| The interesting thing is that sexy wines tend to come from certain grape varieties and wine growing areas. |
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| I've even been asked by winemakers and importers to write my wine list according to region instead of grape variety. |
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| Larvae of the grape root borer attack the larger roots and crown of grapevines. |
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| After stints as a waitress, an air hostess and a grape picker, her broadcasting career kicked off with Radio Merseyside. |
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| Chardonnay is the main grape variety, with Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, and Pinot Noir a long way behind. |
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| However, weather can trick the plant, meaning sugar levels can indicate ripeness while the pip of the grape remains hard or green. |
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| Yet the demand for the rich, full-bodied, lemony, appley or peachy charms of this easy-going, easy-swigging grape continues. |
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| The natural acidity of the grape gives the wine a dry finish that is as pleasant on a warm day as a cool northern breeze. |
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| The grape boycott helped change policy precisely because it did not try to delegitimize a whole society. |
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| Sounds like it might be a pretty useful ability, particularly if you were a grape presser. |
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| The grape pulp could be subject to a second pressing, or even, after being soaked for a day, a third, to produce a thin drink for slaves. |
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| Concord grape juice has the highest total antioxidant level of any fruit, vegetable or juice tested. |
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| This scramble for excellence has confirmed the benefits of cooler sites and matching locality to grape varieties. |
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| A wide range of grape varieties is grown at least passably well, which has distracted from the question of what the district does best. |
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| The most common flavonoid-containing supplements are Pycnogenol, grape seed extract, citrus flavonoids, quercetin, rutin, and soy isoflavones. |
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| There are about a hundred different items including double sugar bowls, grape dishes, tooth mugs and soap dishes. |
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| The muscat grape is an aromatic one that smells of ripe juicy eating grapes. |
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| The Jacobites stood the fire for some time before charging, being decimated by grape and musket shot. |
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| It had the roundness of a Concord grape Grandpa took off his vine and gave me to suck out of its skin and swallow whole, in Ohio. |
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| Unlike citrus, Concord grape was expected to be less tolerant of soil moisture and high temperatures but more tolerant of lower temperatures. |
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| You'll get a glassful of heart and brain benefits from either French red wine or American Concord grape juice. |
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| Herbs such as dandelion leaf and root, milk thistle, artichoke, Oregon grape root, chelidonium and curcumin also support liver function. |
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| Grape shot was widely used in the 19th century wars, but by the time of the American Civil War, grape was primarily used by navel gun crews. |
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| Lemon juice contains about six decigrams of the alkaline to half a liter and grape four and a half decigrams. |
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| One of the first gazpacho recipes consisted of almond meal, sour grape juice, and breadcrumbs, a dish still served in Spanish restaurants. |
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| Bitter foods like tart red grape juice, arugula, watercress, and dandelion greens also work when you incorporate them into meals. |
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| Due to the low amount of protein in grape flesh it was necessary to concentrate protein in extracts by acetone precipitation. |
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| Forty-eight recognized grape varieties are cultivated on a commercial scale in Armenia. |
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| In the spring of the year, when the leaves begin to open, the wild fox grape sends forth its flower buds. |
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| With just over a month to go before this year's grape harvest, vineyard owners and wine connoisseurs are hoping the good weather will continue. |
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| Although these blends are usually a producer's most expensive wines, only varietal wines made from a single grape qualify for D.O.C. status. |
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| For varietals, the wine must be made of 85 percent of the grape variety shown on the label. |
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| A varietal is a wine made predominantly from one specific grape and is labeled as such, for example, California Merlot. |
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| Merlot is Bordeaux's most planted black grape variety, and has been enjoying unaccustomed popularity elsewhere. |
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| As a cheaper alternative, the following wines are made by Burgundian winemakers using the traditional grape varieties already featured. |
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| You could, for example, taste wines from one grape variety such as Merlot, and compare Merlots from around the world. |
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| Which is a shame, because although I am not yet convinced that Malbec is a noble grape variety, Syrah definitely is. |
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| He conceded that persuading customers to back the noble Riesling grape would not be the easiest thing Tesco had ever done, but he was confident. |
