How To Open a Bottle of Sparkling Wine 1. Make sure the bottle is cold. Sparkling wine tastes best when cool (45 degrees F to 55 degrees F). The best way to chill sparkling wine is to place the bottle in a bucket of half ice and half water for about 20 minutes. 2....
Wines produced from grapes grown in vineyards where there has been no application of synthesized chemical pesticides or fertilizers - either on the vines or in the soil - for at least one year before the vines were planted are labeled as "made from organically...
In French, "bouquet original," this term is applied to the smell of a wine when it comes out of the barrel before it is bottled.
In Germany, an Ortsteil is a township or vineyard area within a district (for example, Margaux in Bordeaux).
A descriptive term for barrels of any size which have oval ends (rather than the more normal round style). Generally these barrels, following the German tradition, are kept permanently in place rather than being moved around the cellar.
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