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Wine Regions

White Burgundy Wine

26 November 2009
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With a reputation for elegance and sophistication, white Burgundy wines are an enduring favourite among white wine lovers around the world. Typically made from Chardonnay grapes, white Burgundy is considered to be a class apart from your common or garden Chardonnay wine and is many a wine buff’s tipple of choice. Unfortunately, for wine buyers [...]

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Chablis

22 October 2009
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Photo by CocktailSteward from Wikimedia Commons
A much-celebrated wine producing region in the north of Burgundy, France, Chablis is renowned for its excellent white wine, made from the Chardonnay grape.
Although made from the same grape varietal as that most popular of white wines – Chardonnay itself – Chablis has a distinctly different and some would [...]

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Burgundy White Wine

8 July 2009
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Burgundy is a beautiful region in Eastern France that is famous throughout the world for producing an exquisite variety of red and white wines, which are made from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes respectively. The picturesque and historical region of Burgundy is amongst the most Terroir-oriented in France, which essentially refers to the unique geographical [...]

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New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc

7 June 2009
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New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc is a renowned wine in the world, and one of the most profitable too. It is relatively easy to produce, yet the high quality and pleasing tastes mean it can command a premium. New Zealand’s Savignon Blanc is one of the best of its kind in the world. This commercial breakthrough [...]

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French White Wine

18 February 2009
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To make wine, the juice of grapes is introduced to yeast (a living organism) which feeds off the sugars in the fruit converting them into alcohol and carbon dioxide. When all the sugars have been converted a wine is described as ‘dry’. When residual sugars remain, the wine is sweeter. With so few ingredients you [...]

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Spanish White Wine

11 February 2009
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As you would expect with a country that has witnessed the rise and fall of many civilisations, Spain has much to offer in terms of history and culture and it is fair to say that wine is a firm part of its traditions today just as much as ever. It was the Phonecians who first [...]

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Australian White Wine

3 February 2009
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Australia is often regarded as a ‘new-world’ wine making region, a market that has really only been in the competition for just over a decade. However, as any proud Australian will tell you, this nation’s wine-making history is as deep and rich as any good bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon. It was Governor Phillip, a British [...]

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German White Wine

29 January 2009
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Like much of Europe, Germany’s wine making history was impacted by the arrival of the Romans whose viticultural practices, such as the trellis systems, were still used in Germany right through to the eighteenth century. However, it was perhaps the spread of Christianity many centuries later that had the largest impact on the success of [...]

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Italian White Wine

27 January 2009
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The very mention of the word ‘Italy’ tends to conjure up several images; good wine, good food, fashion, beautiful villas set amongst rolling hills or a traditional Tuscan landscape…but if we just go back to that first image again, ‘wine’, how many of us can truly say they associate Italy with white wine rather than [...]

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New Zealand White Wines

7 January 2009
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If Australia is considered a new-world wine-maker, then New Zealand must surely be the younger brother; and whilst the patriotism of the country wouldn’t allow for comparison, it has to be fair to say that without the successes of Australian exports, the rest of the world would have rarely ventured from the safety of Europe’s [...]

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American Wine

12 December 2008
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It is widely believed in the United States the 1976 Judgment of Paris launched the American wine industry, after a blind tasting showed how well Californian wines performed against more established French wines. Grape growing and winemaking in the United States began long before then however.
     

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