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Rather, they have a very fine grade of tannin, which in the past could make wines so puckery they went down like liquid nails.

By listening to these little conversations, you can discover just how smooth or how puckery you want your wines to be.

Victorian farmhouse setting, a large selection of wines to sip and buy, estate-grown organic produce, homemade bread, and even a bocce ball court.

Sonoma had often compared their wines with international benchmarks, and favorably so.

Napa and Sonoma make both white wines and red wines extremely well, the 1990s saw a breakthrough in the styling of reds, a higher-level style change than those of the 1970s and early 1980s.

The wines of the Greeks and Romans were probably as good, or as bad, as those made by monks in the Middle Ages and only a bit improved by secular wine-makers from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution.

wines For white wines, the winemaker wants only the juice from the grapes.

In the recent past, most white wines were fermented in stainless-steel tanks fitted with cooling jackets.

More recently, many Napa and Sonoma producers have begun using small wooden barrels for fermentation of white wines, especially chardonnay.

The general rule among winemakers is that great white wines and great red wines are derived mostly from their place of origin: the right grape planted in the right soil and right climate.

It provides pleasure and a chance to learn why the wines of Sonoma and Napa rank high among the wines of the world.

Almost any comparison will reveal features of wines you might not see by tasting one wine at a time.

White wines also differ in hue, from white gold to straw to dark gold, sometimes laced with a light green.

Red wines that show a lot of rusty red might also be past their prime, and reds that show a lot of purple are probably young.

We are mostly reduced to similes and metaphors, to comparing wines with more familiar substances.