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Aug062015

Revolutionizing Dining Experience with Coravin

2015 08 06 Coravin

Normally, restaurants shy away from offering premium wines by-the-glass as the cost of waste is too high.

When a bottle of wine is opened, the restaurant has three days on average to sell the rest of the bottle before oxidation occurs and the wine becomes unpalatable.

With The Coravin Wine Access System, the Sommelier never has to pull the cork from the bottle. The Coravin Wine Access System is a proprietary system of Coravin Inc. that allows the wine to be poured from a bottle without ever pulling a cork, thus saving the wine from being exposed to oxygen and preventing the oxidation process from occurring.

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Jul082015

Uniting Art and Champagne

2015 07 08 Champagne Taittinger

Art is relevant to wine and that wine is a work of art. Grapes and wine have long inspired artistic creation.

A number of wine makers have become involved with art featured the works of modern artists reproduced on their labels. Although many wineries commission original art for their label design, only a few have a regular program with a different artist providing a design every year.

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May272015

Goodness Sake

2015 05 27 Sake

Sake is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice. Sometimes referred to as rice wine, sake is produced by a similar brewing process to that of beer’s.

Sake may sound like a simple product, rice, water and yeast, however the slightest change to the process can make a world of difference. The source of the rice is crucial to the consistency of the product. And variation in the koji production, or the temperature of the fermentation can also result in a drastically different profile. The process of making this delectable beverage is truly an art that has evolved over the centuries until today.

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May182015

Collection Bellenum BY NICOLAS POTEL

2015 05 18 Collection Bellenum

Along with Bordeaux and Champagne, Burgundy is one of the most well known vineyards in France. Nicolas Potel, son of one of Volnay’s finest winemakers, has spent 10 years tasting 2,500 Burgundies to put together his magnificent Collection Bellenum.

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Apr232015

L’Atelier Du Vin – the range of Luxury Wine Accessories..

2015 04 23 latelier 562x320

Wine is a living substance, complex and full of mystery.

It is one of the rare food substances that can be entirely produced by a single person (the vinegrower and winemaker), from its beginnings in the vineyard to its bottling.
It is a drink whose diverse colours, smells and flavours have no equivalent in terms of their range.
Finally it is, remarkably, one of those rare substances whose aromas and flavours can evoke the place an individual wine comes from.

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Mar252015

Penfolds – one of Australia’s oldest and most prestigious wineries..

2015 03 25 Penfolds

Penfolds is one of Australia’s oldest and most prestigious wineries and has an international reputation for producing wines of the highest quality. The historic Magill Estate Vineyard, originally known as the Grange Vineyard, was established in 1844 by Dr Christopher Rawson and Mary Penfold. This vineyard was first planted with grenache from cuttings taken from the South of France and has been the source of inspiration and fruit supply for Penfolds Grange in the later years, widely regarded as Australia’s greatest wine.

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