Wine, Pleasure, Beauty
Wine, happiness, a culture of pleasure. An exploration that roams from a local wine drinking community to a whole world of passion, beauty, and pleasure that awaits us out there. You know, eat, drink, and be merry-type stuff. Let's dive into wine and pleasure, but not take ourselves too seriously. After all, as a friend of mine likes to point out to beer geeks and wine freaks, "we're just talking about 10 minutes of pleasure, that's all."
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Cheers!
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“Generations of growers have done much more than simply preserve the varieties down the centuries. French peasant farmers in Burgundy, for example, traditionally renewed their Pinot Noir vines by a technique called selection massale, known as ‘field selection’ in the US. This involved going round the vineyard in late summer and marking the most promising looking plants to use for cuttings in winter, once they became dormant. As each grower had slightly different criteria for making this selection, each vineyard’s population of Pinot Noir vines took on distinct characteristics, creating, in effect, the beginnings of a host of new sub-varieties.”
- from Real Wine, by Patrick Matthews
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