where are the purest wine gowing regions of the world?
Which regions or countries have the purest environments for producing wine? I have started to drink a little red wine, as i have developed high blood pressure. However i saw on the news recently that some regions which produce red wine are tainted by pollution–such as the Hunter valley region of Australia where strip mining for coal has tainted the air, water and general enviroment. Also some of the crowded regions of the world such as western Europe and california, may be tainted by smog and industrial pollution. Which wine growing area have the most pristine enviroments? Thanks
Probably here in British Columbia where I live. There are wineries here on Vancouver Island, though I don’t think any of them are large enough yet to sell outside of local areas, and there are wineries in the interior of BC, around the Okanagan Valley. Pretty clean up there and many Canadian wines come from there. Oregon is probably pretty clean and there are some very nice Oregon wines. And there’s Washington state too.
Was 2007 a good year in Livermore/Napa Valley (CA)?
I’m ordering a case of wine, and the last vintage I had was 2005, which was excellent. They only have the 2007 available now. Was that a good season for wine growing?
Specifically, the vineyard is Murrieta’s Well in Livermore CA, if anyone konws specifics about that.
Thanks!
It really doesn’t look good for the 2007 year. No awards, no honorable mentions. If you can find 2004 reserves from Murrieta’s wWell, those are excellent!
While one may not think of Lebanon as a particularly well-known wine region, Lebanon is one of the oldest, if not the oldest wine producing regions of the world.
Famed for its majesric cedars and mountains, Lebanon, the blessed land of Canaan surrounded by eternal snows, has been a centre of wine making since the dawn of time.
Lebanon’s fertile soils were thus famous for their wines in ancient times, and were highly regarded in Greece, Anatolia and above all in Israel, which maintained close commercial ties with the Phoenicians. Phoenician merchants shipped rich and sweet Lebanese wines in amphoras to all four corners of the Mediterranean, to be drunk by the rich citizens of Athens, Carthage and Rome. Lebanon therefore gets credit for the propagation of wine growing, through its Phoenician ancestors around the Mediterranean, along with the colour purple and the alphabet.
But what is the best Lebanese Wine ?
For me the best are the ones from Zahle region : KSARA
I have recomended them to a friend about 2 months ago, but he was more interested at the cheeses from that zone.
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