Earth Vine & Sun

18/02/2023

You get us, Wino-Licious :)

10/03/2022

-- and laughter WITH wine is like winning the lottery!

10/07/2021

Just saw this above a wine menu how quirky love it.

10/07/2021

Check out these few tips for and great wine to take on a date.

10/07/2021

Exotic Wine Travel amazing videos and insights into the world of wine please click like and follow and support. I endorse these guys doing great work.

13/02/2021

Blankets of snow turning the vineyards into Winter wonderlands ❄️

Hush Heath Estate

09/02/2021

03/02/2021

Memory from Experience Pommery #13 : gigantesque!
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Lilian Bourgeat
Unsold-Bottes, 2017
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Contemporary art exhibition in the heart of the caves de champagne Pommery.
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29/01/2021

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15/01/2021

Ermenegildo Giusti, founder and CEO of Giusti Wines, talks about sustainability, his new underground winery, hiring winemaker Graziana Grassini, reviving Recantina, using Slavonian oak and putting Veneto’s Montello hills on the wine tourism map…

15/01/2021

Piedmont isn't just Barolo and Barbaresco.

There are so many unique grapes like Freisa and Grignolino that make fantastic wines. Cantine Valpane makes wines from these two varieties and with bottle age, they can resemble Nebbiolo. Both of these wines are exceptional.

Stay tuned to our page for an upcoming article on these beauties. Have you tried these varieties before?

05/01/2021

27/12/2020

It’s important to stock up for the festive season of parties and dinners, but what can you do with the leftover wine? Sarah Jane Evans MW has the answer...

30/11/2020

History and Development of the Fine Wine Investment Market. cont....

For much of history, wine investment was the preserve of the European aristocracy, who had both the capital and space to bring wines to maturity. In recent decades, greater price transparency and the influence of wine critics have demystified and democratized fine wine, bringing it to the attention of a much larger audience.
This process started with the emergence of independent wine critics over the last few
decades, such as Robert Parker, Stephen Tanzer, Jancis Robinson MW, and the Wine
Spectator. The critics act as independent arbiters of quality, giving consumers the
confidence to make purchases without having to taste the wine. With many fine wines
now costing hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars per bottle, this is crucial. Access to pricing information has been similarly revolutionized since the advent of the
internet. Price tracking and comparison websites, and up to date price information on thousands of fine wines. This has made buying and selling much more transparent, increased confidence, and precipitated strong growth.

26/11/2020

History and Development of the Fine Wine Investment Market. cont....

To be regarded as a fine wine, a wine must have the potential to both improve in bottle and appreciate in value, and be actively sought after in the secondary market. To satisfy this requirement, a wine must have a long track record (often centuries rather than decades) and have received strong critical acclaim (from Robert Parker in particular). In practice, this is a narrow group of wines and includes the very top wines of Bordeaux and a smattering of wines from Burgundy, the Rhone, Italy, Champagne, and the New World. Most investment portfolios, for example, have between 80-90% by value invested in just eight brands – the five First Growths, plus Cheval
Blanc, Petrus, and Ausone. These brands have become household names and attached themselves to an almost mythical status within the wine industry (particularly rare vintages)

25/11/2020

History and Development of the Fine Wine Investment Market.
Afternoon folks, I thought I would share some fascinating insights into the world of fine wine and why is so very expensive. Stay tuned and be sure to like, follow, comment, and share.

In a historical context, the wine market makes mainstream investment markets, like
equities and bonds, look positively nouveau. Wine production dates back some 6,500
years. Bordeaux has been producing wine for two millennia and the UK has been
Bordeaux’s largest export market for at least 900 years.
The first reference to a fine wine brand that we would recognize today can be found in
the diaries of Samuel Pepys in 1663. At that time, he noted how he “drank a sort of
French wine called Ho Bryen that hath a good and most particular taste I never met
with”. The great chateaux of Bordeaux – including Haut Brion – still dominate the fine
wine investment landscape.
The wine investment market today looks increasingly mainstream. Private collectors in the UK alone hold more than US$2bn worth of fine wine in bonded warehouses,.

