The whole complex system of wine classifications and their denomination can be found in the field of labeling.
The whole complex system of wine classifications and their denomination can be found in the field of labeling.
Depending on whether a still wine, a sparkling wine, or an aged red is to be served, it will be necessary to open the bottle in as many different ways.
Decanting a wine, or pouring it delicately into a carafe or decanter, is a desirable operation especially in the case of aged red wines, which tend to strip of color over the years and form the deposit.
Son of Zeus and Sèmele, Dionysus is the only one among the celestials who has a mortal as a parent. He was revered as a protector of the fruit harvest, as well as being the inventor of wine. He was credited with the art of divination and was invoked as a healer.
Refinement and aging of wine.
Reliable in the contemporary age, dominated by science and research, as it was in the times of grandparents and ancestors, the moon calendar is full of suggestions relating to the cultivation of the vine and is observed by the new generations of winemakers.
A home wine cellar is a piece of the home where family and friends can spend pleasant hours. Even a forgotten little place where to store your favorite wines can get warm and intimate. Working for a functional and protected cellar is a pleasure: do it yourself.
It is known that agriculture had one of the most important cradles in ancient Egypt and already in the fifth millennium the Egyptian fellahin cultivated in the fertile valley irrigated by the "father Nile" most of the cereals,
THE CLIMATE.
Vitis vinifera (the common vine) adapts to everything and tolerates almost everything: it recovers after periods of drought, very hot summers, frosts ... but there is a limit to the cold beyond which, when the buds appear, serious damage can occur. This limit is -15°C: therefore we are not talking about spring frosts, but about a prolonged freezing climate, however, a rather rare event. In any case, at -10°C the problems for white berried grapes begin. It should be considered that with very low temperatures the greatest damage occurs in the valley, because the hills and the foothills enjoy the temperature range. The vine needs adequate heat, in correspondence with each vegetative phase.
The extraordinary qualities of structure, malleability, and flexibility of the cork make the cork the real lung of the wine, which is no longer suffocated in its cell. The choice of the cap’s right material, especially for the high-quality wines is a priority.
The cultivation of the vine: a millenary human effort.
A series of circumstances linked to the earth and climate unfolded in an infinite series of combinations: a biological factor, the grape variety, which fits into this context and opens the doors to other infinite series of combinations.