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Number of used wine barrels donated by HALL Wines to the businesses and residents of St. Helena in the Napa Valley. For the second year in a row, the barrels will be decorated as Easter eggs and displayed around the community to celebrate the holiday. In this season, HALL gives its famous Bunny Foo Foo sculpture an Easter basket to carry. Bunny, a work by Lawrence Argent, is thirty-five feet tall and made of polished stainless steel.

Virtually all of South Africa’s wine regions are located in a fan spreading out from this city:

A. Pretoria

B. Johannesburg

C. Cape Town

D. Lusaka

South Africa has six large wine zones—referred to as geographical units. Of these, only one is important for fine wine: the Western Cape, located in the most southwesterly part of the continent. The Western Cape is divided into five regions: the Coastal Region, Cape South Coast, Breede River Valley, Klein Karoo, and Olifants River. Spreading out like a fan from the charming city of Cape Town, the Coastal Region includes the fine wine districts of Swartland (Dutch for “black land,” a reference to the local plant known as rhinoceros bush which turns black after it rains), Paarl, Franschhoek Valley, Stellenbosch, and Constantia (the latter is technically a ward within the Cape Town District). Here, there are no African savannahs. The climate is largely Mediterranean, with a beautiful growing season free of frost and rain.

Tribology…Who Knew?

Despite its importance, the texture or mouthfeel of wine is one of the least studied aspects of sensory perception. At least until now. As reported in Wines & Vines, researchers at U.C. Davis are currently… Continue reading

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