Cape Riesling

July 5, 2020

A widely planted grape in South Africa, where it is used mostly in cheap blends. Not the same as true riesling, Cape riesling is thought to be related to the obscure French grape crouchen blanc.

Pinot noir takes its name from pine cones.

Answer: True.

The highly regarded French grape pinot noir (black pinot) takes its name from pin or pine, a reference to the fact that the small clusters of pinot noir grapes are shaped like pine cones.

In the please-tell-me-it’s-not-true department comes this: a new “artisan vodka” is being made in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s “Exclusion Zone,” according to The Smithsonian. The Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in the Ukraine exploded in 1986,… Continue reading

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