Hints and tips:
...Today Lodi’s vineyards mainly supply bulk wine for blending to the behemoth Gallo and wineries with smarter addresses....
...for Larkmead winery from grapes grown on the Napa Valley floor’s alluvial soils and wanted to try his hand at some other terroirs....
...I wandered around the back and found a lone labourer who informed me that his boss was busy at his other winery, Ch des Tours in Vacqueyras....
...vineyards....
...Low, undulating countryside unfurls in every direction, covered in quilts of alternating vineyard and woodland stitched together by meandering two-lane roads....
...And Jake Bilbro now owns Limerick Lane in Russian River Valley, an estate planted mainly with Zinfandel long ago. The next generation, Chris’s grandchildren, are already making their own wine....
...Its billionaire creator, Anthony von Mandl, began his working life as a wine importer and now owns Mission Hill (one of the Valley’s largest wineries) as well as CedarCreek, CheckMate, Martin’s Lane, Road...
...The only way in is via the two-lane Highway 128 that threads through its redwoods and apple orchards. Give or take a logging truck, it’s very much off the beaten track....
...A short detour east from Peso da Régua brought us to the gates of the splendidly isolated Quinta do Panascal winery....
...Down a lane towards the sea through a forest of banana plants stood La Palapa, a sumptuous collection of three houses in a style combining elements of Africa, Bali and Provence....
...Jean Nouvel built the gleaming winery, and Frank Gehry the music pavilion....
...Kingscote Estate, Vowels Lane, East Grinstead, West Sussex, UK, £4.5m Where Near the Weir Wood and reservoir, a 10-minute drive from the town of East Grinstead in southern England....
...The vineyard, with its manor house and small chapel, dates back to the 17th century....
...Lou Kapcsandy pounced on the State Lane vineyard when it came up for sale at the turn of the century after years of buying its produce as Beringer Private Reserve Cabernet....
...And then we were off, feeling every ridge and pothole of the dusty lanes that wound among the vineyards....
...Hire a bike or scooter to explore the lanes leading through vineyards to fine sandy beaches such as Ayazma and Ayana – though expect chillier seas this far north....
...The Lane, which makes some superb single vineyard wines, also boasts a popular, European-influenced restaurant....
...Leading local wineries such as Grover and Sula have expanded under government protection and recently won international acclaim....
...We stood in the winery with a glass of steely, lime-fresh riesling, looking out at a wide-screen view of craggy peaks and gloomy valleys that was pure Ansel Adams....
...But that’s just what Danilo Snajder and two pals, once employees of the former state-owned winery in Ormoz, north-east Slovenia, have done – and in double-quick time....
...In the super-sensual world of wine, scientists tend to lurk in back rooms – in the often malodorous small labs attached to wineries where they analyse what is produced and save it from disaster, or behind...
...As a lawyer, he specialised in land and property, which would serve him well when he gave it all up to be a vintner and set about buying existing vineyards or vine-plantable land throughout California....
...Royal has its own vast modern winery in Oxnard, California, which produces such labels as Baron Herzog and is heavily dependent on bought-in grapes....
...The journey took us from rolling farmland up into the Gibbston Valley vineyards first established by goldminers in the 19th century. Near Cromwell, there are orchards and wineries....
...Outstanding winery restaurants include that of The Lane in the Adelaide Hills (Ravenswood Lane, Hahndorf, tel: +61 8 8388 1250, www.thelane.com.au) and, in McLaren Vale, d’Arry’s Verandah Restaurant (Osborn...
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