Mouthfeel

The tactile impression of a wine in your mouth. Like clothing, wine can feel soft, rough, velvety, and so on.

The Sonoma wine region is known as the “Valley of the Sun.”

Answer: False.

Sonoma is also sometimes known as the “Valley of the Moon.” Before the Spanish missionaries arrived in the early nineteenth century, Native Americans had lived in the Sonoma Valley for over 12,000 years. Legend has it that Sonoma derives from an indigenous word meaning “many moons.” Sometime in the 1840s, General Mariano G. Vallejo, who was the Mexican commander in the area, translated the term from a local Native American tribe, believing it to roughly translate to “valley of the moon.” The name stuck.

“Water is necessary to live, but wine expresses the abundance of the feast and the joy of the celebration.”

—Pope Francis
in his weekly public address in St. Peter’s Square (6/8/2016), on why weddings should include wine.

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