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By Dan and Krista Stockman Forget everything you think you know about honey wine. Because if you’re like us – or like we were until recently – you think that honey wine is heavy, sweet and simple. A visit to New Day Meadery in Elwood changed our minds, and one ...
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A Milton, Ontario winery has once again held its own at a recent wine competition, taking home numerous awards for its signature fruit wine. Scotch Block Winery placed in several categories at the recent 2008 Wine Competition. In best of show, the winery took Best Dry Fruit Wine, Best Dry/Medium ...
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The following article reminds the days when I made wine as an amateurs, making wine our of dandelions, rhubarb and what ever berry seemed to grow in our backyard or road sides… When it come to amateur wine competitions, a lot of friendly jockeying for the top spot is part ...
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Very Interesting Article I found today. Not Forbidden Fruit by Richard Paul Hinkle Santa Rosa, Calif. — Years ago, Richert & Sons in the Santa Clara Valley of California offered a string of excellent fruit and berry wines–including strawberry, apricot, plum, pomegranate and kiwi. Good as they were, sales always ...
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I was in South Korea last week and had the chance to taste several well made Korean Fruit wines. By far the most popular are the traditional Korean berry liqueurs made from blackberries and raspberries. They are made in a light “port” style. That is fermented part-way, then fortified to ...
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Do not underestimate the power of brand. A successful wine brand is the ambassador of the winery. It is what customers know and remember. After some time, a brand can also have a significant value attached to it and have a longer life span than the operators or even the ...
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The warming weather and the outdoor patio wine drinking season starting signals the start of many little pests springing out of nowhere. Uncork a bottle of your favourite raspberry wine outside in the summer and odds are good an annoying fruit fly will find your glass by the time the ...
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This “Industry Tip” deals with an important issue after all the hard work has been done growing the fruit, making the wine and properly bottling it. It is the proper storage of wine to make sure that all that hard work does not go to waste from poor handling of ...
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The first annual China International Wine Forum was help recently in Beijing. It attracted most wine professionals from all over China and many parts of the wine producing world. It was a good forum, which outlined the tremendous growth of China’s wine industry and the increased investment and involvement by ...
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