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Refers to a wine with a level of ALCOHOL that is out of BALANCE with its ACID and FRUIT. The impression of excessive alcohol produces a slight burning “hit” at the top of the nasal passages and on the palate.

The highest vineyard in the world is in Argentina.

Answer: True.

Although wine is now made in the Himalayas in China and more vineyards there in the future could change this answer, currently, the highest vineyard in the world is in Argentina. Bodega Colomé at 10,200 feet in altitude (3,111 meters) is in the northern part of that country’s Calchaqui Valley. At that altitude, luminosity is intense and the grapes tend to develop thicker skins, although the direct impact on flavor is not known.

“To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.”

—Clifton Fadiman
American author and television personality (1904 – 1999)

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