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| Vintners are busy with an early vendange, the annual grape harvest that normally does not start until mid-September. |
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| Bonny Doon Vineyard of Santa Cruz uses grape spirits to fortify Framboise, its raspberry wine. |
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| I liked the kick it gave the chicken and the green grape jelly was a great balance. |
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| The presence of grapes in a salad is abominable, but sauces made from fermented grape juice are essential. |
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| The white winter flowering heather and pink cyclamen had faded but were soon replaced by violas, primulas and grape hyacinth. |
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| Then, in spring, successive bursts of daffodil, grape hyacinth, and tulip flowers heightened the show. |
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| Among the miscellaneous bulbs are the mildly-scented grape hyacinth and dainty Iris reticulata. |
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| Currants and mint give the rice-stuffed grape leaves a sweet, bright flavor rather than their characteristic one-note mushiness. |
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| The 2000 vintage has been so kind to grape growers around the world that most of them have produced excellent wines. |
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| In grape season, fresh hanepoot grapes were used and Kaapsche jongens served. |
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| Changing tastes in grape variety have also conspired against the humble canned vino. |
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| Like these bulbs, the grape hyacinth, is also very affordable and grows well in any well-drained soil. |
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| It is the alcoholic fermentation resulting from the natural transformation of grape sugar into alcohol. |
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| This baking process acts on the grape sugar and gives the Sherry its distinct flavor. |
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| Dry white wines are made by allowing all of the grape sugar to turn into alcohol. |
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| The base wine is bottled, natural grape sugar and yeasts are added, the bottles are sealed, and the second fermentation begins. |
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| They are derived from grape sugar and constitute the first visible product of photosynthesis. |
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| Warily she plucked a grape from the bunch and popped it in her mouth, chewing before swallowing. |
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| They are present in grape berries and leaves where they occur mainly under glycoconjugated forms. |
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| You know the varietal tide is turning when a lowly worker grape such as gordo blanco can command more dollars than even the cheapest Chardonnay. |
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| The deluxe assortment brings a couple of irresistible, homestyle grape leaves stuffed with rice. |
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| Groundcover plantings of smoky mauve heathers come alive in spring with surrounding sweeps of cobalt blue grape hyacinths. |
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| To finish this festive breakfast, here is the sweet grape hearthbread, which is just as good to serve with rich milky coffee or a cup of tea. |
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| Palomino is a white grape widely grown in Spain and South Africa, and best known for its use in the manufacture of sherry. |
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| The decline of ostrich farming led to a rush into grape production and a surplus of fruit. |
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| The sac is often covered by a thin layer of skin and can range in size from the dimensions of a grape to those of a grapefruit. |
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| They documented the Nile's central role hieroglyphically on many monuments and tomb murals, symbolizing it in the form of a grape vine. |
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| More daring is the Japanese Juggler, which has white rum with chopped pineapple, orange, pineapple, and grape juice with coconut cream. |
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| I sat back down and resumed my editing, sticking the grape lollipop back in my mouth. |
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| I found periwinkles and primroses in full flower, bluebells, just coming along nicely thank you, grape hyacinths, and polyanthus. |
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| After a few days, the sought after botrytis-infected grape can rot further by the action of another fungus into a gooey grey lump. |
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| Plant tulips first, then add enough soil to achieve the proper depth for the grape hyacinths. |
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| He grew up on a grape and citrus farm at Robinvale, on the Murray River in north-west Victoria. |
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| The shrub cover is rather closed and contains saplings, red osier, grape vine and occasional pure stands of bladder nut. |
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| The olive harvest falls after grape harvest, during a period of time when he'd otherwise have nothing for his workers to do. |
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| This is a mistelle, a sort of wine made from unfermented grape juice and cognac. |
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| The rare but flavoursome petit verdot grape is becoming fashionable in Bordeaux where it is used to give top clarets the edge. |
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| Her mission is preserving populations of native rock grape plants in situ, on site in their native habitat, as part of an ecological preserve. |
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| At Wollaston in Northamptonshire, the discovery of grape pollen in Roman planting trenches seems to have clinched the argument. |
