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Beverages, Alcoholic Drinks and Wines

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A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine.
Una cena senza vino è come un giorno senza sole.

We quaff our thirst with many things. Wine is among the oldest drinks known to man, safer than water to many of the ancients. We can turn the simplest grain into an alcoholic beverage, then mix it with other ingredients to make delicious drinks. We can slake our thirst with water, whether fresh from a bubbling spring, purified from a tap or a bottle of designer water. The drinks we make are sometimes holiday traditions, putting us in a celebratory mood.

Wine may be the favored drink of humankind. In whatever countries a grape vine can root, you will find grapes turning to the sun, growing juicy, waiting to become wine. There are endless varieties of wine, from sweet and syrupy to dry and crisp, from deep hearty red wines to light white wines. We make the wine sparkle and use special grapes, call this Champagne and use it to toast milestone in our lives. We decant wine so it may breathe, purchasing the best cut-glass decanters.

The benefits of wine fridges is that it helps you manage its maturity and improving the aroma, flavor and complexity, whether you want it to store for a week, year or even a decade.

We hold wine in reserve if a year is good. We build special wine cellars, with humidity and temperature control to protect, cherish and maintain the prize wines of special vintage. When it comes to wine, we turn romantic, our vocabularies become poetic. We describe the taste of wine using the words of gemstones -brilliant amber, clear ruby, dull garnet. Taste has several aspects such as sweetness, body, length, balance, acid. The aroma of wine we describe as a bouquet and use words such as flowery, spicy, smoky, woody. Let us begin our discovery...

 

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"Burgundy makes you think of silly things;
Bordeaux makes you talk about them,
Champagne makes you do them." Brillat-Savarin

One barrel of wine can work more miracles than a church full of saints. Italian Proverb

In water one sees one's own face, but in wine one beholds the heart of another. French Proverb

There are more old wine drinkers than old doctors. German Proverb

Drink a glass of wine after your soup, and you steal a ruble from the doctor. Russian Proverb

Take the drink for the thirst that is yet to come. Irish Proverb

 

Pertinent and Impertinent Facts about Alcoholic Drinks

A cocktail may be defined as a chilled alcoholic drink made from a combination of liquors with ingredients to flavor added.

A 'built drink' is one that has all ingredients put in a glass, then is stirred about three times. 

Whiskey is an established tradition in the US, going back to the founding fathers.  None other than George Washington was possessed of a distillery.  He was able to produce 11,000 gallons when he founded the company.  He made a whopping profit of $7,500.   Recently a reconstructed distillery was opened.

 

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