fruit wine when she was in her teens, and quickly learned how to bring out the best in blueberries, black currants, apples and plums. But the young Sunnybrook Farm Estate Winery winemaker, whose parents Gerald and Vivien own the Lakeshore Road business, wanted to make just ...
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STRATHMORE, AB, Canada Field Stone Fruit Wines, Alberta’s first cottage winery, was once again awarded medals at two of North America’s most prestigious wine competitions this month. The North West Wine Summit 2009 has awarded Field Stone Fruit Wines of Strathmore, Alberta a Gold Medal in the Fortified Wine category, ...
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A great event for fruit wine everywhere just happened recently at the Pacific Northwest Summit wine competition. For the first time, a fruit wine wines a “Best of Region” award in a major wine competition. Forbidden Fruit Winery with their “Pomme Desiree, Iced Apple Wine, Similkameen Valley, British Columbia” won ...
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