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VINTAGE WINE [4 records]

Record 1 2022-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wine Service
  • Winemaking
CONT

In a horizontal tasting, the wines are all from the same vintage but are from different wineries. Keeping wine variety or type and wine region the same helps emphasize differences in winery styles.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Service des vins
  • Industrie vinicole
CONT

La dégustation horizontale permet de comparer différents vins d'un même millésime et d'une même appellation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Servicio de vinos
  • Industria vinícola
CONT

La cata horizontal es una sesión donde se prueban diversos vinos pero de la misma cosecha y de la misma denominación de origen.

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Record 2 2011-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Winemaking
DEF

A high-quality, extremely expensive wine produced in very small quantities.

CONT

The original garage wine is called Le Pin, and its grapes grow on a tiny, five acre plot in Pomerol, which is near St. Emilion in Bordeaux, France. The first vintage, from 1981, was so astonishingly good that other winemakers soon followed suit to create their own boutique wines(as small wine batches were originally called). Since most of these operations were housed in relatively modest accommodations the Le Pin wine cellar is in the basement of a beat up old farmhouse the French writer Nicholas Baby came up with the name vins de garage and called the vintners garagistes...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie vinicole
CONT

On aurait aussi bien pu les appeler «vins de laboratoire» ou «vins expérimentaux», mais l'expression «vins de garage», née sous la plume d'un journaliste du Wine Spectator fit florès. Il s'agit d'une nouvelle génération de vins, issus de micro-parcelles du Bordelais, qui atteignent des prix astronomiques. Narguant ainsi leurs aïeux de grand renom, seigneurs du fameux terroir depuis deux siècles et demi, ils attirent les foudres de quelques professionnels, mais suscitent toujours le même engouement à l'international. Des produits jeunes et bien cotés, qui sont à la viticulture ce que les start-up sont à l'informatique.

Spanish

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Record 3 2008-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Winemaking
DEF

[A wine] made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year.

OBS

In certain wines it can denote quality, as in Port wine, where Port houses make and declare "vintage" Port in their best years. From this tradition, a common, though incorrect, usage applies the term to any wine that is perceived to be particularly old or of a particularly high quality.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie vinicole
CONT

Qu'est-ce qu'un vin millésimé ? Le millésime indique tout simplement l'année de la vendange et de l'élaboration du vin. Lorsqu'une année est inscrite sur l'étiquette d'une bouteille, il s'agit de l'année de vinification. Ce vin est alors millésimé.

Spanish

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Record 4 1993-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Winemaking
  • Viticulture
OBS

Sauternes.... There is a strong resemblance between the way in which Sauternes and the German Trockenbeerenauslese wines are made. The vintage is late.(Wine and Spirits, Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 99).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie vinicole
  • Viticulture
OBS

Il y a une grande ressemblance entre la vinification du Sauternes et du Trockenbeerenauslese allemand. La vendange est tardive.

Spanish

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