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This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Indian Late Harvest Chenin Blanc (dessert Wine) again teeters on its own fiscal cliff. Yet the onecontinuing bright spot in the country¹s economy is its wineindustry, which has record sales abroad based on high qualitywine at remarkably modest prices.According to the Wines of Argentina , sales of the country’smalbec, the dominant varietal here, grew by double digitsworldwide from 2004 through 2011, while the number of casesexported to the U.S. more than doubled from 2007 through 2012.At a time when the global market is glutted, Argentina is theworld’s fifth largest wine producer. Correction: Jackson Family Wines is based in Santa Rosa. An earlier version of the story had it based in the wrong spot. Jackson Family Wines, the Santa Rosa wine giant founded by Jess Jackson , has bought close to 400 acres of Willamette Valley vineyards in Oregon, according to published accounts. Indian Late Harvest Chenin Blanc (dessert Wine) The purchase, reportedly confirmed by chairman Barbara Banke , Jess Jackson 's widow, involves three properties in Oregon, Jackson Family Wines' first acquisitions outside California. The three properties in the Eola-Amity viticultural area, are known as the Zena East, Zena Middle and Maple Grove parcels, the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat reported late Friday.at most an acre or so of vines, so Lou could putter in the garage and make a barrel or two of wine from his backyard fruit. Three years after the family, including their son Louis, made the first tour of the small cottages for sale in the valley, the family was harvesting fifteen and a half acres of Cabernet and Merlot that would bear their family name, and nearly 300-year-old family crest. Perhaps Lou Kapcsándy's shrewd eye for a good piece of ground can be blamed for turning a simple retirement dream into an entirely new career and a family obsession. Born and raised in Hungary, a young, immigrant Kapcsándy (pronounced cap-shawn-dee) trained as a chemical engineer, spent some time in the military, as a pro football player, as a mechanical engineer, and finally as an entrepreneur and, for 20 years, a commercial contracting magnate, of sorts. Nearly a billion dollars in annual revenue later, Kapcsándy knows a thing or two about sizing up land for development. Indian Late Harvest Chenin Blanc (dessert Wine) is to enjoy a glass of your favorite vintage. I’ll uncork the velvety economics, hoping it’s not too dry, not too green, with nicely developed data tannins, ensuring a satisfying finish. I will set aside my volatile acidity. Washington, the home of airplanes, software and international trade, boasts the second-largest wine production in the United States. It’s a distant second behind California. For comparison, California produced 3.6 million tons of wine grapes in 2010 compared with Washington’s 160,000 tons. The Golden State corked 606 million gallons versus 25 million gallons here. A view of Kayoumi Vineyard in Upper Galilee, northern Israel. Carmel, which produces 100 percent kosher wines, has nearly 3,500 acres of vineyards ranging from Upper Galilee in the north to Negev in the south. Left, a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon from Covenant Wines vineyard in Napa Valley, Calif. Right, Carmel Winery's Carmel Mediterranean 2007 kosher wine. If you remember when kosher wine meant mostly cheap and sweet, you probably also know that the second part is no longer true. Today, there are plenty of quality kosher wines being made around the world. The syrupy kosher wines of the past stemmed mainly from economics. Jewish immigrants to America needed wine, a crucial part of their religious traditions, but didn't have access to high-quality grapes. So, they used the Concord grapes that grow in the Northeast, producing wines with an unpleasant character, usually describe as "foxy," masked by adding sugar.
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