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Sauteing peppers in cooking wine leaves you with a nice, zesty flavor and a dish that is a breeze to make. Saute peppers in cooking wine with help from a culinary professional in this free video clip.
It is a challenge to grow wine grapes in New England, but it is an attainable and rewarding goal. Choose grapes that ripen quickly during the short warm season and that are resistant to disease. Since crops are smaller and weather changes are drastic, a disease can destroy an entire harvest. Prepare your soil wisely, pick a hardy grape and tend to your garden properly to have a successful yield.
Grapes need to be crushed in a very particular way if you're going to be using them to make wine. Crush grapes for wine with help from the owner of Celebrations Wine Club in this free video clip.
Certain drinks pair exceptionally well with a delicious plate of lasagna. Learn about the best drink to go with lasagna with help from a professional sommelier, beverage director, and wine educator in this free video clip.
Brie-stuffed dates go really well with certain types of specially selected wines. Learn about an ideal wine pairing for brie-stuffed dates with help from a professional sommelier, beverage director, and wine educator in this free video clip.
Making a port wine spritzer requires just the right ingredients and the appropriate mixing technique. Make a port wine spritzer with help from a professional sommelier, beverage director, and wine educator in this free video clip.
Not all wines are going to go well with a delicious trout mousse. Pair wine with trout mousse with help from a professional sommelier, beverage director, and wine educator in this free video clip.
Shrimp remoulade is a sort of oil or mayonnaise-based condiment flavored shrimp. Find out how to pair wine with shrimp remoulade with help from a professional sommelier, beverage director, and wine educator in this free video clip.
Certain types of wine can really add a lot when cooking with risotto. Find out about a good wine to cook with risotto with help from a professional sommelier, beverage director, and wine educator in this free video clip.
Pecan crusted tilapia goes great with a few key types of wine. Learn about pecan crusted tilapia wine pairings with help from a professional sommelier, beverage director, and wine educator in this free video clip.
Certain cheese go absolutely perfectly with a nice Cabernet wine. Learn about the top three cheeses to pair with Cabernet wine with help from the founder of The Cheese Store in Beverly Hills in this free video clip.
A fitting wine selection can enrich the flavors and experience of an already delicious meal. The exact wines that you can enjoy with your meals will depend on several factors including your personal taste and the preparation of the meal. Veal chops can be cooked in a number of ways to preserve and enhance the delicate natural flavors, but a suitable wine can be found for each method. Veal is lean and can easily be overcooked, so moist-heat cooking methods are preferred.
A few types of wine go perfectly with wilted spinach and scallops. Pair wine with wilted spinach and scallops with help from a chef and culinary instructor in this free video clip.
Pairing Merlot with food requires a lot more than just picking your favorite dish. Pair Merlot with food with help from a chef and culinary instructor in this free video clip.
When eating German food you'll need to pay close attention to the type of wine you buy. Pair wine with German food with help from a chef and culinary instructor in this free video clip.
Scores of varieties of wild grape vines are indigenous to the United States as well as all of North America. They therefore do not need to be domesticated as they are already native, and acclimated to our soils. They can be cultivated though if you wish to grow some on your property. The fruit is smaller and more tart than propagated varieties you would purchase from a grocer, but wild grapes can be used for juices, jellies and desserts. They can be cultivated by seed, or more commonly by cuttings.
When choosing a wine to drink with pear pie you'll want to consider a few key things. Find out about what wine to drink with pear pie with help from a past president of the Napa Valley Vintners Association in this free video clip.
You may not think wine and chili are two things that go well together, but they definitely are. Pair wine and chili with help from a past president of the Napa Valley Vintners Association in this free video clip.
When pairing a wine with a food you have to keep a few specific things in mind. Learn how to pair wine with turkey and apricots with help from a past president of the Napa Valley Vintners Association in this free video clip.
Mustang grape vines grow in warm climates, such as Texas and Louisiana. They thrive in USDA Hardiness Zone 7. With white flowers and dark berries, they are an attractive addition to a garden but they grow up to 40 feet and take up a lot of space. If you want to landscape your yard, you might need to remove the Mustang grapes to allow more sunshine below the plant and give yourself more room to work.
The Emerson wine cooler is a small refrigerator specifically designed to store and cool red and white wine. Meant for home use, the wine cooler requires proper installment and operating procedures to work efficiently, including a 5-inch clearance on each side and on the rear of the cooler from other objects or surfaces. The Emerson wine cooler must also be plugged into an electrical outlet that can supply adequate voltage intake and amp output so it can cool appropriately.
Joe Campanale and Jordan Salcito shed some light on the best Thanksgiving wines, so by the time you’re done basting roasting and carving, you’ll be ready to mix and mingle with a full glass in hand.
