La Vieille Ferme 2010 Cotes du Ventoux Rouge - Special Price $8.29, Regular Price $10.00
This full-bodied and fruity wine comes from vines grown high on the slopes of Mont Ventoux, one of the best vineyards in the Rhone Valley.This blend of Grenache, Syrah, Carignan, and Cinsault grapes has produced a typical Rhone Valley style; full of fruit and spice aromas, it has soft tannins and good body.Serve at 62F to accompany most foods or to be drunk on its own, this is a delicious wine for easy drinking.
Finca Luzon 2009 Luzon - Our Price $8.79
Red purple with an intense violet rim. Clean, fragrant, fruity, intense smells of red and black fruits, powerful and very enjoyable. Big, smooth and warming, very fruity and well balanced acids. Mature tannins. Food Pairing: Roast sirloin steak, stewed meat, roast chicken, rice dishes, stews, vegetables and goat cured and semi cured cheese.
Mano a Mano 2007 La Mancha - Our Price $9.29
Dark cherry-red, with an intense purplish color round the edges. Aromas of ripe forest fruit, cocoa, violets and a balsamic flourish against a smoky background. Flavorsome, fresh, balanced and meaty, with good fruit on the palate. Forest fruits take the lead for the overture.
Bodegas Castano 2010 Monastrell - Our Price $9.29
This cuvée from Castaño is made from 100% Monastrell (Mourvèdre) from 30 year old vines. It is released young and is meant to be an easy drinking, everyday wine. It has a bright, fresh raspberry bouquet with dense, textured, cherry flavors on the palate. It is well structured with supple, integrated tannins. This wine is a great match to simple, bistro-style fare but has enough body to hold up to hearty dishes including beef, game, and strong cheeses.
Alto Almanzora 2008 Este - Our Price $10.29
From the ancient mountains of Andalucia - land that has been cultivated throughout history by Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans and Muslims - lies this categorically modern winery with state of the art facilities and stunning architecture. This mountainous area (the nearby Calar Alto observatory sits at 2,100 meters) enjoys more than 3,000 hours of sunshine per year, providing optimal ripening conditions during the day while a 20 degree drop at night grants the necessary acidity and balance. Este is represented by a pregnant mare - a symbol of fertility that has blessed the estate's fields for thousands of years. Consulting Winemaker Rafael Palacios' skillful hand working behind the scenes is abundantly clear - a stunning wine for an even more stunning price.
Falernia 2007 Syrah Reserva - Special Price $10.79, Regular Price $13.00
Very bright color; elegant nose with black pepper and floral notes. Medium-full bodied with very soft tannins and good balance. Great length and fruity after taste.
Perrin et Fils 2010 Reserve Cotes du Rhone Rouge - Special Price $10.79, Regular Price $18.00
A beautiful deep red hue that seems almost opaque. The nose shows caramel and spices that mingle with red berry fruit. The palate is full and deep, with fine tannins and good length.
Delas 2010 Cotes du Ventoux - Special Price $10.79, Regular Price $15.00
The color is a deep ruby red, showing garnet reflections while young. With its predominately berry-fruit bouquet, this wine shows the full aromatic power of these two fine grape varieties whilst retaining the freshness imparted by well-controlled winemaking.
Mano a Mano 2009 La Mancha - Our Price $10.79
A combination of altitude and soil helps to bring out the very best in this old vine Tempranillo, and creates a fruit forward wine with structure and earth notes. Dark cherry-red, with an intense purplish color round the edges. Aromas of ripe forest fruit, cocoa, violets and a balsamic flourish against a smoky background. Flavorsome, fresh, balanced and meaty, with good fruit on the palate. Forest fruits take the lead for the overture.
Tormaresca 2010 Chardonnay - Special Price $10.79, Regular Price $12.00
Pale lemon in color, this wine is fresh and flavorful with aromas of peach, white flowers and citrus, and with flavors of exotic fruit and sea-salt tinged minerality. This chardonnay has lively acidity and lingers on the palate.
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Wine Making: An Introduction to the Basic Processes
For beginners, a nice red table wine is the simplest type to make. White wines tend to oxidize or brown much more easily than red wines. Also, red wines are fermented from the entire grape, rather than just the juice, so the extra filtration process is unnecessary with red wines.
The following is a list of the main processes involved in wine making, though they are not necessarily performed in the following order:
- Stemming and Crushing- Stems are usually removed from the grapes in most wines, but not all. The skins of the grapes are then broken in order to free the grapes’ juices. The resulting mixture of pulp, grape skins, pulp, juice and perhaps pips (depending on the grapes) are called the ‘must’.
- Determining the acidity and sugar content- Grapes must be picked at the right time to have these figures work out depending on the type of wine you are making. While these can be figured purely scientifically, there is also the old fashioned way of tasting and smelling grapes to determine their sweetness and acidity for the purpose of wine making.
- Adding sulfur dioxide- this is added to prevent the growth of organisms that would spoil the wine. Sulfur dioxide also prevents oxidation.
- Pure wine yeast cultures facilitate consistent, clean and complete fermentation. Though must will begin to ferment on its own within twelve hours, wine yeast starter cultures ensure that fermentation ensues at a consistent pace.
- Pressing- With white wine the skins
and seeds are removed from the grape juice at the beginning of fermentation, while red wines are allowed to ferment for a while with the skins and pips left in the must.
- Fermentation is the process by which yeast is converted into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
- Adjusting sulfur dioxide content helps to prevent spoilage as well as oxidation.
- Racking- Clear wine is separated from the used yeast cells and other solids after fermentation has taken place.
- Aging, Topping and/ or Clarification
- Bottling
For the next degree of detailed information that describes these processes in detail, take a look at this wine making website: http://www.thewineman.com/wp_winemaking1.htm.
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