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CHATEAU DE CHAMBRUN LALANDE-DE-POMEROL AOC
Vintage: 2003
Producer: de Chambrun
Bottle size: 75 cl.
CHF 32.00
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reductive winemaking
Increasingly fashionable and aims at reducing the exposure of must and wine to oxygen in the winery by minimizing or eliminating practices such as racking, lees stirring, and the use of new oak barrels.
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veraison
Word used in viticulture for that intermediate stage of grape berry developement which marks the beginning of ripening
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Cabinet
Term of approbation applied to German wines from 18th century until 1971, when ist use was outlawed by the new German Wine Law.
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shoot positioning
Spring and summer time viticultural practice of placing vine shoots in the desierd position to assist in trimming, leaf removal, and harvest operations, and to facilitate the control of vine diseases and vine pests.
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bottle ageing
The process of deliberately maturing a wine after bottling, whether for a few weeks as a conscious effort on the part of the bottler to allow the wine to recover from bottle sickness or, in the case of very fine wines, for many years in order to allow the wine to mature.
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fermentation
As it appplies to wine, is the process of converting sugar to ethanol and carbon dioxide effected by the anaerobic metabolism of yeast.
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Rivesaltes
Town north of Perpignan in southern France that gives ist name to two of the biggest appellations of Roussillon, Rivesaltes and Muscat de Rivesaltes, both of them vins doux naturels.
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Bolgheri
Small town in the Tuscan Maremma made famous by Marchese Mario Incisa della Rocchetta, who planted Cabernet Sauvignon vines for a house wine a early as the 1949s an his San Guido estate, labelling the resulting wine Sassicaia.
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Melon
Or Melon de Bourgogne, the most planted grape variety in the Loire valley, planted on 10798ha/26671acres in 2011 and famous in only one respect and one region, Muscadet.
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verjus
Or verjuice, the tart, apple-flavoured juice of unripe grapes, has many variations and many culinary uses, especially in dressings and sauces.
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Montagne de Reims
The mountain of Reims, or the forested high ground between the Champagne towns of Reims and Épernay. Ist lower slopes are famed for the quality of Pinot Noir base wine they produce.
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Sauternes
The special distinction of this region embedded within the Graves distric south of Bordeaux is that it is dedicated, in a way unmatched by any other wine region, to the production of unfortified, sweet, white wine.
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Hesiod
(c. 700 BC), the earliest agricultural writer of Ancient Greece, wrote Works and Days. In it, he gives mostly simple advices for the winemaker/farmer.
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Grosses Gewächs
Is a prestige wine category devised by Germany's VDP and in use since 2002. The sites in question are typically Einzellagen.
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indigenous varieties
vine varieties that are intensely local to a particular area and have a relatively long tradition of being grown there.
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clos
Is French for enclosure, and any vineyard described as a Clos should be enclosed, generally by a wall.
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sommelier
Widely used French term for a specialist wine waiter or wine steward. The sommelier's job is to ensure that any wine ordered is served correctly and, ideally, to advise on the individual characteristics of every wine on the establishment's wine list and on food and wine matching.
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hybrids
In common viticultural terms, the offspring of two varieties of different species, as distinct from a cross between two varieties of the same species, which is also known as an intraspecific cross.
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Recioto
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Échezeaux
Grand Cru of the village of Flagey-Échezeaux in Burgundy's Côte de Nuits, producing red wines from Pinot Noir grapes.
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malic acid
One of the two principal organic acids of grapes and wines. Ist name comes from malum, Latin for apple, the fruit in which it was first identified. Present in nearly all fruits and berries.
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