20/11/2020

WELL, I am exhausted from 2 weeks of wine facts and fun quips thank you for sharing commenting and liking my page EVS I salute you. here are some last factual bits of knowledge you might need when entering a quiz and a wine question pops up. Enjoy your weekend folks. make sure there is wine involved.

One Bottle of Wine:
750 ml of liquid
2.4 pounds of grapes (39 oz.)
4 glasses of wine

One Barrel of Wine:
740 Pounds of grapes and 59 gallons
295 bottles of wine
1,180 glasses of wine

Capacity (Liters) followed by the number of standard size wine bottles that would be:
Standard (.75) 1
Magnum (1.5) 2
Jeroboam (3) 4
Rehoboam (4.5) 6
Methuselah (6) 8
Salmanazar (9) 12
Balthazar (12) 16
Nebuchadnezzar (15) 20

19/11/2020

1. All wine is stored at the same temperature, regardless of its color. But reds and whites are consumed at completely different temperatures.

2. One glass of wine consists of juice from one cluster of grapes.

3. Seventy-five grapes comprise one cluster.

4. One grape vine produces 10 bottles.

5. One acre can contain 400 vines, resulting in five tons of grapes.

What has impressed you the most about these facts I'm sure there are things you never knew I personally just expanded my knowledge further. One more mind-blowing fact to share tomorrow all the best. have a Thursday.

18/11/2020

1. A “butt” is a medieval measurement for the liquid volume of wine.

2. Prohibition had a devastating impact on the US wine industry, and it took years to recover. Some wineries survived by making sacramental wine for religious purposes, which was allowed under the law.

3. China has become the leading market for red wine—not just for its flavour. It’s a colour favored by the government, and also is considered lucky.

4. Single-celled organisms called yeast converts the sugar in grapes into alcohol and carbon dioxide, and also release heat in the process.

5. Most wine glasses are specifically shaped to accentuate those defining characteristics, directing wine to key areas of the tongue and nose, where they can be fully enjoyed.

WTG!! China thank you for sharing and liking there are a few more bite-sized bits of info to come stay tuned.

17/11/2020

1. Ancient Romans believed that seasoning was more important than the main flavour of the wine. They often added fermented fish sauce, garlic, lead, and absinthe.

2. The Romans discovered that burning sulfur candles inside empty wine vessels kept them fresh and free from a vinegar smell.

3. The word “sommelier” is an old French word meaning butler or an officer in charge of provisions, derived from the Old Provençal saumalier, or pack-animal driver.

4. The “Cheers” ritual started back in the Middle Ages, when poisoning was a favorite way to get rid of an enemy. To be sure their glass was poison-free, drinkers would first pour a bit of wine into each other’s glass, so if there was poison in one, it was now in both.

5. A crop of newly-planted wines takes about four to five years to grow before it can be harvested.

I am constantly always amazed about how much wine plays a part in all our lives and naturally how much tradition in our modern-day rituals are attributed to it.
Thank you again for sharing and liking and commenting.

16/11/2020

1. The Germans invented Eiswein or wine that is made from frozen grapes.

2. Because grapes in the Southern Hemisphere are picked during what is Spring in the
Northern Hemisphere, a 2010 Australian wine could be six months older than a 2010.

3. As wine comes into contact with air, it quickly spoils.

4. Chilling tones down the sweetness of the wine. If a red wine becomes too warm, it may lose some of its fruity flavour.

5. Wine is made with grapes, but it is NOT made with the typical table grapes you would find at the grocery store.

BONUS fact and helpful tip plus the science behind it after you read this your be like ahhh waow:
Look, sometimes wine just isn’t tasty. But if the thing that has you wrinkling your nose is an odour like rotten eggs or burnt rubber, there might be a quick, cheap fix. Like, really cheap.
All it takes is a single penny. Or a silver spoon, if you’ve got something to prove.
Dropping a penny into wine that tastes gross sounds like a bad idea. After all, throwing good money after bad is generally a dangerous game. But when the bad money is skunky wine and the good money is a single, well-washed penny, I’m all for it.
Here’s why it works: These sulfury smells usually come from a chemical process called reduction. Reduction can produce stinky sulfur molecules called thiols. But luckily, copper reacts with these molecules to create copper sulfide crystals — which are blessedly odourless.

