Algerian Wine

• August 2009

  The 45th parallel note applies solely to Europe, thanks to the warming ... degrees North passes through Algeria, Morocco, and the Golan Heights, for a comparison. Many of these kinds of short hand answers apply only to Old-World wine regions. They were very useful when that was... Read moreThe 45th parallel note applies solely to Europe, thanks to the warming ... degrees North passes through Algeria, Morocco, and the Golan Heights, for a comparison. Many of these kinds of short hand answers apply only to Old-World wine regions. They were very useful when that was all that interested those serious about wine, but are now rather misleading and confusing to those just getting interested in the subject.    (hide)

  Forum post in the topic If you had to give a lecture... by preppycuisine

  
  

• April 2009

  Japanese trading companies used to import a lot of grape 'concentrate' from ... Bulgaria (and Rumania and Algeria) back in the '80s, to help in the making of 'domestic' wine. Import duties on bottled wine were 100% of original costs, whereas were minimal on unfinished agricultural... Read moreJapanese trading companies used to import a lot of grape 'concentrate' from ... Bulgaria (and Rumania and Algeria) back in the '80s, to help in the making of 'domestic' wine. Import duties on bottled wine were 100% of original costs, whereas were minimal on unfinished agricultural foodstuffs. 'Vintners' to the west of Tokyo would then add yeast and hotwater to the stuff, swirl and ferment, bottle and sell at prices that were relatively lower but still way too high for the quality of what came out of those bottles..    (hide)

  Forum post in the topic Bulgarien Rosenthaler Rotwein... by dmcker

  
  

• March 2009

  A few years back I made a stop in the Katsunuma wine country on my way home ... 'concentrate' from both Algeria and Romania and was dumping it, yeast and the warm water into the drums and using a large egg-beater-like contraption to keep a vortex going. Then he covered the drumcan... Read moreA few years back I made a stop in the Katsunuma wine country on my way home ... 'concentrate' from both Algeria and Romania and was dumping it, yeast and the warm water into the drums and using a large egg-beater-like contraption to keep a vortex going. Then he covered the drumcan with a huge plastic tarp and fastened it with a monster rubber band and let it sit for awhile. A tasting of his end product held no surprises after I'd seen his production line. Granted that was several years ago, and some people in that and other 'wine' producing areas have since studied viniculture in California and France and are currently trying their best. They still are decades away, it seems, and in my more cynical moments I imagine that Napa in the 19th century still had the jump on them. I agree with you wholeheartedly, wineluv, about wine and sushi. There is no good match to my palate. Part of the problem is that 'sushi-meshi' (the rice portion that gives the dish its name) is prepared with vinegar. Another is that soy sauce is a bad match for any wine I've tried with it. Fortunately there are so many good sakes around, with liquor stores vying with each other these days to present ever-better lists of obscure local offerings. They go superlatively well with sushi. I even have trouble with wine and Chinese, due largely to the aforementioned soy sauce issue. But they have Shaosing 'wine'... ;-    (hide)

  Forum post in the topic New from the Vancouver, BC area by dmcker

  
  

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