Sobretable

July 17, 2019

In Sherry production, the term for the period of time a new wine spends before it goes into the solera. The sobretable is usually 6 to 8 months, but ooccassionally up to a year.

The French spirit Calvados is, like Cognac and Armagnac, a distilled spirit made from grapes.

“I like my coffee black, my beer from Germany, wine from Burgundy, the darker, the better. I like my heroes complicated and brooding, James Dean in oiled leather, leaning on a motorcycle. You know the color.”

Barbara Crooker,

American poet, from the poem Ode to Chocolate

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