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Austrian

German

Austrian

German

Austrian

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a cuvee made from several quality wines (combing "merit and heritage")

Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec, and Carmenere.

Merlot

is a red wine grape, that is used as both a blending grape and for varietal wines. Merlot-based wines usually have medium body with hints of berry, plum and currant. Its softness and "fleshiness", combined with its earlier ripening, makes Merlot an ideal grape to blend with the sterner, later-ripening Cabernet Sauvignon. This flexibility has helped to make it one of the most popular red wine varietals in the US and Chile.

(Wikipedia)

French, made from whipped egg whites and caster sugar

"Miller's wife" in French, light coating of flour before sauteing in butter

used primarily for fish

Wine tasting term. After taking a mouthful, hold wine in the mouth, and judge the flavor, tecture, acidity and tannin. The immediate description is the wine's entry. When swallowing

you judge the finish and afterwards the length.

the climate directly around the vine. It is influenced by the vintner's work in the vinyard.

The mesoclimate dscribes then the whole vineyard and the magroclimate the whole area.

is a type of wine grape as well as a type of red wine made from these same grapes in the Abruzzo region of east-central Italy. Up to 10% Sangivese is permitted to be added to the blend. It is typically a fruity, dry wine with soft tannins , and as such is often consumed young. If aged by the winery for more than two years, the wine may be labelled "Riserva."

This wine should not be confused with Vino Nobile di Montepulciano a Tuscan wine made from Sangiovese and other grapes, but not the Montepulciano variety.

Saar-Ruwer - lot's of wine-villages
From just south of the ancient Roman

city of Trier, north to Koblenz, where it
empties into the Rhine, the Mosel River

snakes its way past dramatically
steep, slaty slopes covered with some

of Germany's most famous vineyards.
The wines of the Mosel and its tributaries, the Saar and the Ruwer,
are richly fragrant, pale in colour, lightbodied with a lively, fruity
acidity. The slaty soil imparts a distinctive taste to Mosel wines,
ranging from fine-fruity to earthy, or"flinty". Often they have a hint to effervescence.

Riesling wines of great elegance and breed grow best on the steep, southern-facing slopes, particulary around Wiltingen and Scharzhofberg in the Saar-Ruwer district and in the Middle Mosel district around Bernkastel, Piesport, Wehlen, Brauneberg, Graach, Zeltingen and Erden. Müller-Thurgau is also planted in this region.
Wine: richly fragrant, racy, piquant, elegantly fruity, delicate.

unfermented grape juice

also fermented apple and pear juice

When Dr. Müller, a native of the Thurgau in Switzerland, created the grape in the Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute in the late 19th century, his intention was to combine the intensity and complexity of the Riesling grape with the ability to ripen earlier in the season that the Silvaner grape possesses.

I t became one of the most successful new grapes.

Müller-Thurgau grapes produce smooth, low-acid, medium-sweet white wines with a hint of Muscat character.

is the capital of the German state of Bavaria. TMunich is located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is Germany's third largest city after Berlin and Hamburg. The city has a population of 1.35 million and the Munich Metropolitan Region is home to around 6 million people. The city's motto is "Die Weltstadt mit Herz" ("The cosmopolitan city with heart") Its native name, München, stems from an Old German word predating the word Mönche of today's High German, meaning "Monks". Therefore, the figure on the city's coat-of-arms is a monk, and is referred to as the Münchner Kindl, the "child of Munich". Black and gold - the colors of the Holy Roman Empire - have been the city's official colors since the time of Ludwig the Bavarian

Every September till beginning of October you'll find the famous Oktoberfest in Munich.

raw, unfermented grape juice

Region Western France, around Nantes, Loire Atlantique

The Oyster wine

Muscadets are almost always vinified dry in keeping with the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) regulations.

Most of the Muscadets currently produced are vinified sur lie, meaning that, after fermentation, the wine is not racked off the lees (lie) at the bottom of the vat. This adds some complexity; and, as it is bottled straight from the vat without racking, it retains some of the carbon dioxide bubbles from fermentation which make Muscadet very slightly fizzy - perlant in French. To benefit from the extra sur lie mention (e.g. Appellation Muscadet Sèvre et Maine Sur Lie Controlée) a Muscadet must faire ses pâques (literally do its Easter) meaning that it must stay over its lees at least until the 1st of March following harvest before being bottled.

