Vine’s diseases As for humans the vine is a living being, sensitive to its environment thus exposed to external threats. Besides frost, hail and other climatic occurrences, caused by humans or not, vine is exposed to different diseases. This is what I am going to talk about this time, vine’s diseases that have always […]
Let me bring you to an adventure, far away, in a country that you may dream about (at least I dreamt about). I had the chance and the opportunity to visit it end of 2018. Let me bring you to Chile and most precisely in the Maule Valley south of Santiago. In this […]
While Normandy evokes some of the epic WWII’s battles and image of Mont-St-Michel. Normandy is also synonym of Calvados for spirit enthusiasts. The spirit has a singular story but to keep it short: The first mention of distilled cider appeared in 1553 in Gilles Picot Lord of Gouberville’s memorandum. The distilled-cider eau-de-vie took the name […]
Let’s start with a brief history of Jamaican Rum… First of all, to make rum you need sugar. This raw material was introduced to Jamaica in 1494 when the island was discovered by Christopher Columbus. When the British took over Jamaica in 1655, they brought with them their works and knowledges regarding rum distillation. There […]
For a wine novice like me, when I was told about Italian wines, I had in mind the most famous ones: the Prosecco or the Chianti. When I arrived at WiSP, other names were added to this list such as Montepulciano, Lambrusco until I met Emiliano STRATICO, our famous Argentine-Italian teacher who told us about […]
Emile Peynaud, the father of modern oenology, once said: “Wine is eternal, only the cork can kill it.” This quote shows the importance of the choice of closure to preserve the wine. For which market is the wine intended, what will its selling price be, what is its ageing potential, where does it come from, […]
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