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| A newcomer on the scene, at least to American palates, is tempranillo, the hearty Spanish grape that goes into Riojas. |
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| Was the wine in the wedding miracle of Jesus fermented wine or unfermented grape juice? |
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| For desserts, we plumped for the grape and butterscotch cheesecake, with a touch of ice-cream, and the banoffee pie. |
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| Among white wines, Chardonnay stands up better to being boxed than most grape varieties. |
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| Bordeaux mixture was originally used in France in the 1860s to control grape diseases. |
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| The Cognac maintains a natural grape oiliness that can remove the fishy smell in the soup. |
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| In Australia as elsewhere in the world, Chardonnay is seen as the grape of today and of tomorrow. |
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| Filled cabbage and grape leaves as well as soups such as zama and the Russian borsch also form part of daily meals. |
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| This technique requires, ideally, unpressed skins used for Amarone, or at least some partially dried grape skins. |
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| Crocus, grape hyacinths and narcissi are particularly suitable for larger grassy areas such as medians, slopes and the areas in front of shrubs. |
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| A unique combination of apple, grape and naseberry fruit pulp infuse natural fruit acids into the skin. |
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| In the United Stares, some of the 2002 grape crop was not harvested because of low prices. |
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| Lighting a mentholated cigarette, I strolled by sea grape hedges and through a moongate to a limestone cliff dropping to the Atlantic. |
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| The rich ethnic mix of grape-growers in Ontario is reflected in an unusually broad range of grape varieties, including Pinot Grigio. |
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| The Pinot Grigio varietal is enjoying a vogue in California, although it is the standard white wine grape of Italy. |
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| Even grape juice and fresh and dried grapes are prohibited to the Nazarite! |
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| In producing single vineyard bottlings of the same grape variety, Nebbiolo, he immediately emphasised terroir and native expression. |
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| Cultivated grapes cannot be grown profitably without the use of fungicides to control grape powdery mildew. |
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| The zoospores are disseminated by rain splash to grape tissues where they swim to the vicinity of stomata and encyst. |
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| It was Riddoch who planted the first grape vines and helped to diversify the pastoral economy of the area with an agricultural industry. |
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| For example we have the sowse vendors, and the women who make sea grape jelly for sale, but this is all on the level of cottage industry. |
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| Most of the vines are white grape varieties thought to be likely to fare better in the Scarborough climate. |
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| The plate never feels right to me without a broad, sturdy biscuit to smear with grape jelly, a secret vice of mine dating from childhood. |
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| The decline of grape vineyards depends on the age of the grape vines and on the variety planted. |
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| Experimentation has led to more good sites for growing Viognier and now this grape is enjoying higher production worldwide. |
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| Catfish anglers are doing well in 15 feet of water with sliced hot dogs and chicken soaked overnight in grape Kool-Aid. |
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| The most common canon was called the Napoleon and used both grape shot and canister ammunition. |
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| This spicy organic example is true to type, with summery, grape and orange peel aromas and zesty, crisp acidity. |
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| Rather, cabbage palms, grape vines, and exotic grasses such as guineagrass often dominate. |
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| They cover all the main grape varieties, including Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. |
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| And the dolmas, in which astringently green-tasting grape leaves clasp tartly seasoned rice, are so good I could happily eat a dozen of them. |
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| Skins constitute between five and 12 per cent by weight of a mature grape berry, depending on the vine variety. |
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| When we got her stern to us we raked her hotly with plenty of grape and canister. |
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| I strolled by sea grape hedges and through a gate to a limestone cliff dropping to the Atlantic. |
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| Historically grape juice was preserved simply by adding offensively high doses of sulphur dioxide. |
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| Botrytis bunch rot is especially severe in grape cultivars with tight, closely packed clusters of fruit. |
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| The grape spirit market was in decline, too, so the EC wine lake was overflowing. |
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| This is a grape variety which has excellent resistance to disease and rot, but which makes Cabernet Sauvignon look rather mellow. |
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| Depending on the style of the wine, sherry is fortified with grape spirit known as aguardiente to between 15.5 and 22 per cent. |
