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| Wine Is An Century Old Art, A Modern Day Science and A World-wide Business |
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| 作者：Donald S… 文章来源：不详 更新时间：2008-2-12 20:36:25 | 【字体：小 大】 |
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European species vitis vinifera, from which various well known wines are made, such as Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Merlot.
Viticulture, the term used for the practice of grape growing for winemaking, is one of the most complicated agricultural undertakings today. A master vintner (today, sometimes known as an oenologist), must be an expert in a wide range of subjects including fermentation, soil chemistry, climatology and various other ancient arts and modern sciences.
In addition to categorization by variety, wines are also classified by vinification methods (sparkling, still, fortified, ros茅, blush), by region (Bordeaux, Burgundy, Alsace etc.), by vintage as well as by several other methods.
As soon as the grower, chemist and manufacturer have done their job, the businessman then takes over and wine today is certainly very big business. Wine sales in the United States alone run to something like 600 million gallons, representing in excess of $20 billion in consumer spending. Perhaps not surprisingly France is the world leader when it comes to exports with 22% of world export volume, with Italy coming in a close second.
At the end of the day however, no matter how big a business wine making is today, it is still very much a balance of art, science and business and winemaking is certainly not a venture to be entered into by the faint hearted.
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