I Drink Therefore I am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine
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Mar 05 2010

Wine Making And Wine Testing

It’s a fact that the sugar and acid levels are 2 of the key elements of creating a good batch and so any adjustments to the process are based on those tests. As you are already aware, the sugar level of your wine is incredibly important as the yeast must feed on it to create the alcohol. The amount of sugar you use will determine the amount of alcohol that will be in the final batch but in order to run these tests you will need a hydrometer.

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Feb 18 2010

Earth Day Food & Wine Festival 2009 w/ Adam The Wine Guy

Published by Wines Magic under Wine Videos

Tour Along w/ Adam The Wine Guy to the 2009 Earth Day Food & Wine Festival in Paso Robles, California. Its Monkey Time for the great wine, delicious food, and interesting people along the way.

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Feb 13 2010

How the Vinturi Wine Aerator Can Change the Taste and Smell of Your Wine

Published by Camille Broughton under wines

Are you someone who likes to drink wine? Folks that love wine are incredibly meticulous about what the drink, how it smells and how it tastes. This is the reason wine aerators have become so popular over the past several years. In fact, one of the best-selling aerators is called the Vinturi wine aerator. So what do these things really do? The larger question is whether or not these little greatly promoted gadgets actually do anything extraordinary. On occasion, marketing is over hyped and the thing doesn’t perform. So does this one?

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Dec 10 2009

What’s Keeping You From Making the Best Homemade Wine Ever? Learn Right Now in Six Easy Steps

Making wine is a real art form that can change how you see the world and the people in it. You and your creativity will be contained in every bottle of wine you produce. Making wine from home is a fun hobby, not to mention delicious wines can be produced for just pennies on the dollar. Most people believe wine making is complex, but it’s not as hard as you may think. Wine making dates back centuries and people all over the world still engage in it today. Wine making can be summed up in six steps:

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Dec 09 2009

Why Wine Drinkers Still Use Wine Goblets

Wine is wildly popular, and there’s an industry behind it all that continues to grow. Many people care about not only their wine, but their glasses. As a result, red wine goblets. continue to grow in popularity.

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Dec 02 2009

The Art Of Picking The Best Christmas Wine

People around the globe are easily touched when they receive a wine gift, which is a natural present abound Christmas time. Christmas time offers an opportunity for most people to meet and cheer each other with eating and drinking and giving each other presents during these festive days.

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Nov 27 2009

What Are The Health Benefits That You Get From Wine?

We all have raised our wine glasses in a special toast and uttered the words -To Your Health. While we do not throw our wine glasses in the fireplace anymore there is a good deal to be said about the health benefits of wine, both red and white varieties.

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Nov 16 2009

A Goblet of Wine a Day Keeps the Doc Away

Drinking of wine has been long associated with health benefits that can’t be found by any other alcoholic brew. Beer causes all sorts of health problems and is quite simply bad news for your liver and your stomach. Brandy is no better, but wine, wine is the exact opposite. It will truly shield you from several of the ailments that you are predisposed to.

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Oct 19 2009

Crystal Goblets Add a Nice Touch

Published by Jos Peterson under wines

People all over the world are in love with wine. Some might call it an obsession, and rightly so. From wineries to wine of the month clubs, there are so many things to feed the obsession of so many connoisseurs. Even magazines are huge. Due to the tradition of wine goblets, there’s been a great revival of the ancient drinking device in recent years. This is one of the many things that people do when they take their wine drinking seriously.

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Oct 14 2009

Wine Goblets and Pewter Goblets Remain Popular Today

Published by Stan Happfeld under wines

The terms wine glasses and wine goblets are essentially interchangeable, though the goblet is a more traditional form that was used centuries ago. Unlike today’s typical wine glasses, these were made of other materials.

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Sep 18 2009

A Very Simple Intro To The Major Types of Wine Making

Published by April Kerr under wines

There are a plethora of varied choices that can be made using wine making. You do not need to be an pro to do wine making as there are resources offered for everybody to do their own winemaking. There are kits that are able to be utilized to make wine as well as a lot of books that offer lots of information on winemaking. Home wine making has been practiced for many years and this is how the big wine companies first got started.

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Aug 26 2009

Wine Testing And Making

Published by Justin Hofmann under wines

Sugar and acid levels are 2 important parts to making a great batch of wine, so adjustments to the process are based on those tests. As you are already aware, the sugar level is critical as the yeast must feed on it to make the alcohol. The amount of sugar that you start your batch with will ultimately determine the level of alcohol that will be in the final batch but in order to run these tests you’ll have to own a hydrometer.

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Jul 25 2009

Wine Making - Tips To Help You Start Wine Making At Home

Published by Carol Bell under wines

For most individuals and families it is a major decision deciding you want to make your own wine. There is so much wine now available in speciality and grocery stores that you can decide your own price point and taste almost all standard varieties. For the commoner, understanding how to make wine may not be the overture to actually making ones own wine. The information you garner when learning how to make wine will enable you to make an informed decision on whether you will do a home brew or not. For the prospective wine taster or vineyard owner learning how to make wine is considered the very first step in a long and arduous path to success.

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May 31 2009

Drunken SF Dance Routine

Published by Wines Magic under Wine Videos

On the return ferry to San Francisco, from the Tiburon Wine Festival; George teaches a group of ferry passengers some of his moves that ‘got him into all the Beyonce videos’. … SF San Francisco drunken drink ferry tiburon wine festival

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May 09 2009

How To Make Homemade Wine The Easy Way

Published by Wines Magic under Wine Videos

‘Inmate Brewing’ … simple stuff. When I start a new batch I’ll post a video of me actually doing it, just waiting on a batch to finish. I must point out, it can TAKE up to 24 hours for the balloon to first inflate (mine took about 7 hours till I pierced holes in it) [...]

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Apr 26 2009

Raspberry, blueberry wine fermenting

Published by Wines Magic under Wine Videos

My first try at homemade wine. This shows the two fermenting side by side in large buckets.

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Apr 26 2009

Tips For Making Wine At Home

Published by Wines Magic under Wine Videos

www.how-to-make-homemade-wine.com Video on tips for making homemade wine from fruit other than grapes. The site also has

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Apr 26 2009

Tips For Making Wine At Home

Published by Wines Magic under Wine Videos

www.how-to-make-homemade-wine.com Video on tips for making homemade wine from fruit other than grapes. The site also has

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Apr 20 2009

How to Enjoy Wine

Published by Wines Magic under Wine Videos

How to enjoy and get the most out of wine. Does the smell of a cork tell you anything? How many different shapes of wineglass should you buy? And what’s the deal with decanting? In this episode, the sommelier instructors at The Wine School of Philadelphia discuss how to get the most pleasure from a [...]

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Apr 20 2009

Corking Homemade Wine

Published by Wines Magic under Wine Videos

Matthew and James help their dad battle and cork the wine.

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Apr 15 2009

RealQuestions: Decanting Wine

Published by Wines Magic under Wine Videos

Ever wonder why you decant wine? Here’s the answer. Watch more RealQuestions at realmeals.tv.

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