In terms of tastes Muscadet tends toward bright citrusy (lemon, lime) and minerally notes

More a family of grapes than a single variety, muscat bears no relationship with the Muscadet wine.

Food-wine pairing: Muscat shows best on its own: without food.

Districts: any warmer climates.

Typical taste: often sweet and always fruity, with a characteristic grapefruity and musky aroma. Muscat wines are instantly recognizable to anyone who has tasted a Muscat table grape.

there are different scales to measure the sugar in the must,

 in Austria KMW (Klosterneuburger Most Waage), in Germany and Switzerland Oechsle ,

in France Baume

The Nahe region is set west of

Rheinhessen, which it borders,

and east of the Mosel.

Bad Kreuznach is the region's

most important town. The

Nahe's vineyards thrive in a

variety of soils along the steep

slopes of the Nahe River and

its tributaries.

The more northerly district with its loam and sandy soil produces wines that resernble neighbouring Rheinhessen, while the slaty soil further south yields wines which suggest the

fine flowery bouquet of Mosel wines and the elegance of Rheingau wines.

Napa Valley is part of The North Coast wine region, which consists of coastal mountain ranges, rolling hills, deep valleys and vast plains – produces some of the best winegrapes in the country.
The North Coast forms a slightly crooked rectangle pproximately 100 miles long and more than 50 miles wide from the Pacific Coast Ranges in the northwest to the Blue Ridge Mountain Range in the east to the San Pablo Bay in the South, encompassing more than three million acres of land

Today, Napa Valley is home to almost 400 wineries. Its growers and vintners combine cutting-edge science with traditional techniques, and its reputation for producing world-class wines is firmly established in an ever-growing global market.

Newton Vineyards

The grape is used mostly in Piedmont to make wines such as the famous Barolo and Barbaresco. Piedmont means at the foot of the mountain (Alps).

These lightly coloured red wines can be massively tannic in youth with intriguing scents of tar and roses. As they age, the wines take on a characteristic brick-orange hue at the rim of the glass and mature to reveal complex aromas and flavours (violets, tar, wild herbs, cherries, raspberries, truffles, tobacco, prunes). These wines often take years to become approachable as they require ageing to tame the tannins from the grapes.

The name nebbiolo has two probable origins. Ripe nebbiolo grapes have a very prominent "bloom" that gives them a "foggy" or "frosted" look, so the name could come from from "nebbia", Italian for "fog". It is an alternative possibility that the name simply comes from "nobile", Italian for "noble".

Barolo is the most important and appreciated of Piedmont red wines.

Its production is very limited

New York— with a history dating back to the 1860’s, is one of America’s oldest commercial wine regions New York— home to native, French-American, and vinifera varietals is perhaps the most diverse wine-growing region in the world New York— with a wine industry that is growing and expanding every day and everywhere- among sparkling lakes, along the sea shore, above a rushing river, and just down the road.

Wine regions: Lake Erie & Chautauqua Region 

Finger Lakes Region

Central New York 

& Lake Ontario Region 

Hudson River Valley 

& The Catskills Region   

Uncork New York City 

Long Island, North Fork & 

The Hamptons Region 

Escarpment Region  Niagara

Beautifully balanced this year’s wine is striking in Marlborough’s renowned and unique style. Again this year’s wine includes a small component of fruit from our Awatere Valley vineyards complimenting the backbone sourced from our Wairau Valley vineyards,

Southbank estates is here one of the best, with its excellent Sauvignon blanc.

dish from the Provence,

Of all main-course salads, the Niçoise is my all-time favorite, with its fresh butter-lettuce foundation; its carefully cooked, beautifully green green beans; its colorful contrast of halved hard-boiled eggs, ripe red tomatoes, and black olives; all fortified by chunks of tunafish and freshly opened anchovies. It's a perfect luncheon dish, to my mind, winter, summer, spring, and fall — an inspired combination that pleases everyone, by Julia Child.

Austrian

S. German

French for hazelnut

small medallion of lamb or veal,cut from loin

beurre noisette: butter heated until it turns nut brown, used to finish dishes