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Grape 87% Chardonnay, 5% Viognier, 3% Malvasia Facts The wine is named “Sur Lies” (pronounced lees), after the dead yeast cells (lies) which settle to the bottom of fermentation tanks. If these cells are agitated (usually by the winemaker stirring the vat), the wine will take on some of the qualities of the yeasts, giving additional richness, complexity and a toasty quality. Only one third of the wine that goes into the final blend…
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The first vineyards at Biltmore were established in 1971, and to this day the Estate remains the most visited winery in the United States. Around 1 million annual visitors stop by the North Carolina based Biltmore Winery to sample their award-winning wines each year. The winery currently produces everything from an Estate Viognier, to a Limited Release Malbec, right through to a Champagne-style Blanc de Blanc, all hand-crafted by the winemaking team of Bernard…
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This will surely piss off the French!!! A research team from UCLA says it has found the world’s oldest winery, in Armenia! "It’s the oldest proven case of documented and dedicated wine production, stretching back the horizons of this important development by thousands of years," said Gregory Areshian, co-director of the excavation for University of California Los Angeles’s Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Areshian states that the clay pots and vats recently discovered in a cave…
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