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December 2009

A mixologist is someone who specializes in creating their own cocktails

Cocktails are fun and popular for any occasion. Cocktails are also called “mixed drinks” but “cocktail” sounds much more elegant. Basically, cocktails are a mixture of different types of alcohols and other things such as cream, soda, and juices. There are standard cocktails that have a good amount of popularity such as the classic martini [...]

How to Profit from Wine Making

Prior to recorded history, evidences of homemade wine making has already surfaced. Tomb and wall writings of ancient times have been revealed depicting our early ancestors making wine. The reason for this s quite obvious — making wine is such a simple activity that anybody can do it, anytime, anywhere. As long as one has [...]

The Beauty Of Sparkling Wine

Sparkling wine is well known for it’s tiny bubbles that race to the surface.  Sparkling wine is one of the most exotic yet refreshing types of wine, providing memories and happiness once the cork is released into the air.  For many years, this exotic wine has proven to be among the most popular types of [...]

Boutique wines

Apart from the most famous vineyards found in places like Victoria, South Australia, and New South Wales, they can be found in Tasmania, Western Australia and Queensland as well. Wines produced at these wineries vary from sweet wines to red and fruity white wines, dessert wine, sparkling wines and fortified wines. Tasmania is a large [...]

The New Designer Adult Beverage : Microbrews

When I first started socially drinking alcoholic beverages, the “in” thing to drink was beer. Not designer stouts, mind you, but juts your regular, average Joe beers in the light variety or in their full calorie splendor.  On a night out, if you wanted to get a little creative, you might order something a few [...]

Margaux Wine, A Special Kind of Wine

Margaux wine is concocted from way up north, in a place called Margaux (of course) near the regions of (but is a far cry from) its congenial neighbors in Haut-Médoc. Margaux hold their marshlands in high esteem. They only have a handful of these marshlands which are homes to the name sharing premier cru located [...]

Storing and Caring for Wines

Wondering how to care and properly store your wine at the same time? Like investing your money to a sure hit business?  Then let’s tackle in this article some of the ways how to take care and properly store your precious wine. Storing of  wine can be compare to managing a nuclear plant for example. [...]

How to Make Wine, The Special Kind

Knowledge about the evolution of winemaking has already probably crossed your path. Through the years, people both ancient and modern, have discovered ways and means to produce wine that are much simpler and easier to make. Perhaps you have already discovered some recipes on how to make wine that make use of other sources aside [...]

Homemade Carignan Wine

Carignan is more affordable than the other varietals perhaps because of the following qualities: Its ripening process takes quite longer than the others. Because it takes long to ripen, its susceptibility to spring frost is decreased therefore, it can produce huge quantities. However, it tends to be sensitive to powdery and downy mildew. Having said [...]

Great Opportunities for Chinese Beer Industry

www.shcri.com – Since the 1990s, Chinese beer industry begins to develop rapidly. Chinese beer production and consumption per capita have been increased significantly. From 2003 to 2007, all economic indicators in Chinese beer industry saw increase: the beer production was raised by 14.26 million kiloliters with the growth rate of 56.9%; the sales revenue was [...]