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Estimated cost (in U.S. dollars) for consultant research needed to help establish an AVA (American Viticultural Area). According to Wine-Searcher, it could take years for an AVA petition to come to fruition. As of December 2018, there were 242 AVAs in the U.S., 139 of which are in California.

The word “booze” comes from:

A. An old Dutch word meaning “to drink too much”

B. An Arabic word for the apparatus that was the predecessor of an alembic still used for distillation

C. A medieval French term derived from the word boire, meaning “to drink”

D. The Anglicized common name for a goatskin wine container used by the ancient Greeks

The word “booze,” once spelled “bouse,” comes from the medieval Dutch word büsen, meaning “to drink to excess.” Bouse dates back a thousand years to medieval English but was commonly used in the 16^th century by unsavory characters—mostly thieves—before becoming part of general slang.

Feinherb

An unofficial term used in Germany as a synonym for halbtrocken or half-dry wines—defined as wines containing less than 18 grams of residual sugar per liter, the equivalent of 1.8% residual sugar. Wines called feinherb… Continue reading

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