| The wine is then aged and the vintages blended following the same solera system used in Jerez for Sherry. |
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| In the solera system, wine from many vintages is matured in the cellars in separate casks. |
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| Bottles with paper labels printed with pre-1860 vintages are probably relabelled or were intended for non-British markets. |
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| So I happen to have several spinthariscopes of various vintages, of which this item is a poor imitation. |
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| Loire Cabernet Francs are at their best in hot vintages like 2003, when their potentially stalky flavours are transformed by sunshine. |
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| Somerfield's own-label red burgundy used to be horrid, but the past few vintages have been full of elegant, smoky, plummy fruit. |
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| This appellation is undergoing much-needed revival but old vintages suggest that the potential for long-lived, concentrated reds is there. |
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| In lesser vintages the grapes do not ripen as well as elsewhere but in warmer years the wines can be excellent value. |
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| Most shippers storing bottles upright recork their most venerable vintages, say, once every 20 years. |
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| Architects of Wine, which offers to choose fine vintages for rich investors, set up a Grand Cayman office to attract rich Americans. |
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| Among recent vintages, 2002 has been lauded as the best since 1985, offering relatively rich reds that can drink well now or be cellared. |
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| Future studies will focus on mixtures, different vintages of the same wine, and regional variations in varietal wines. |
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| Our climate isn't insuperable, but it makes winemaking difficult in most vintages. |
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| What if you where a winegrower in Barolo, but did not own one of the hotshot vineyards that would make the great wines in great vintages? |
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| In great vintages their wines are sublime and in lesser years forward and delicious. |
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| In many vintages hardly any Beerenauslese wine is produced anywhere in Germany. |
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| Every year you'll be presented with a seemingly endless stream of new wines, producers, appellations and vintages. |
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| However, in less than good vintages, Sauvignon Blanc from this area can be mean and lean. |
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| The waiter also serves as a wine steward, so passengers generally need to know what vintages they like or dislike. |
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| The term vertical refers to a number of successive vintages of the same wine. |
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| But during this long pupillage he had perennially returned to his family's estate to work the vintages, watch and learn. |
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| It is a blend of usually the three best recent vintages, from the best vineyards and the best grapes. |
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| They are all from the same producer, same grape, same region, but different vintages and vineyards. |
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| Every Italian fan drools over the quality of the Tuscan and Piedmontese 1997 and 1999 vintages. |
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| If wine was reasonably priced, inventory would move, and new vintages could be brought in. |
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| It's made from pre-phylloxera colombard grapes, not the ugni blanc grapes of modern vintages. |
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| He also evened out dodgy quality by blending wines grown in differing microclimates within Champagne and across both hot and cold vintages. |
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| Other categories of wines that are a mixture of different regions and vintages belong to the table-type wines. |
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| The French idea of a golf day is a gastronomic scramble with different vintages and bonnes bouches to offer at the back of every green. |
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| For two decades many classified growths produced wines that were mediocre at best, even in fine vintages. |
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| On the menu, in his company: a tasting of several of his vintages paired with assorted tidbits. |
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| Cases of fraud or counterfeited bottles are more likely linked to older vintages. |
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| For each edition, we wipe the slate clean and start again, tasting 36,000 new wines from the latest bottled vintages until only the best remain. |
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| These two wines may be the best one-two punch Alentejo produced in these two vintages. |
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| The thirties had been one of the worst decades on record for winemakers: poor vintages, unsalable wine, depressed market, lack of investment. |
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| How do you convince oenophiles that they are buying fine vintages for plonk prices? |
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| Only are bottled wines of the best vintages, from the best terroirs and the richest pickings. |
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| This, fused with Arielle and Jem's savoir-faire, help produce their elegant and complex vintages. |
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| We are thus able to mitigate the climatic imponderables that affect the characteristics of the various vintages. |
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| If two or more vintages of a specialty wine will be retailed at the same time but at different prices, a separate GTIN must be used. |
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| You will also visit a castle and its vineyards before tasting three vintages, and you will go back to the stud farm at the end of the afternoon. |
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| These cosseted vintages represent the quintessence of each of their respective domains. |
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| While rather dull in poorer years, Lynch-Bages really seems to be sublimated when all the right conditions are met in great vintages. |
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| Diners, suspended 50 meters above the Tuileries Gardens, enjoyed a menu created by top starred chefs, along with the best Mumm vintages. |
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| The American love for the Bundt cake is enshrined here, with row after row of tins of various vintages. |
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| Just as wine vintages vary, so the weather can affect the number of harvests a coca plant yields and the alkaloid content of the leaves. |
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| Add to the pleasure by discovering a large selection of vintages in the salon des vins. |
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| In fact, some international award winning vintages have been produced from some of our over 170 wineries from all provinces of Canada. |
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| It is made from the best vintages of chardonnay and pinot noir which give the wine a gentle and refined character. |
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| Some vintages will wait more than a year before being bottled and marketed. |
