2008 Festival Videos & Photos
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ZAP's Educational Programs
Discover how ZAP is preserving the history of Zinfandel through the Heritage Vineyard Project, directed by UC Davis
ZAP is inviting its members to become collaborators in its historic Zinfandel Heritage Research and Winemaking Project. To email a request for more
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Enjoying Viognier is a unique website dedicated to just one grape variety and to all those who enjoy the wines produced from it. We want to increase your enjoyment by helping you to discover new and different Viogniers from around the world.
Welcome to 'Enjoying Viognier' , a unique website dedicated to just one grape variety and to all those who enjoy the wines produced from it. We want to increase your enjoyment by helping you to discover new and different Viogniers from around the world.
Viognier - the fast rising star
Viognier is fast growing in popularity - the choice of drinkers and growers alike. The last ten years has seen a massive increase in Viognier production throughout the world and more recently we have begun to see
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An adaptation of Information
website adaptation by Philip Stewart
This publication is based on the New York Food and Life Sciences Bulletin
No. 80, July 1979, "Grape Varieties for New York State". The authors are
indebted to their predecessors, Dr. John Einset (deceased), John Watson
(deceased), Dr. Willard Robinson and Keith Kimball, who developed the
earlier bulletin and generated much of the information contained therein.
Gary Howard's expertise was invaluable to the Cornell
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one promoter of Zinfandels today. This group may have been
responsible to the sudden re-emergence in interest in these wines.
Lists pretty much every winery that makes Zin. Good newsletter.
that promotes the Zinfandels of Sonoma County. Includes
of award winning wines along with an excellent
selection of reviews. Recently updated this site has the best links
for Zin on the web. Highly recommended.
is the wine critic for the Philadelphi a
Sun and a Zin lover. He puts up this website of
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Advancing and promoting wine made from pinotage grapes.
A history interspersed with a series of coincidences.
Strong vines, moderate yields and vinified with grand intentions.
Berry fruit with a characteristic plummy, banana like aroma & flavour.
Recognising excellence and promoting the ongoing improvement of Pinotage.
Research keeps you in touch with the future.
2008 vintage and Pinotage are friends
At the 2008 Pinotage Vintage Tasting where pinotage wines from all over the Cape
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Industry organization dedicated to promoting the Petite Sirah grape. Includes a history of Petite Sirah, articles, a list of members, and recipes of suggested food pairings.
To promote, educate, and legitimize Petite
Sirah as a noble varietal, with a special
emphasis on its terroir uniqueness.
A Letter from the President
I may be committed to the vivacious and witty Zinfandel, but my dark little secret is that for the past twelve years I
have had a love affair going on with a sultry brunette bombshell known as Petite Sirah. (
Petite Sirah Noble Symposium
to download the Registration Form for the
Petite Sirah Noble Symposium at Foppiano Vineyards on Tuesday
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Index of wine grape varietals with grape varieties character as well as wine growing regions and appellations in North America.
This is the place to make lots of new friends... maybe even fall in love! The wine world is full of "varietal characters", each with a personality all its own. Of course they're not all aristocrats, or even the finest clonal selections, but altogether they're a very rich bunch..."rich" in the spice that keeps life interesting - VARIETY!
Varietal Character of the Week
You’re a modest boy from Tuscany, seeking fame and fortune. You shed your woven straw attire for more austere threads of
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The interdependent factors that affect
wine flavor are the variety or varieties of grape used, the location
where the grapes are grown (appellation), the treatment of those vineyards
and skills of the vineyardist and the equipment and techniques used
by the winemaker, as well as his skills in applying them.
Looking for a unique gift?
are a nice option if you want to send more than just wine.
Arguably, the type(s) of grape used
is the dominant factor in wine flavor. Take any World Famous
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Norton, America’s True Grape:
turns grape flowers to berries by pollination. Yeast turns its
berries to wine by fermentation.
Such transformations have captivated man since the dawn of time,
but perhaps wine holds its special prominence in the human experience
because in winemaking man and nature do not work at odds. They
conspire jointly. This led the great 19th century French gourmand
Brillat-Savarin to remark that the behavior differences worth noting
between humans and other
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