A brief summary of Tasmania’s key wine regions and suitable grape varietals.
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Wine Fact of the Day – Wednesday, 19 August 2009
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Wine Fact of the Day – Friday, 10 July 2009
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more about Tokaji…
Aszú sweet wines are controlled by by minimum sugar and ‘extract’ requirements (how much juice can be acquired from a bunch of grapes). Traditionally, the concentration of Aszú wines was measured by the number of ‘puttonyos’ of grapes were used to prodcued the wine. ‘Puttonoyos’ are very similar to baskets and are approxiamtely [...]
Wine Fact of the Day – Thursday, 9 July 2009
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Tokaji (toh-kye): a Hungarian sweet white wine produced in the Tokaj, a region in the north east of the country. Wines produced in 2 villages in Slovakia are also allowed to use the name Tokaj, since, pre-World War I, they belonged to Hungary. Tokaji is usually made with Furmint and Hárslevelű grapes and sometimes is [...]
Wine Fact of the Day – Wednesday, 8 July 2009
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Rivesaltes (reev-salt): a village in southern France, north of Perpignan and a name that applies to 2 styles of wines produced there. Both wines are sweet, fortified wines (a category known as Vins Doux Naturels – VDN). Muscat de Rivesaltes AOC, accounts for about 70% of France’s Muscat production and is the only sweet, [...]
Wine Fact of the Day – Tuesday, 7 July 2009
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Recioto (reh-chee-yo-to): a style of wine produced in the Veneto region in northern Italy. Recioto wines are almost always sweet wines and are produced by selecting either the ripest grapes or the ripest grape bunches, harvesting them late and allowing them to dry on racks in special drying rooms (see image below). What inevitably happens [...]
Wine Fact of the Day – Monday, 6 July 2009
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Daily wine fact. 06 July 2009 – Vendange Tardive
Wine Fact of the Day – Friday, 3 July 2009
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Botrytis: a fungal disease that can affect grape vines, particularly in warm, moist, humid conditions. The bad form of the disease is also known as ‘grey rot’ because it turns the grape bunch a dull grey colour. The benevolent form of the disease is known as ‘noble rot’ because even though the fungus attacks ripe [...]
Wine Fact of the Day – Thursday, 2 July 2009
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Daily wine fact: Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venice