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| It brings together a valuable collection of the province's wines and a collection of old labels of the most acclaimed Málaga vintages. |
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| Replacement valuation means that all asset vintages are valued according to currently prevailing market prices of new assets. |
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| There's nothing more annoying than seeing dual vintages on a wine list. |
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| The owners of famous vineyards could sell their wines in the lesser vintages because of their fame, but you were stuck with wine you couldn't sell easily. |
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| Previous vintages of Katnook's Cabernet Sauvignon were equally successful. |
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| South Australia's Eden Valley is a top Aussie spot for Riesling and 2002 is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest Riesling vintages in years. |
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| Blending two consecutive vintages is another common, modern wine-producing practice for cheaper wines, to ensure that the switch from one to the other is not too sudden. |
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| Stay tuned for future information about our walkabout tastings, as more than 30 wineries from Ontario's distinctive wine regions uncork their finest VQA vintages. |
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| While CIBC remains cautious as older vintages of loans continue to mature, it is confident that the actions it is taking will achieve the desired results over time. |
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| Only the finest vintages and producers will clinch the deal. |
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| Old vintages that need to be decanted prior to tasting so as to limit the sediment resulting from the routine evolution that a wine undergoes as it matures are avoided, as they are incompatible with inflight conditions. |
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| At the end of the passage, a bronze night watchman greets and encourages guests to venture yet lower into the medieval wine cellars to where the vintages are carefully stored. |
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| In fact, British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, blessed with a Mediterranean microclimate, is home to some respectable vintages and southern Ontario, on the same latitude as France's Languedoc, produces passable plonk. |
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| Epicureanism, an integral part of the Rothschild lifestyle, is reflected in the beautiful wine list, which gives vintages from the Compagnie Vinicole Baron Edmond de Rothschild pride of place. |
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| What's more, she's bringing along several exceptional vintages that will serve as inspiration for what promises to be a tantalizing tasting menu by chef Marc-André Lavergne and sommeliers Philip Morisset and Liette Tremblay. |
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| The actual vintages of both lesser known wines and famous ones are unascertainable after the Primeur campaign finishes, even from looking at their market positions. |
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| Tetlow observes that the difference rule does lead to robust performance in the sense that a difference rule optimized for a particular vintage maintains good stabilization properties across all other vintages. |
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| Record levels of sunshine means the land of Liebfraumilch now produces Burgundy and Bordeaux-style vintages to rival the best in the world. |
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| The monks elaborate special vintages 1 or 2 times each century, no more. |
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| Spencer is a charming host and confirmed oenophile, whose estimated £500m fortune allows him to indulge in some of the finest vintages Bordeaux has to offer. |
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| Magali takes her time tasting all their vintages and selecting the wines that will appear on the wine list of the Oxalys, featuring 320 different wines. |
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| Not a blockbuster, it is more beefy and dense than other recent vintages, revealing notes of pine forest, smoke, herbs, licorice, black currants, and cedar. |
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| The Margaux and Lafite 1900 affair of rejuvenation with wines of much recent vintages confirms the necessity of the establishment of a strict legislation. |
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| This range, the richest in terms of quality and quantity, generally comprises older vintages, from domains, varietal selections, parcellar selections or having been aged in tuns or new oak. |
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| The new owner wants to increase exports to Asia and open a wine bar in Beijing before 2010 where the best Château Richelieu vintages will be savored by customers. |
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| The god Quetzalcoatl was far from imagining that by teaching men how to cultivate the cocoa tree, it would be spread worldwide, thus enabling the birth of vintages whose soil types are as famous as those of wines. |
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| For both the Merlot and the Cabernet Sauvignon, sugar, acidity and phenolic indicators of ripeness are at the same or higher levels than the great vintages of earlier years. |
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| Britain's winemakers are overcoming the impediment of small harvests which make technical experimentation commercially risky by sharing expertise and focusing on top-shelf vintages for the discerning buyer. |
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| Burgundy's 'holy of holies' where each year the equally famous sale takes place of the best vintages, whose prices then become the benchmark price for the entire wine profession. |
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| Likewise the great Champagne Krug Grande Cuvée, a blend of 120 wines made from three grape varieties grown in 25 villages from 10 or more vintages, is a symphonious joy. |
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| Norm Beal, chair of the Wine Council of Ontario says the warm summer is expected to produce one of the best vintages ever so it is critical to preserve as many grapes as possible for the high quality VQA wines. |
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| This means we have to work out demand at production time, so we don't run out of stock between two vintages or be overstocked with last year's wine that consumers have turned their backs on. |
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| It's a traditional village, one of the most beautiful villages in the Champagne region, nestling around its bell tower, wreathed in renowned vineyards because they're listed among the first Champagne vintages. |
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| You can indulge in dinner at Domus that serves Canadian cuisine using fresh, seasonal ingredients from local suppliers and only the best vintages from Ontario wineries. |
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| It is a blend of three distinct vintages crafted from the finest harvests by the signature father and son winemaking team, Jean Jacques and Alexandre Cattier. |
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| Rosemount Estate, the Prestige Wine of Australia, announces the release of the new vintages of its flagship red wines, Balmoral Syrah and Mountain Blue Shiraz Cabernet. |
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| Also, while wine shippers have developed a well-oiled network to move European vintages around the globe, trade with new markets is taxing weak logistical links. |
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