Thank you for reading

12/11/2020

1. A “cork-tease” is someone who constantly talks about the wine he or she will open but never does.

2. While wine offers certain medical benefits, it may slightly increase the risk of contracting certain kinds of cancer of the digestive tract, particularly the esophagus.

3.European wines are named after their geographic locations while non-European wines are named after different grape varieties.

4.Besides churches and monasteries, two other great medieval institutions derived much of their income from wine: hospitals and universities. The most famous medieval wine-endowed hospital is the beautiful Hôtel-Dieu in Beaune, France, it is now a museum.

5.. In the Middle Ages, the greatest and most innovative winemakers of the day were monastic orders. The Cistercians and Benedictines were particularly apt winemakers, and they are said to have actually tasted the earth to discover how the soil changed from place to place.

BONUS FACT: I call my company EVS because of the holy trinity Earth Vine & Sun I cannot think of a more perfect 3some.

If I could travel back in time my devotion to a monastic order would be considered if I could be their chief wine taster Talk about the best job in the church.

11/11/2020

1. 400 different oak species are available to source wood for wine barrels.

2. The signing of the Declaration Of Independence was toasted with glasses of Madeira.

3. President Lincoln held an actual liquor license back in his days in Salem, Illinois. For a modest $7 dollars, in 1833, he and his partner William F. Berry got a tavern license that permitted them to sell a “1/2 pint of wine or French brandy for $.25

4. Wine tasting is the sensory examination and evaluation of wines.

5. A few vine cuttings from the New World brought to Europe spread a tiny insect called Phylloxera vastatrix, which feeds on the roots of vines. The only way to save all of the European grapevines was to take European vines that were grafted onto American rootstocks to combat Phylloxera.

Thank you for the previous likes and shares and comments i find the world of wines so interesting as it's been with our global culture for a long long time now.

10/11/2020

1. The average age of a French oak tree harvested for use in creating wine barrels is 170 years.

2. A survey from Australia once stated that women that drink 2 cups of wine a day tend to enjoy s*x more than women who don’t drink at all.

3. The primary fruit crop in Napa Valley during the 1940s was Prunes – Not grapes.

4.10,000 varieties of wine grapes exist worldwide.

5. Roman Historian Pliny the Elder rated 121 B.C. as a vintage “of the highest excellence.” This was the first known reference to a specific wine vintage.

Interesting I was going to go with the image of Pliny the elder but changed it to these beautiful colours of grapes.

09/11/2020

1. Wine ‘tastings’ are somewhat inaccurately named – top sommeliers agree that smell is by far the most important sense when it comes to drinking wine.

2. The custom of bumping glasses with a “cheers” greeting came from old Rome.

3. In ancient Egypt, the ability to store wine until maturity was considered alchemy and was the privilege of only the pharaohs.

4. Bubbles in wine have been observed since ancient Greece and were attributed to the phases of the moon or to evil spirits.

5.Winemaking is a significant theme in one of the oldest literary works known, the Epic of Gilgamesh. The divinity in charge of the wine was the goddess Sidu

Waow, even I'm learning thank you for the likes and shares more to come tomorrow stay tuned !!

08/11/2020

Hello, EVS wine enthusiasts and wine lovers alike this week ill be sharing some wonderful and curious wine facts bite-sized information to keep you expanding your knowledge on wine. Thank you again for sharing and following my wine page. . Please enjoy and leave a comment ask questions to explore. The purpose of my page is to share my joy and passion for wine.
1. Wine is made in virtually every country in the world.

2. Due to a natural chemical balance, grapes ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, water, or other nutrients.

3. In Vietnam, if you are in the know and ask your waiter for a glass of cobra wine. They will serve you rice-wine covered with snake blood that is killed on the spot.

4. Intense fear or hatred of wine is called “oenophobia.”

5.The dark green wine bottle was an English invention, the work of Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665). Previously wine had been kept in goatskin bags.

08/11/2020

GOOD afternoon wine lovers. I have been away on assignment but back now thinking of my next series of wine fun facts, Tips & Quips. I shall release these periodically over the course of the next two weeks. Just a helpful tip today. PLEASE don't forget to like follow share.