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Honey
Posted on March 20, 2010 | No CommentsHoney, a pure sugar, energizes the body and satisfies the desire for sweet tastes shared byhumans and other primates. Europeans and Americans prized it as a table sweetener; inAsia, it was traditionally valuable as a medicine; and in Africa, it was the basis for analcoholic... -
RECENT CHAMPAGNE VINTAGES
Posted on February 28, 2010 | No Comments2007 Thanks to the pan-European heat-wave,this was the earliest Champagne harvest sinceat least 1822 and, with 50 percent of thepotential crop destroyed by spring frosts, itwas also the smallest harvest since 1981. Thesecond crop from buds that developed afterthe frost was substantial and this bouvreu... -
Colombard
Posted on February 26, 2010 | No CommentsIn France, Colombard is regarded onlyas an accessory variety for white tablewine.The fruit will remain on the vine ingood condition after it is ripe and retain agood acidity, but if left too long may givean unpleasant character to the wine. Itproduces a brandy of high... -
Wines from Bulgaria
Posted on February 24, 2010 | No CommentsOnce the most dependable wine-producing state in Eastern Europe, Bulgaria was fashionable in the West for its cheap Cabernet Sauvignon as early as 1975, but by the mid-1990s, this country was no longer a consistent source of reliable quality. The privatization of the industry has... -
Wines made from Nebbiolo
Posted on February 21, 2010 | No CommentsWines made from Nebbiolo in themost favourable situations in Piedmontare high in alcohol, acid and tannin, andare traditionally aged for several years inlarge oak casks.This is followed by furtheryears of bottle-ageing to develop intenseflavours of roses, raspberries and violets.Less-favourable sites can produce softerwines with lower... -
TORO DO / Castilla-León
Posted on February 18, 2010 | No CommentsThe exciting quality of Toro wines today is a very recent phenomenon, built on a sudden influx of high-profile names, which has tripled the number of bodegas since 2000. When this DO was established in 1987, there were just four bodegas, the decrepit local cooperative... -
Riesling
Posted on February 16, 2010 | No CommentsRiesling has a definite but notoverpowering elegant floral varietalcharacter, which is at its best in coolclimates. It can show up well in dry orslightly sweet white wines made fromsound grapes, in luscious sweet winesmade from grapes affected by noble rotor from the concentrated juice separatedfrom... -
Wines from Rubired
Posted on February 13, 2010 | No CommentsWines from Rubired are opaque with avery intense deep-red colour.They havean unusual aroma, which is often found inwines made from varieties with red juice,but are neutral enough to be blended insmall quantities to improve the colour ofwines deficient in this respect. Bothvarieties were originally released... -
Cantonese dishes and specialties
Posted on February 10, 2010 | No CommentsThere are very few totally Cantonese-inspired dishes in the Macanese cuisine. Tacho – a winter casserole of beef, pork, chicken and Chinese sausage is perhaps the most Cantonese of all Macanese dishes. As expected, bacalhau dishes feature prominently. There are Bacalhau Guisado (Salted Cod Stew),... -
Tea
Posted on January 12, 2010 | No CommentsWhether cool, sun-dried tsing tcha (green tea), fragrant jasmine, or full-bodied,artificially dried red, tea sip-ping is a universal pleasure. Tea originated in China as aliquid offering to family elders and ancestral gods. Legend says that drinking tea as abeverage began around 2700 BCE when camellia...