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In Reply to: RE: Off to Georgia posted by Bruce from DC on December 17, 2014 at 14:36:42
...glad to see you back.
A friend went to Georgia last year on his way to Turkmenistan where his son had served in the Peace Corps.
Said they were the first to make wine so you'll have to try some.
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Georgian wine is pretty available here in DC. It's not expensive and not bad. It is, however, on the sweetish side.
In the history of wine the preference for dry ones is a fairly recent fashion.
It started when the french banned the artificial adding of sugar to most wines.
Sales at first nose-dived but the french wine industry was saved by the beginning of WWI and the consequent dislike for german products (at that time even the british monarchy changed their name from Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor and German Shepherd Dogs became Alsatians).
The Germans had long banned the use of sugar and developed a system of ensuring the desired sweetness by carefully hand-selecting which grapes to harvest when.
That culminated in Eiswein whose grapes get exactly one night of frost. When harvesting these grapes look very much like raisins with all the natural sugar concentrated in a lot less juice resulting in a very sweet dessert wine after fermentation.
...here in CA I have trouble finding wine from Washington State.
Much less Georgia...
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