Quinta

Literally farm. In Portugal, the word quinta is used to refer both to a specific vineyard and to a wine estate. Quinta do Noval, for example, is the name of a highly regarded wine estate in the Douro region. Ports known as single vintage quinta Ports come from grapes grown on a single estate in a single year.

In making Champagne and sparkling wine, the dosage is the liquid added to the base wines early on so that a second bubble-causing fermentation will happen in each bottle.

Answer: False.

False. That liquid is a combination of wine, yeasts and sugar and is called the liqueur de tirage. The dosage is the small amount of wine and sugar added at the end of the sparkler’s production process. Depending on the extent of the sugar, the sparkler will either be Brut, Extra Dry, Demi Sec or so on.

Chernobyl Vodka—No Kidding

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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