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® naPa valley America’s most-celebrated wine region is home to some of the Napa Valley is America’s Bordeaux. It’s like a giant amusement park for wine lovers and unlike every other American wine region. The cost of vineyard land in the Napa River drainage is the highest anywhere in the United States. Consequently, only highly capitalized wineries can set up shop here. The typical Napa Valley winery is a lavish château-like estate

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County. They are home to the Mount Veeder, Spring Mountain, and Diamond Mountain AVAs.

• Wine tasting here is more structured and more expensive than that in other regions. Typical tasting fees range from $5 to $40, with most wineries charging $10.

• The eastern mountains are dominated by Atlas Peak (south) and Howell Mountain (north). Many of Napa Valley’s most celebrated Cabernet Sauvignons come

• from the region around Oakville and Rutherford.

• Premium wines from better producers are not included in a general tasting. The Sterling Winery offers a

short aerial tram ride up to its tasting room in Calistoga. The basic fee is $20 including the tram ride. “Cult” wineries are generally not open to the public. But Opus One offers one taste of its current release Cabernet Sauvignon for $30.

• A typical wine cave tour lasts an hour and a half and includes a barrel tasting as well as a tasting of finished wine. A picnic lunch is often included.

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• Many Napa Valley wineries offer free use of their picnic facilities. It is customary for users to purchase a bottle of wine.

• Wine cave tours are priced around $50 per person and require reservations.

• Nearly sixty Napa Valley wineries age their wines in wine caves. Many offer special tours and tastings.

• Well-known wineries that offer exceptional wine cave tours include Flora Springs and Pine Ridge.

• There are around fifty Napa Valley wineries that include picnic facilities.Some wineries have onsite delicatessens to supply cheese,

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• Oakville Grocery, on the corner of Oakville Crossing and SR 29 is a “must stop” location for picnic supplies. It has operated continuously since 1881.

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cooler to begin with. Other garnishes you can try are grapes, cantaloupe balls, nectarines, all berries, cherries, cubed pear, cubed mango, cubed pineapple, star fruit, star anise, edible flowers, or citrus. It’s really all up to what you like.

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Enjoying wine to the fullest need not be ritualized, but there are a few particulars that will greatly enhance your wine-tasting experience: color—young red wines will be a bluish red. As they age, the color warms to ruby, then garnet, and finally brick red. In old red wines, the pigment may coalesce, leaving a clear edge that can be seen when the

glass is tilted. Unfiltered wines may not be crystal clear but may have a richer flavor. Texture—swirl the wine and see if it descends in sheets or “tears” or “legs” on the inside of the glass. Smell—much of the expressiveness of a wine is in its aroma. All wines should exhibit strong fruit aromas such as citrus, plum, cherry, or blackberry. But many other aromas

Swirling the Wine

Older Wines Show Special Characteristics

may be present, too, such as herbs, flowers, minerals, earth, and spice. Flavor—the flavor of a wine usually follows the aromas, but not always. Some wines will exhibit differences between aromas and flavors. German Rieslings, for example, often exhibit a petrol or burnt rubber aroma, which usually does not appear in the flavor. If you experience a dryness, or puckeriness, in a red wine, there are unresolved tannins. These will soften over time. Finish—notice how the taste of the wine lingers on your palate.

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• oak barrels are to the winemaker what the spice rack is to the chef. Fermenting or maturing a wine in oak barrels imparts a secondary layer of flavor and aroma to the wine.

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1. Pour the grenadine into the bottom of a tropical glass. 2. Blend the rum and piña colada mix with a cup of ice. 3. Pour into the glass. 4. Float the blue Curacao on top.

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Different kinds of oak barrels add special flavors to wine, such as vanilla, brown spices, caramel, cream, coconut, and sweetness. The small French oak barrels most favored cost nearly $1,000 and lose most of their flavoring potential after three years.

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nology a cooler means wine with lemon-lime soda (or sweetened carbonation). So, this opens up a whole world of possibilities. You can use different wines, but make sure you stick with dry ones because you need to balance the sweetness of the soda you’re adding. And if you need help in what is available as far as a replacement for the lemon-lime soda then just

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summer and July 4th drinks Keep your cool by making some refreshing drinks for celebrating or To beat the heat summer drinks should be mouth watering, light, refreshing, bubbly, and above all else, cold. The season allows a wide assortment of fruits to be used so your imagination can go wild! Especially when you have so many fruity flavored spirits to choose from as well. Let’s take the Watermelon Kiwi Cooler, Now, in cocktail termi-

• oak barrels may be toasted over a fire to promote certain specific characteristics. typical oak enhancements are impressions of vanilla, spice, roasted nuts, and meaty flavors.

• in formal or informal wine-tasting events, a fourth S is added: spit.

• New oak barrels lose their influence after 3-5 years and are said to be “neutral.” • Swirling reveals the visual beauty of the wine. • Swirling opens up the wine by introducing oxygen and releasing the wine’s aromatics. • Wines should be swirled often between sips.

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• Swirling allows you to see the wine’s texture or viscosity as it returns to the bottom of the bowl. Older wines and those high in sugar or alcohol will form “legs” on the inside of the glass. This shows viscosity and is always a desirable characteristic.

• The color of red wines changes from a bluish red to an orange-red. The older the wine, the more orange and transparent the color. • Older white wines will assume a golden color. Eventually they will turn brown and become undrinkable. Those wines

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are said to be “maderized.” • The pigments have consolidated, leaving a clear edge. Older wines, when swirled, can suggest abstract paintings when backlit. Older wines take time to open up and release their aromatics. They should always be decanted.

• Fine wine will almost always show visual texture. • Texture takes the form of “tears” or “legs” as they drip down the inside of the glass. Young wines and wines low in alcohol form sheets rather than legs.

the wine and are influenced not only by the wine’s richness but also by the level of alcohol and sugar. • Sweet wines and wines higher in alcohol have a greater viscosity than dry wines.

• Tears reflect the viscosity of

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