Articles in the Wine, Ale and Spirits Category
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Nebbiolo (Nebieul in the Piedmontese dialect) is the red wine grape variety that grows in this region where it makes the DOCG* wines known to the rest of the world as Barbaresco, Barolo, Gattinara and …
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The drink that we know as punch actually originated in India and was brought back to England by employees of the British East India Company and they introduced it to the rest of Europe. The …
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Grapes were already growing in Spain millions of years before homo sapiens even appeared on earth but vine production must have started around 3,000 to 4,000 BC. By the time the Phoenicians founded Cadiz, there …
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La Rioja wine sorbet is a cool and refreshing dessert for any warm summer evening, but it’s also a very colourful and festive dessert for winter and suitable for special occasions. Even though it is …
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Beer has been brewed for thousands of years and the Sumerians and Babylonians were brewing beer at least 10,000 years ago. In Egypt the pharaohs controlled the art and it was only the most privileged …
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Emperor Marcus Aurelius Probus, a man of great foresight, laid out the first Viennese vineyards and every day when the Viennese walk down the Probusgasse, they are reminded of his immense contribution to their wine …
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Italy’s range of dessert wines is quite substantial as would be expected from a country that enjoys to eat and since they usually drink only when they eat, the variety provides for this. There are …
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Wine has been grown in Friuli since the days of the Romans and it has been influenced through the ages by the Romans, the Celts, the Furlani and the Illyrians. Kingdoms came and went and …
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Before Christopher Columbus found the 7000 island that are the Caribbean, they were inhabited mainly by the peaceful Arawak who had been living there for 1000 years after having migrated northwards 500 years earlier. Later …
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Daiquirí is a beach near Santiago in Cuba and legend has it that it was invented in 1905 in a bar called Venus that was about 23 miles east of the mine by a group …
