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...Workers in the Vineyard TIME's July 17 issue reported that wines are being put out by everyone from golf pros to porn stars. Long before the celebrity marketing trend, bottles bore the names of our Nov. 27, 1972, cover boys, Ernest and Julio Gallo, the post-Prohibition pioneers of the U.S. wine industry...
...Born near Modesto, the brothers grew up working the small vineyard owned by their father, an immigrant from Italy's northern Piedmont. 'We had a tractor in the barn, but we didn't have enough money to buy gas,' recalls Ernest. 'Instead, we used four mules and worked the vineyards seven days a week from daylight to dusk.' With the first stirrings of [Prohibition's] repeal, they dug up $5,900.23 in capital and set out to produce their own wine. They rented a railroad shed for $60 a month, bought a $2,000 grape crusher and redwood tanks...
...defoaming agents and other chemical additives--to influence the flavor and texture of their product, whether it be a $10 jug or a $100 bottle. Natural wines, on the other hand, are created by winemakers who take an artisanal approach to what they produce, basing their decisions in the vineyard and the winery on techniques that allow their wine to develop in the purest way possible. France--no surprise--has the greatest number of natural winemakers, but the trend is catching...
...next bottle was a Montalena again from the next year. It’s remarkable how different two wines from the same vineyard can be. This one was a veritable fruit festival with huge, open flavors for everyone at the table to savor. I preferred the ’92, but this was still a great, fun wine...
...vineyard tours are to France or brewery visits are to Germany, so whisky trails are to Scotland, connecting around 90 distilleries from the internationally famous to the delightfully obscure, and giving visitors a glimpse at centuries of whiskymaking history. Their growing popularity has prompted some Scottish distilleries to open slick tourist centers, complete with interactive exhibits and branded merchandise for sale - but it can be just as much[an error occurred while processing this directive] fun to turn up at a distillery where no concessions are made to visitors beyond an impromptu tour of the production facilities and a quick...