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unusual facts about wine making



Marx Rumpolt

A year before the death of his master, the Elector of Mainz, Rumpolt wrote his cookbook, which consisted of 2000 recipes and instructions for wine making and 150 woodcuts by Jost Amman.


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Benjamin de Rothschild

Benjamin is a scion of the secondary, (non-wine-making) Parisian Rothschild dynasty.

Brusnik, Zaječar

Like many other villages in Eastern Serbia, specifically the Timok region, Brusnik has "pivnice"/"pimnice", a separate but attached set of temporary residences, aligned in streets and with shops, but not a school, post office or medical facilities (which remain only in the village itself), located 5 km away from the village proper and used for a month or so during the grape harvesting and wine making season.

Café de Paris

Café de Paris (Cubzac-les-Ponts), wine-making enterprise founded in 1967 and located around and within limestone caves at Cubzac-les-Ponts commune in Aquitaine region of Southwestern France

Economy of Bălți

In Bălți, most industries are concerned with processing farm produce, notably flour milling, sugar refining, and wine making, but furniture, agricultural machinery.

Élisabeth de Rothschild

Élisabeth de Rothschild (née de Chambure) (March 9, 1902 – Ravensbrück concentration camp, March 23, 1945) was a member by marriage of the wine-making branch of the Rothschild family.

Fabio Asquini

Asquini also pioneered wine making with the Picolit grape in the Friuli region of Italy and sold his wines all over Italy and Europe in green blown-glass bottles.

Howell Mountains

Although rhyolitic rocks generally weather to soils that are considered to be nutrient poor, the Howell Mountain American Viticultural Area and other wine appellation districts located on the west slope claim that grape vines planted in these soils are stressed and as a consequence produce wine grapes that are superior in quality for wine making when compared to grapes grown on unstressed vines planted in the richer loams of the valley floor.

Les vins skalli

In the 1920s, Robert-Elie Skalli starts working in wine-making and chooses land in the Oran, Mascara and Aïn Témouchent regions of Algeria to plant Southern French variety vines such as Carignan, Cinsault, Grenache, Alicante, and so on.

Melchor de Concha y Toro

In 1883, the Marquis Melchor de Concha y Toro entered the wine-making industry by deciding to plant wineries in the valley of the Maipo River.

Moldovan wine

The grapegrowing and wine-making in the area between the Nistru and Prut rivers, which began 4000–5000 years ago, had periods of rises and falls but has survived through all the changing social and economic conditions.

Parras de la Fuente

There are a large number of factories that produce denim, including a Dickies factory, and Parras is also a wine-making place.

Second wine

Having a second wine is generally a part of the recipe prescribed by Michel Rolland and similar wine-making consultants.

Tempranillo

Ribera del Duero wine making extends back over 2,000 years, as evidenced by the 66-metre mosaic of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, that was unearthed in 1972, at Baños de Valdearados.

Valeri Bure

Bure ventured into the wine making business, where he has partnered with a few entrepreneurs and created Bure Family Wines.