Consorzio

January 17, 2020

A consortium of producers of a certain wine, who join forces to control and promote it.

About 30% of the world’s oak is used to make wine barrels.

Answer: False.

Just 2% of the world's oak is suitable to be planed into staves that will ultimately be assembled to make wine barrels. Those staves will come from just the heart of the tree.

Scientists in Australia have invented a so-called “electronic tongue” that can analyze and measure compounds in a wine and then mathematically formulate a “fingerprint” of the wine. According to Dr. Xavier Ceto Alseda, a research… Continue reading

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