On Food and Cooking

wine had become a standard beverage in Greece, one that was made strong, watered down be ...

It was in Roman times that wooden casks — an innovation of northern Europe — arrived along the Mediterranea ...

them with tracts of land, which they then cleared of forest and reclaimed from swamps, bringing system ...

wine regions of France. Most of the wine was consumed locally, and the grapevines grown not in vineyards bu ...

curved blade of the knife used to harvest grape bunches, or to the shape of the bunch stem. Grapple ...

delightfully bubbly by transferring it from barrel to bottles before it had finished fermenting. And a few decade ...

pressure (the glass strength came from manufacturing with hot coal fires rather than wood fires). A ...

a living mass of microbes, and thus had made it possible to begin to identify and control the kinds of ...

period...during which the wine must pass from a permeable container [the barrel] to one nearly impermeable ...

winemaking, more good wine is being made in more parts of the world than ever before. Traditional an ...

their content of water, sugar, acid, alcohol, and other components. The effects of barrel and bottl ...

therefore determine many of its qualities. Their most important components are Sugars, which the yeasts feed ...

flavonols. Aroma compounds, which may be generically grapey, or distinctive of a particular grape variety. Many ...

people essentially isolated from each other and living in different environments. So there developed a ...

The Influence of Growing Conditions; Vintage and “Terroir” Pampered Vines Don’t Make the Best Wines As Pli ...

minerals and light and heat — that encourage complete but slow, gradual ripening. Those conditions ...

Ives), midwestern Vitis aestivalis (Norton, Cynthiana), southeastern Vitis rotundifolia (floral-citrus Scuppernong), ...

drain away from the roots, and absorb and release the sun’s heat to the vine in different ways. A south- ...

more the product of modern fermentation technology. Making Wine The making of a basic table wine can be divided ...

The substances important to wine quality are not evenly distributed in the grape. The stems contain bitter-tasting ...