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Price (in U.S. dollars) of a case of “Drive-In” rosé that you can purchase while in your car during holidays this summer on Long Island. Wölffer Estate Vineyards recently introduced Rosé Drive Thru at the winery’s Sagaponack, Long Island, wine stand on Fridays and Saturdays. Drive Thru rosé will be sold exclusively by the case. The estate rosé goes for $195 per case; the “summer in a bottle” blend for more serious rosé lovers costs $260. The winery produces around 50,000 cases of rosé a year.

The sweet Sherry, Pedro Ximénez, gets its sweetness from the botrytized grapes used in making the wine.

Answer: False.

The Pedro Ximénez grapes used to make the sweet, ebony-colored Sherry, also known as Pedro Ximénez, achieve their concentration by being dried on straw mats in the intense Spanish sun for about a week, not by the beneficial fungus, botrytis cinerea. The mats are covered at night, so the grapes are spared from the morning dew. Once made and aged in a solera, the wine will be 40 to 50 percent residual sugar—that’s more than three times the sweetness of Bordeaux’s Sauternes. The result is an elixir that is so mesmerizing you just have to try it.

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The French verb used for rinsing one’s wine glass with the wine to come. Often this is done when switching between wines that vary significantly from each other—as when going from, say, an aromatic white… Continue reading

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