Dont Let Your Growing Wine Collection Bring You Down
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Aug-20-2011
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Wine is a delightful and versatile drink, produced in hundreds of millions of cases around the world each year, with over 20 million acres of land used to farm them, and over 10000 varieties of grape to choose from. Regions used for winemaking are traditional locations such as Mediterranean Europe, alongside New World wine locations such as California and South Africa.
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Wine is a delightful and versatile drink, produced in hundreds of millions of cases around the world each year, with over 20 million acres of land used to farm them, and over 10000 varieties of grape to choose from. Regions used for winemaking are traditional locations such as Mediterranean Europe, alongside New World wine locations such as California and South Africa.
Prominent winemaking regions share a few things in common; the need for lots of sunlight and for the right soil conditions.
Wine is made from grapes, which are grown in vineyards, and depending on the seasonal conditions and continent, are harvested at a certain time of the year. Once the winemaker decides the grapes are ready, they are harvested for processing.
The grapes are crushed, and with red wines the skin is kept, and for white wines the skin is removed. Once crushed, the grape content is allowed to ferment in winemaking equipment, by the induction of yeast, which breaks down the sugar content in the grapes, creating carbon dioxide and alcohol. Once fermentation is completed, the wine is aged in barrels, and, at some point the liquid is isolated from the skin and seed pulp. After aging, the wine is bottled, and allowed to age further until the wine is deemed ready for consumption.
The number of variables involved in making wine (ie. Grape variety, climate conditions, fermenting and aging time, amongst many others) ensure that no single harvest is ever exactly the same, so there are many different tasting wines out there. Additionally, wine is a dynamic drink, which is constantly changing, even once it is bottled. This naturally means that there is a time for a given grape, location and harvest, for when a given bottle of wine is prime for drinking, and at its most valuable.
If you are just starting a wine collection, or if you are already an established a wine enthusiast, then knowing when your wine is at its best to drink is extremely useful information. This is especially the case if you have a large cellar, with a growing wine collection, and are looking to get the most out of it.
Having a disorganised cellar can cost you money and cause much stress for busy people. To help with this challenge, there is now excellent wine tracking software, which helps you manage and organise your wine collection quickly and conveniently, helping you know when your wine is best to drink.
Other information, such as ratings on different harvests, gives informed advice from a community of wine-lovers, to help you gain experience on the myriad of different wines out there. Conversely, you can also share your knowledge and experience with other enthusiasts.
A cellar tracker takes the information on the wines you own, and organises them according to origin, grape type, age cellar life, current value and peak to name only a few. Doing this all on your own can be daunting for a large collection, and so wine tracking software keeps you on top of things, so you can focus on enjoying the wine you own, instead of becoming frustrated.
Virtual applications allow you to see your collection visually to make things easier, and there are also applications for smart-phones, allowing you to update and manage your wine no matter where you are. All in all, a cellar tracker offers great value for money, and will pay for itself, by preventing you from losing money by having a poorly-run cellar.
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cellar tracker, wine tracking software,
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