Latest update : 29 November 2019.
The liquor added to champagne wines just after disgorging, also called “liqueur d’expédition” (expedition liquor) doesn’t just serve to fill the wine level after expulsion of the yeast deposit. As the composition of this liquor, made from still wine and sugar determines the sweetness of the Champagne, it’s the ultimate step to fix the style of the cuvee: From Extra Brut and Brut, through Extra Dry, Sec, Demi-Sec all the way up to Doux, the sparkling wine is more and more sweet. Since a couple of (...)
continueAfternoon! Malbec chateau du cedre cahors le cedre 2010. Amazing colour, supple and cedary blackcurrant #topnotch pic.twitter.com/0Jo9N3q1yc
— Sophie McLean (@Sophie_McLean) February 20, 2014
A Malbec was calling my name after a long week-end. Chateau du Cedre Cahors from France is on the… http://t.co/kGJTRWhJk3
— Juanye (@followjuanzy) February 4, 2014
Fresh fish & chips,delicious domaine de l'Arjolle '08 Zin #simple @RichardGoodine @reallyjoeleary @GoodWolfeVan pic.twitter.com/UxqNfu6Mix
— Terroir Wines (@TerroirWinesVan) January 17, 2014
After our certification for organic farming in 2012, we are happy and proud to announce that the entire Le Cèdre Diffusion Company has been certified ISO 22000.
Quality politics at our estate
“First the certification for organic wine making in both vineyard and cellar, than the setup of HACCP based quality control and finally ISO 22000 certification… We made great strides in the last years. But it all goes even further back until the nineties, when we abandoned pesticides in the vineyards, (...)
The question amuses Jeb Dunnuck, the Wine Advocate’s new face and palate for the Rhône Valley, Languedoc, Washington and parts of California. I do not know his age, but he seems rather young. Anyway, he looks very sympathetic, the kind of guy you join for a beer after a long day of tasting wine (by the way, this it what I proposed to him for his trip to the Languedoc in January...).
«You know,» he answers, « tasting a lot of wines from the same region, or made with the same grape varieties, (...)
A trip through the vineyards in Champagne around Cramant, Avize and Épernay and tasting of the 2013 wines with Nathalie Vignier at Champagne Paul Lebrun.
continueTribidrag. That’s the newly revealed historic name for a grape we know remarkably well: Zinfandel. Meredith had asked federal regulators to approve the first Tribidrag to be made in modern times.[…]
All grist for the nerdiest of the nerdy - if not for the fact that Meredith is also the vine geneticist who sleuthed out the mystery of Zinfandel’s origins, finding it identical to an obscurity in a single vineyard on the Dalmatian coast of Croatia, where it was known as Crljenak Kastelanski. […] (...)
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