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| A grape vine needs five years to come into commercial production, so leasing is not a practical option. |
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| Take a seedless green grape and cut it almost in half, leaving the halves connected by a bit of skin. |
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| Investigation of agrobiological and technological properties of new French table vine species of vine grape. |
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| This is the great grape of Chianti, with flavors reminiscent of dried leaves, tea, even citrus. |
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| Shrubs and the grape arbor, supported on stone columns, give the outdoor room further definition. |
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| Weird is not necessarily bad, especially when a wine is a melange of grape varietals. |
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| This splendidly frisky Italian white wine from Piedmont is made from the Cortese grape. |
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| The grape joins a series of top-quality red, white and black seedless grapes developed by this expert team. |
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| I had never seen it here, but an essential ingredient of the Passover Seder is four cups of wine or at least grape juice. |
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| Instead we arrange the platters of food and remove bread from the oven and fill cups with grape juice and wine. |
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| Chile is a surprising source for this grape, but if this example is anything to go by, the future is bright. |
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| A recent entry sang the praises of Tomme Affinee au Marc de Raisin, a cow's milk cheese that has been aged under a thick blanket of grape marc. |
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| The flavonoids can be found in bilberry, hawthorn, grape seed, and green tea, and in many fruits and vegetables. |
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| Australia produces many types of red wine, but Shiraz is the most visible and widely planted red grape. |
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| The grape which we and the French call Syrah is exactly the same grape as the renowned Australian Shiraz. |
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| For long Australia's premier red wine grape in terms of area planted, Shiraz is at long last respectable too. |
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| Many Arab dishes, like stuffed zucchini or green peppers and stuffed grape or cabbage leaves, are highly labor-intensive. |
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| I am still yet to be convinced that Argentinian Malbec is one of the great wines of the world, or the Malbec is a truly noble grape variety. |
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| The flavours available are mint, strawberry, apple, grape and believe it or not, cappuccino too. |
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| The real New Zealand wine story this year, however, will be the current arrivals from the second of the two grape towers, Pinot Noir. |
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| Red grape varieties dominate the region, but Malbec is the most widely planted and Argentina's finest grape varietal. |
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| The brain benefits of grape juice stem from its flavonoids, natural plant chemicals that act as antioxidants. |
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| And following Christ's lead at the Last Supper, it is not just grape juice, but wine that we consecrate when we come together for Mass. |
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| Look for a tea that contains herbs like cascara sagrada, Oregon grape, and senna. |
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| The historic Mission grape, whose ancestors were planted by the early Spanish settlers, has all but disappeared. |
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| A grape glut caused by overplanting in headier times is raising inventories and igniting price wars. |
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| But Methodist rules forbid the use of fermented grape juice while Anglican church law requires the use of fermented wine. |
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| While perusing the menu, Ritchie offered us an Elvis drink, a vodka and grape drink shooter. |
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| The sucrose is transferred in the plant sap from the leaf to the grape berry. |
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| Of all the red grape varieties, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Zinfandel are the most recognized. |
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| Some examples of these include cottonseed, buckwheat, corncobs, grape pomace, pine straw, and pecan, walnut, and rice hulls. |
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| It also does well with most of the other familiar grape varieties, including Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Chardonnay, and Riesling. |
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| Pinot Noir is the most planted red grape variety with Cabernet Sauvignon second. |
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| It lacks the aromatic qualities of other Alsatian grape varieties and may not be used for the production of Grand Cru or late harvest wines. |
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| The box contains all the ingredients, like the grape juice concentrate, yeast, and stabilizing agents. |
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| The verdelho grape produces some ordinary table wines in Madeira, but not so here. |
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| They bring steaming trays of potato kugel and berry cobbler, bottles of grape juice and sweet wine. |
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| There were plush fleece coats, including one in soda-pop grape, and cute leather tams crudely stitched with black yarn. |
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| Fermentation The conversion of sugar in grape juice into ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide. |
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| The south coast of the Ukraine, including Crimea, was a developed centre of grape culture in ancient times. |
