RE: Georgian wine

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RE: Georgian wine

Posted by b.l.zeebub (A) on December 18, 2014 at 06:26:35

In Reply to: RE: Georgian wine posted by Bruce from DC on December 17, 2014 at 14:50:20:

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.

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Topic - Off to Georgia - Bruce from DC 14:36:42 12/17/14 (13)

"Of course there were many Jews living in the Middle East" - b.l.zeebub 09:21:50 12/18/14 (2)

How ironic that the repression of one people has been occasioned by that of another. nt - tinear 13:37:53 12/18/14 (1)

RE: How ironic that the repression of one people has been occasioned by that of another. nt - b.l.zeebub 09:31:45 12/19/14 (0)

How refreshing... - SF tech 22:40:45 12/17/14 (0)

Hi Bruce, welcome back to IC and havea good trip. - Timbo in Oz 22:01:59 12/17/14 (0)

I wonder what you get for a dollar.... - Rod M 19:26:12 12/17/14 (0)

Take, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," by T. E. Lawrence for a read. - tinear 17:23:32 12/17/14 (0)

Georgia on my mind... - mkuller 14:45:39 12/17/14 (3)

RE: Georgian wine - Bruce from DC 14:50:20 12/17/14 (2)

RE: Georgian wine - b.l.zeebub 06:26:35 12/18/14 (0)

RE: Georgian wine - mkuller 15:19:03 12/17/14 (0)

Enjoy the trip! - -æ- 14:43:20 12/17/14 (1)

Thankee! (nt) - Bruce from DC 14:50:52 12/17/14 (0)

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