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Wine- Grow Ers:
The tradition is either to grow a number of different varieties together, or grow them separately and then blend the resulting wines In the main wine districts of Europe, wine is known by the vineyard in which it is grown rather than by the kind of grape that goes into it. The choice of grape is so customary that it is taken for granted and laws usually make the traditional variety a condition of using the traditional wine name. White burgundy, for example, to be called white burgundy, must be made entirely of Chardonnay grapes [8]. Ampelography - the study of grapes - is one of the most delicate and difficult studies connected with wine.Until the seventeenth century wine spent its life, as it had mostly done in Roman times, in casks. If bottles were used they were simply carafes for use at the table. The rediscovery of the cork some time in the seventeenth century, and its sequel - the discovery that wine in a tighly corked Bottle lasted much longer than wine kept in a barrel -brought about a wine revolution. The rise of the great estates and the evolution of modern wines dates, therefore, from the eighteenth century -the Age of Enlightenment.
Wine is the fermented juice of the grape. Every drop of wine represents rain recovered from the ground through the mechanism of the grape-bearing plant, the vine. The classical European wine- grow ersvine, Vitis vinifera, one among many vine species (which include the common Virginia creeper), had its original home in Asia. Since earliest times, varieties of the species have been selected and propagated for various qualities, both for wine- grow ersmaking and for eating.
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