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| Do not confuse the fox grape vine with Canada Moonseed, which is considered toxic. |
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| The wild purple or fox grape is the ancestor of the Concord grape, developed at Concord, Massachusetts. |
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| One recipe gave relative proportions of grape juice, apple juice, cider vinegar and Certo. |
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| A girl, fully veiled under dark red chiffon, made chapatis over an open fire under a grape vine. |
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| Food pairings generally relate to the cuisine of Beaujolais, France where both the Gamay grape and the bistro originated. |
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| The Gamay grape variety makes its best wines in the Beaujolais region of France. |
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| The grape ripens late, providing a richness of flavour not found in either Gamay or Pinot Noir. |
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| Here, Gamay Noir, the grape of Beaujolais, produces a delicious wine bursting with crushed red-berry characters. |
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| I buy peppermint tea, red grape juice in a wine-coloured matt package with six languages on it, pear juice and packets of almonds. |
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| Blended with international grape varieties including Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, Vega Sicilia is aged for a decade or more in oak. |
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| In the past few years, so thoroughly has the Shiraz grape been re-established, that Shiraz wine has become a national icon in Australia. |
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| Cheaper than champagne but arguably tastier, Prosecco is an Italian sparkling wine produced from a young grape. |
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| Then, when this highly coloured infant wine is still only half fermented, it is poured into a large vat of cool brandy or grape spirit. |
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| To begin to understand how any wine is made we must first look at the composition of the grape. |
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| Another curious difference is that tartrate levels are very high in grape flowers. |
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| Merlot is one grape that produces dramatically different bouquets, depending on the geographic location and quality of the terroir. |
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| But after the vines bloom, he notes, table grape growers would have to switch to insecticides. |
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| It was through that and visiting vineyards while travelling with her husband that their love of the grape grew. |
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| He did a brief stint in the insurance industry, but his love of the grape soon led him to the wine business. |
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| Nothing boosts your spirits in early spring like the first daffodils, tulips or grape hyacinths poking through the ground. |
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| There was a white tablecloth, and a bowl of grape hyacinths, and a bottle of Gewurztraminer. |
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| With growth in grape production outpacing wine sales, farmers now face a glut of grapes, particularly red varieties, according to analysts. |
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| In April I spy the bright blue of the grape hyacinth, Muscari aucheri, the sun-lover that looks best in a clump, its blooms like fairy fruits. |
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| A lot of our spring flowers are blue and include grape hyacinth, anemone blanda and forget-me-not which, once planted, is with you forever. |
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| Layer two different species, such as tulips and grape hyacinths, in the same bed for exciting color combinations. |
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| The color of grape hyacinths is lovely next to yellow-flowering perennial plants such as Doronicum orientale. |
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| These concentrates contain all the natural grape sugar needed to produce a normal table wine. |
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| If you timed it right you could spend a good part of the day out of the sun with cool pulpy grape flesh oozing between your toes. |
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| He planted a small vineyard of the Catawba's and began producing fresh grape juice. |
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| Among the Hittites, the Anatolian civilization in western Turkey in the second millennium bc, a grape harvesting festival took place every year. |
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| Brandy is the umbrella term for a spirit produced from grape pomace or marc, or from wine or fruit. |
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| Catawba, a centuries old grape variety, bursts with a bold grape taste and pink color making it an award winning grape. |
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| I love the tiny tete a tete daffodils and spring squills, grape hyacinths and species Irises, but so does Puppy. |
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| Recently this company has experimented with more suitable wine grape varieties for both red and white table wines. |
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| Producers have reduced yields and controlled fermentation temperatures in an attempt to capture the distinct aroma of the grape. |
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| Of all sugary plant produce, none yields a commodity as highly valued or widely grown as grape wine. |
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| Jane fiddled with the plastic covering her sandwich and took a sip from her grape juice box. |
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| English vineyard owners are forecasting a bumper grape crop under this summer's Mediterranean type sunshine. |
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| As it is, the Cabernet Franc grape is often seen as a poor relation of Cabernet Sauvignon, the Bordeaux king. |
