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...confirmed this was his first time trying to make cider, though pressing and fermenting fruits is old hat to him. Last year, Max spent time in France and Italy during the grape harvest, stomping grapes to make wine. “I got interesting in pressing things, so my dad’s friend had an antique press he gave me, and we went out apple picking around Harvard, Mass.,” Morange says. Morange and his friends, fellow competitors Danny Koski-Karell and Eric Brown, pressed the fresh apples in the Kirkland courtyard, and then Morange...
...herbal brew, is made from the South African rooibos shrub. The reddish-brown tea has a full, strong taste and smells earthy, like grape stems or olives. It's the rare herbal tea that can take milk. It's also caffeine free, high in antioxidants and low in potentially kidney-damaging oxalic acid...
...about as popular as polo. Real men preferred an amber shot of Glen something. But Andrew's parents introduced him to French wine at age 10, and he tasted his first Chateau Margaux as a teenager, liking it so much, he wrote to the vineyard asking for a grape-picking job--which he landed. After a career that included a stint as an actor in TV ads, Andrew, 40, is now a celebrity in the wine trade: he is the top buyer for Costco...
...Moramarco has wine in his blood. His ancestors made wine for eight generations in southern Italy, and after his grandfather Giuseppe emigrated to the U.S., he bought a winery in Los Angeles from the Jesuits during Prohibition. Jon's father was an expert in vine management--the pruning, spacing, grape thinning and irrigating that influence the quality of the grapes and the taste of the wine. As a young boy, Jon cleared weeds between the vines. He later went to work at the Callaway winery as a "cellar rat," cleaning tanks, moving barrels, stacking bottles and sometimes working...
...offer better quality for the money and are easier to understand. Total wine exports from Australia jumped from $98.7 million in 1990 to $1.01 billion in 2001, powered by favorable exchange rates and strong brand marketing. Like U.S. winemakers, the Australians sell wines that are easily identifiable by the grape they are made from--Shiraz, Sauvignon Blanc--as opposed to the confusing geographical classifications of French wines. "Brands are the key," says David Scotland, president of Allied Domecq's wine division. "New technologies have improved winemaking...the consistency of style builds trust and thus brand equity." Consider Orlando Wyndham...