Sweet, spiced and everything nice, mulled wine is a wonderful way to warm up your red wine this time of year. Grab some cinnamon, cloves, vanilla bean and whatever else might fit your fancy because it’s mulling time.
Perfect for large groups or impromptu parties, this champagne punch is one of Joe Campanale’s favorite things for entertaining. A simple concoction of muddled fruit, brandy and champagne, we’re fairly convinced you have all the ingredients in-house already.
You’ve made your truffles and invited your guests, but you’re still in the wine aisle wondering which dessert wine pairing is best. Heather Bertinetti and Jordan Salcito give quick to bring the best bottle to the table.
Few types of seafood reflect their native waters more clearly than oysters. Oysters of the same species, grown in bays only a short distance apart, can have notably different and distinctive flavors. This reflection of origin, often referred to as the French winemaking term "terroir," makes oysters a fascinating ingredient for enthusiasts. Raw oysters pair well with crisp whites, but oyster stew is more variable and can be matched in different ways.
As far back as the murals of Pompeii, a Roman city destroyed by a volcano in 79 A.D., people have decorated their homes with art celebrating grapes and wine. Clusters of grapes, grapes hanging from the vine, vineyards, wine pouring from a bottle into a glass and all the lush colors of wine, from palest gold to deepest purple offer a range of possibilities for your kitchen. Antique and vintage decorating touches can add to this look.
Pruning a grape vine isn't simply a matter of cutting away unwanted vines that cascade from the trellis. Cutting back too much wood pushes the grape vine into producing more foliage than fruit the next season, while pruning too little forces the grape vine to spend energy supporting the growth rather than storing its excess energy in large, plentiful grape bunches. Knowing when, where and how to cut back your grape vine is key to a good harvest.
Adding grape vines to your landscaping offers multiple benefits. Not only will you be rewarded with fresh fruit from your back yard, but grape leaves and vines provide a unique and decorative appearance. Introducing colorful or dyed mulch can enhance the appearance of your grape vines and help deter weed growth.
Grapes are one of the easiest fruiting plants to grow in the home garden and, besides producing edible fruit, are attractive plants to cover garden trellises, fences or walls. Grapevine varieties exist for almost all climate areas, and the plants are tolerant of wide swings in soil pH. Grapes are available at home and garden centers as potted plants or in the early spring as bare root vines. Although planting grapes is easy, you may need to amend the soil in the fall to create healthy growing conditions for the plants in the following spring.
Google provides a free local business listing service, known as Google Places for Business. People searching Google for nearby restaurants will see your restaurant’s listing, whether they’re using the main Google search page or Google Maps. You can provide an enticing description, categories, photos, videos and other detailed information to help guests find your restaurant. Google verifies each listing with a phone call, text message or postcard sent to the phone number or address associated with your restaurant.
Wine is a program for Linux that enables you to emulate software that is only available on the Windows operating system. Using Wine, you can install the foobar2000 music management software on your Linux computer. The Wine Headquarters website indicates that most of foobar2000 functions properly on Linux as of this publication. In particular, media management and playback controls are fully functional for the stable version of foobar2000.
Muscadine grape vines can be trained to grow over an arbor or fence to hold the vines up off the ground. However, installing a wire trellis makes vine maintenance and grape harvesting much easier. They can be grown on a single- or double-wire trellis, although a double-wire trellis will result in higher fruit production.
Grapes make a welcome addition to any garden, for both the fruit they produce and their attractive form. Grape vines typically begin producing fruit in their third year. They are especially long-lived in the right conditions, fruiting for 25 to 100 years. Annual pruning grape vines maintains their form and improves the fruits’ size and quality. The technique called cane pruning is recommended for table grapes and for noncommercial wine grapes. This works well with a trellis, where fruiting canes are trained horizontally along taut wire strung between posts.
Grapes can be eaten fresh or used to make juice, wine and preserves. But when the growing season is over, grape vines still require care. Pruning and careful training are as important as proper nutrition to a healthy grape harvest the following year. Since grapes can grow aggressively, they are generally pruned back once they go dormant at the end of each growing season.
Form dry grape vines into wreaths or garlands to make fall decorations. Grape vines benefit from hard pruning at the end of the season, and the landscape benefits from pruning wild grapes so they do not encroach on trees and shrubs strangling them out. Decorate grape vine wreaths and garlands with natural dried herbs, flowers, grasses, seed pods or other natural items.
Grape vines in the backyard not only provide fruit you can eat raw or cook for jellies and jams, but create an attractive focal point with their lush foliage and fruit clusters. When trained to spread and grow along an overhead arbor or trellis, grape vines produce dense shade and natural color. Follow good cultural practices to keep young grape vines alive and encourage them to establish healthy roots. Once established, the prolific producers will reward you with one to two bushels of fruit per vine, depending on the variety.