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| Because red wines are fermented with the grape skins, tannin levels are far higher in red wines than in white wines. |
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| Even if this had been grape juice, it would soon turn to wine because the fermentation process would immediately begin. |
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| Of course, classification, region, and variety of grape are all weighty influences. |
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| His back garden on a hot day could well be in a suburb of Ho Chi Minh City, with its bamboo, lychee, grape vines and images of monkeys. |
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| Some large wineries, for example, contract with hundreds of grape growers. |
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| Malbec is a blending grape in France and Australia, and is particularly blended with Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Cabernet Franc in Bordeaux or Bordeaux blend wines. |
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| For any existing and potential grape grower, vineyard site selection, or choosing the best terroir, is the single most important decision to be made. |
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| They have supplied grapes to numerous other wineries within the state and been major suppliers of muscadines to area grocery stores for the fresh grape market. |
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| One such grape variety is muscat, which with typical Mediterranean ardour makes up a large, colourful, diverse family that has the capacity to make all sorts of wines. |
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| Once only known for being a major constituent in Marsala, the Grillo grape has been radically transformed into a character-laden, cleansing white that has flavour to boot. |
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| They have experimented with all the techniques of modern winemaking in terms of time of grape picking, fermentation times and temperatures, and maturation. |
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| I was of a colour between grape and strawberry, with a long full skirt falling to the floor and an over skirt that added some volume and made my waist look smaller. |
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| It was bred as recently as 1852 in the Loire, probably as a table grape from Chasselas and the distinctly ordinary Muscat de Saumur, according to Galet. |
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| Its fresh, sparkling flavour is distinguished by a unique blend of excellent wines from classic grape varieties such as Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Chenin. |
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| What better grape to start with than chardonnay, the grape that fuels the Labour Party, the unofficial center of the chardonnay socialist movement. |
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| Like these two principal grape acids, pure succinic acid is a white crystalline solid that is very soluble in water and alcoholic water solutions such as wine. |
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| Yet the wily Pinot Noir grape is best suited to cooler, less sunny climes. |
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| Directly beneath the hanging basket is a large, frost-proof terracotta pot permanently planted with hostas, spring bulbs such as miniature daffodils and grape hyacinth. |
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| In early October, once she's potted up her crocuses, grape hyacinths, tulips and daffodils, she waters them, then tags them with the plant names and the dates. |
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| After some heavy rains last spring, my grape hyacinth bulbs, which have been in the ground for a number of years, started popping out of the ground. |
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| Kruse-Elliott's collaborator, Jess Reed has been working with other foods such as pomegranates and grape seed extract, as well as whole cranberries. |
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| La Route, marked by grape symbols on the map, lay there to be tamed. |
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| As the Romans made their way north, grape growing spread across Europe, and by 300 A.D., the use of fermented and unfermented juice in recipes was a common practice. |
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| Pinot Grigio is a grape that often disappoints in the bottle, but this wine from the coolest climate in New Zealand's South Island is bright and harmonious. |
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| Crostini with arugula, prosciutto, and grape tomatoes tossed with vinaigrette and topped with smoked mozzarella doesn't sound like anything spesh. |
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| She also warned vine growers that certain grape varieties may also freeze. |
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| Over the millennia during which man has selected grape vines, he has chosen those capable of photosynthesizing an excess of sugars and storing them in berries. |
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| Pine nut-spiked dolmades, the stuffed grape leaves, a walnutty red-pepper relish called ezme and a fine version of tabouli all are worth ordering. |
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| In the 19th century, the temperance and sanitation movements led many Protestants to replace wine and chalice with individual communion cups and grape juice. |
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| I sit between a fig tree, two hazel nut trees and a grape vine. |
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| Challenging grape varieties like Pinot Noir are improving with every year. |
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| Sometimes, time chews up your memories and spits them out like grape pips. |
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| The best white port from Malvasia grape is a light, stunningly dry and nutty drink similar to fino sherry and best served chilled from the fridge. |
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| There might have been dark clouds overhead but on the ground the magnificent colours of the hundreds of daffodils, grape hyacinths and polyanthus helped to dispel the gloom. |
