Yield

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Apr 042011
the root system of a vine will suck a certain amount of nutrients out of the good earth. The more grapes there are, the less each of them gets. Reduce the number of grapes and you get better wine.
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Xynomavro

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Apr 042011
zippy red-wine grape variety (literally “acid-black”) of northern Greece making good wines – which mellow with age – in Naoussa and included here as I’ve got to have something beginning with “X,” for Heaven’s sake, and it was either this or xarell-lo.
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Whisk(e)y

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Apr 042011
they don’t like it when I say this, but whisky appears to be oak-aged vodka. There is, I realise, a deficit of swirling Celtic mists, smoking peat fires and blooming heather in all this but it’s still preferable to my other, even dodgier, definition of beer schnapps.
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Vieilles Vignes

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Apr 042011
“old vines,” therefore with deeper root systems, meaning a more interesting diet for the grapes and, as such, usually a good sign on a label.
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USA Beers

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Apr 042011
Without doubt, and to the amazement of all who think of American beer as being only ever like “making love in a punt,” – today’s craft beers are among the best in the world.
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