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2019 Rockbridge Vineyards V d’Or ($32) Rockbridge Vineyards is located in Raphine Virginia which is part of the Shenandoah Valley AVA. Approved in 1982 as Virginia’s first American Viticultural Area, the Shenandoah Valley AVA is located in the Appa...
Last time, the topic of residual sugar was discussed. Simply put, residual sugar (RS) is a measure of the sugar (typically in grams per liter) that remains in wine after fermentation. During an uninterrupted fermentation, the yeast will continue to...
Ice wine (eiswein in Austria and Germany, or the single-word icewine in Canada) is produced from the pressings of frozen grapes. Germany and Canada are the leading producers of traditional ice wines, but Austria, Switzerland and the United States a...