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| It was the grape of choice to slake the thirst of forty-niners. |
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| Le Terroir, the all-important combination of climate, soil, and grape variety that are fundamental to the creation of champagne, is considered unique. |
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| The wines of some small producers have demonstrated that the Garganega grape can yield wines of real character with a pungency that marries well with wood ageing. |
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| Selina's eyebrow rose as she popped a green grape into her mouth. |
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| The grape hyacinths are emerging, the tulips I thought I killed last year are shooting through the soil, and an iris I was sure was a goner has some fresh sprouts. |
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| Because the grapes must be left on the vines until the very last moment to obtain the maximum grape sugar, the risk of losing a crop is very high. |
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| Incredibly sweet and sirupy, with a strong grape taste, saba can be diluted in water or wine to make an excellent drink, or poured on ice-cream or fruit for dessert. |
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| Borek, which is a pastry roll filled with cheese or ground meat, and dolma, made from stuffed grape leaves, green pepper or eggplant are most often served prior to the meal. |
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| Somewhere over the last few days I also bought a few more plum trees, a cherry tree, a green grape vine and a concord grape vine, which I'll plant this weekend. |
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| The domesticated grapevine provides fresh fruit, dried raisins, sultanas and currants, wine, vinegar, grape juice, and a light salad oil obtained by crushing the pips. |
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| The knits were heavy, the grape prints looked like table linens, and the long skirts with the high waist were frumpy. |
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| Place three scoops of concord grape sorbet in the center of the dish. |
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| A special niche in New York is the production of sweet kosher wine from the Concord grape, as well as dry kosher table wines from other grape varieties. |
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| So, with some minor exceptions, all the wines of Burgundy are produced either from the Chardonnay grape for white wines, or the Pinot Noir for reds. |
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| But salvation is now at hand for lovers of the noble grape who previously had no option but to pour away their expensive and lovingly laid-down bottles. |
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| Perhaps a Virgin Mary, or some sparkling grape juice would be in order. |
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| More than twenty-two grape varieties flourish including Mission, Syrah, Petit Syrah, Alicante Bouchet and Zinfandel. |
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| Romantic images and bucolic country scenes of happy grape pickers, hillside vineyards, and dusty bottles in old cellars are featured in all the brochures. |
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| On it are balanced a plate of eggs and toast, an open quart jar of grape jelly, and a beer mug full to the brim with orange juice. |
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| The visionary behind it, Nicholas Longworth was convinced Catawba would become the greatest grape in America, possibly the world. |
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| Mrs Von Trapp had the chicken liver parfait with green grape jelly. |
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| Many people believe that this must be a local variety, for it certainly tastes nothing like the Torrontes grape from the Galicia region of north-west Spain. |
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| Folklore claims that foxes were attracted to this species of grape, hence the scientific name Vitis vulpina and the common names fox grape and vixen grape. |
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| As well as the old favourites, try bluebells, snowflakes, grape hyacinths, lily of the valley, fritillaries, alliums, lilies of every kind and colour. |
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| He claims that south-facing peaks in the Derbyshire Peak District, which has the same geology as Greece, will become warm enough to support grape growth within 50 years. |
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| Lack of snow last winter, almost no rain in spring or summer and searing temperatures for prolonged periods have had a major impact on the grape harvest. |
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| Well, Johnny saw Sue, too, turned his head, went for a grape at the same time, and fell right off his chair. |
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| Walking the region's historic paths and forest tracks, you will come across vignerons so proud of their produce that they'll insist you sample each grape variety. |
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| In the case of yeast's metabolic activity in six-carbon sugar solutions such as grape juice, the three main by-products are water, ethanol, and carbon dioxide. |
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| The film is full of sun-drenched vineyards and the glories of the grape. |
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| Drink plenty of fruit juices, like orange juice and grape juice. |
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| These still let you drill down to see a single eye in a portrait or a grape in a still life. |
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| The founder of perhaps Scotland's only quality independent wine merchant is expanding the business and needs people with a passion for the grape and the grain. |
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| These three grape varieties produce red wines which go lighter with age. |
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| The principal grape used in the red wines of this region is Syrah. |