Many people choose wine based on the label or the bottle, particularly if they have yet to learn the differences in wine. Once the wine is finished, you may wish to keep the bottle to for other uses. Clean, empty wine bottles may be reused with other liquids, kept as a vase or candle holder, or for more creative projects, such as a garden plot border. Whatever the use, labels may be removed without scratching or disfiguring the bottle.
Alcohol is usually found in some form of solution. A bottle of rubbing alcohol typically contains 70 percent isopropyl alcohol by volume. Beers usually have about 5 percent alcohol, while wines have a somewhat higher concentration of alcohol of 10 percent or more. High concentrations of alcohol destroy the yeast that promotes fermentation, so beverages with more alcohol than wine have to be distilled from a fermented liquid to increase the alcohol content. There are several methods of testing the alcoholic content of a solution. Most involve comparing specific gravities before and after fermentation or distillation, but some use other…
The concord grape (Vitis labrusca Concord) is a cold-hardy grape native to North America. Although it can grow in USDA Zone 5a with winter temperatures of minus 15 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit, it also requires a sufficient growing season. Concord grapes usually require a minimum of 150 days to mature and ripen. They may survive your winters but you’ll never get to harvest grapes if they don't get a chance to ripen.
Grassy weed control is essential for a productive grape crop. Grass presents serious problems for grapevines when they're left to compete with the crop for soil nutrients, moisture, airflow and sunlight. Further, grass offers pests like insects and fungal diseases a hospitable environment to flourish and spread. Treating grapevines growing in dense grass growth is difficult because sprays from herbicides or fungicides are unable to adequately cover the grape plants. Use the right herbicides and cultural methods to prevent harm to grapevines.
Grapes are sweet, refreshing and versatile; they can be made into wine, juice, raisins or eaten just as they are. Wonderful as this fruit is, some vines can become invasive and cause problems for homeowners. Most invasive vines are native to the U.S. and belong to the Vitis species. In addition to the native species, there is one non-native invasive called the porcelain-berry.
Grapes grow well in home gardens with proper support. A trellis system holds the vines upright, which simplifies pruning and harvest while ensuring the vines grow properly. The fruit remains off the ground, and the entire plant is easily accessed for general maintenance. A pole support system holds up a single row of grapevines while taking up minimal garden space. The poles hold up the wires supporting the vines. Any type of sturdy poles work well, including fence supports or metal stakes.
Growing grapes can be a challenging but rewarding experience, especially if you make your own wine. Non-vintners can also enjoy grapes in jams and pies. Grapes grow best when the soil pH is between 5.0 and 6.0. To perform well, they also require the addition of soil nutrients each year. When planting grapes, choose a spot with well-draining soil, as standing water will kill your vines.
Grapevines grow for up to 50 years, with long, climbing vines, hanging foliage and lush fruit harvests. One vine may take up to 20 feet in the outdoor garden, while multiple plantings become overwhelming. If you want to grow grapevines without the large space and time commitment, create bonsai vines with controlled potted situations, a small trellis and consistent pruning.
Mulching grape vines can increase yield and improve vine vigor without adding other nutrients to the soil. It also keeps weeds from growing, conserves moisture and reduces erosion. Although some gardeners believe that cedar mulch contains allelopathic chemicals that keep seeds from germinating or growing well, Master Gardener Linda Chalker-Scott at Washington State University writes that cedars do not have this ability. On the contrary, cedar mulch offers several advantages. Using black-dyed cedar mulch is another issue.
Grapes are one of the oldest cultivated crops. Grown for their clusters of sweet, juicy fruits, grapes are eaten raw, or made into wine, jellies, juice and other culinary delights. Grapevines need full sun during their fruiting cycle, although they can still bear fruit in areas with partial sun. However, the more sun the grapevines receive, the plumper, juicer, sweeter and more abundant the grape clusters are.
Whether red or white, wine tastes best when it is served at its optimal temperature. Electric wine coolers conveniently chill a bottle of wine to a specified temperature setting. These coolers range from a single-bottle chiller to units the size of a small refrigerator for cooling several bottles at once. Whichever style you choose to purchase, proper use will keep you safe and extend the life of your wine cooler. Proper use includes the placement of the cooler.
If there's a wine lover you need a gift for, consider a creative wine stopper. Purchase a bottle of wine and pair it with a personalized or novelty wine stopper. The cork stoppers in most wine bottles aren't recommended for reuse because they don't create an air-tight seal after being removed. That causes wine to oxidize and taste bitter. Also, bits of cork can drop into the wine if that stopper is forced back into a bottle.
The romantic image of the wine cart was portrayed by artists in the 1800s. As wine carts grew in popularity in the areas surrounding Rome, wine transporters were depicted rolling through rural settings, sitting happily atop their loaded carts under the shade of a canopy. In reality, rolling heavy wine carts from country vineyards to Rome was not an easy job for the transporters, who were considered lower class in Rome.
