Keenan and his label Caduceus Cellars brought some star power to Arizona wine making.
Greek wine and wine making is as ancient as the marble columns that line the Parthenon.
While Georgia might not spring to mind as an important wine producer, researchers have found evidence of the world's oldest wine making in the region.
It is the flagship winery of the Wagner family, which has been involved in California wine making for five generations and well over a century.
And its overcoming that perception that makes touring the vineyards and wineries tucked in along the Northern Arizona wine trail a chance to explore a new frontier in wine making and tasting.
French cigar traders draw a parallel with what happened to French wine making in the 1970s: despite scandals, defeats in tasting tests and competition from new wines on three continents, French growers complacently rested on their vines, convinced that they had the best soils, the best wine-making weather and the best grapes.
After shipping their wine for decades to markets in the former Soviet Union, Georgia's winemakers are now struggling to introduce their products and their unique wine-making techniques to the rest of the wine-drinking world.
Instead of making white wine out of it, Yankees are fermenting pinot meunier on the skins and making red table wine, as they do with merlot, cabernet and syrah.
They made significant changes in vineyards and wineries, replanting varietals, reducing yields and improving wine-making technology.
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Other hobbies included archeology, writing, wine-making, cooking and industrial design.
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During apartheid, boycotts targeting the country's racist policies had isolated its wine-making industry from the rest of the world, which meant that modern cultivation techniques, foreign varietals and rich export markets were all effectively off-limits.
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Debbie, who is extremely familiar with the art of wine-making, also prepares snack offerings such as ham and cheese croissants, fine cheese plates, fresh baguettes and gourmet chocolates to pair with wines that age two or three years in French oak barrels.
The epiphany Sharp had led to the creation of The Urban Wine Company, a London-based collective of growers committed to making wine with their own grapes.
And we are thanking them with our dollars every day for making wine more accessible and universally palatable.
Growing up I only saw the hard work part of growing grapes and making wine.
The process of making wine is, for the most part, environmentally friendly, with minimal carbon output.
Growing and making wine here is difficult and expensive, even in a good year.
But the biggest battle is over liberalisation: the bold idea of making wine that customers actually want to buy.
In the rolling hills of Tuscany, the Frescobaldi family has been making wine for 30 generations and some 700 years.
Her first inclinations toward making wine came in the midst of a malarial fugue while she was living in Africa.
Happily making wine in California at Sine Qua Non winery, Harrison was invited by friends to move to Oregon and make wine.
The French have been in the business of growing grapes and making wine for a long time, and the Chinese are new at it.
Burt started making wine in his garage from purchased grapes.
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While brewers are opting for canned packaging over bottles and wine brands are making the boxed line cool again, some entrepreneurs are finding solutions by creating new product categories.
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Mr. Soles is one of the Oregon originals a winemaking pioneer who came from Texas by way of Australia and Switzerland 27 years ago to try making wine in a marginal climate.
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While winemaking in Napa became increasingly reliant on high technology, Mr. Draper was essentially making wine the same way it had been made for centuries, with minimal additions of sulfur as a preservative and not much else.
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By 1969, the partners decided they needed a full-time winemaker and turned to Mr. Draper, a 33-year-old Stanford grad who had been making wine in Chile. (Long story.) Although he grew up on a farm in Illinois, Mr. Draper was a multilingual epicurean who'd spent time in the vineyards of France and Italy by the time he arrived at Ridge.
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