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| Penedes in the north east led the planting of French grape varieties and now makes dry white wine and well-flavoured reds with these and traditional grapes. |
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| Certain words are commonly associated with certain grape varieties, such as cassis and Cabernet Sauvignon, gooseberries and Sauvignon Blanc, or butter and Chardonnay. |
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| It saved the Zinfandel grape variety, which makes an outstanding red. |
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| The mainly American Zinfandel grape comes in many styles but few meatier than this classic from California's Sonoma region and winemaker Joel Peterson. |
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| Last December, researchers at the University of California at Davis determined that Zinfandel is the same as the Croatian grape Crljenak kastelanski. |
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| Since then I've been temping, taken part in the grape harvesting in Champagne, done voluntary work in Namibia, and I'm currently working as a waiter in Switzerland. |
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| The 2001 El Coto Rioja was made with the traditional Tempranillo grape. |
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| In both places, wines are made mainly from the red grape Tempranillo. |
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| Grasping vines, like grape, climb by grasping their support with tendrils. |
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| The Riesling grape performs well in southern Australia, and this delivers typical notes of limes, peels and petroleum oils, threaded with mouthwatering acidity. |
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| It produced a large number of fine specimens of grape ore and kidney ore. |
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| While still cold, it was bearable, tasting like a sparkling grape juice. |
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| In its simplest form, grape sampling might consist of selecting some berries haphazardly from the vineyard and expressing juice into a refractometer to measure sugar content. |
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| Good, young red Rioja like this, made exclusively from the Tempranillo grape, can and does deliver a joyous light, zesty, plummy, intriguingly chocolatey mouthful. |
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| It is a very rich, plummy, spicy grape which lends softness to the sometimes rather serious Cabernet with plums, roses, spice, fruitcake, blackcurrant, pencil shavings. |
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| This gorgeous white blends Argentina's own lime blossom-scented torrontes grape with appley chardonnay, delivering aniseedy flavours with grapey fruit. |
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| Our Kiddush prayers were done with gefilte fish and grape juice instead of wine. |
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| At Zhoushan the naval commander, in his barrage covering the landing, used round shot instead of grape or canister, in order to minimize Chinese casualties. |
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| In plain gleek, his career was about to get hit with the force of a thousand grape slushies. |
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| In the mid 1990s desultory attempts were being made to revive this last variety, in the belief that it will add aromatic interest when blended with the Barbera grape. |
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| It is a component of the dry white graves and the sweet sauternes of the Bordeaux region as well as being the grape of Sancerre and Pouilly in the Upper Loire Valley. |
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| In 1949 the wineries were expanded by the government, who, for reasons of economy, blended grape wine with water, fermented cereals, and colouring. |
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| At its best, Argentina's adopted white grape makes fragrant, heady wines. |
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| Wheat farmers, grape growers, hawkers, wattle growers, charcoal burners, timber cutters and teamsters all needed good roads for their businesses to operate successfully. |
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| They come in all sorts of flavours, including apple, honey, mint, grape, melon, pistachio, black licorice, cappuccino and fakhfakhina, a mix of exotic fruit and whipped cream. |
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| You need to plant plenty of bulbs as grape hyacinths are small plants, so the more you plant the more of an effect you will have. |
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| Thymiatis's research project entailed developing a process to valorize grape pomace, the main solid waste of the wine-making industry. |
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| Locating the sources of an invasive pest, grape phylloxera, using a mitochondrial DNA gene genealogy. |
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| The soils are gravely loams too shallow for grape production, and have low available water capacity. |
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| In the morning, Poe drinks one liter of water and two liters of grape juice. |
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| This barbera grape, one of the predominant varieties in Italy's northwest Piemonte region, is grown in the town of Alba. |
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| It's the critical time when the fruits of the labour turns into wine as the must ferment the grape sugar into alcohol. |
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| One of them, the alcohol-free Key Lime Rickey, uses fresh-squeezed lime juice and club soda combined with Navarro's Gewurtztraminer grape juice. |
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| It was a delicious serving of warm grape leaves filled with seasoned ground beef and rice with avgolemono sauce, a lemony egg sauce. |
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| European vineyards were planted with a wide variety of the Vitis vinifera grape. |
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| To the south, the vinegrower demands a wider portfolio and, in fact, some 13 grape varieties are permitted for Chateauneuf-du-Pape alone. |
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