Cooper
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A cooper readies the end of a barrel at the Van Ryn Brandy Cellar near Stellenbosch, South Africa ...
Cooperative (French term)
A cooperative is usually a local winery owned and often run by a group of local winemakers.
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Cooperage - A term that refers to the wooden barrels, vats and containers used in winemaking. These vary dramatically in size from small barrels to huge vats. The term can also be used to refer to the shop where a cooper performs his work.
Cooperative: A winery owned jointly by multiple grape growers.
Corked: A wine with musty, mushroomy aromas and flavors resulting from a cork tainted by TCA (trichloroanisol).
Cooper
One who makes or repairs wooden barrels or casks.
Corked or Corky
A moldy odor and flavor caused from a fungus-infected cork, caused by tiny amounts of tyrene that contaminate the wine.
Cooperage. Common term in general use to describe any container used for aging and storing wine - includes barrels and tanks of all sizes ...
Cooperative
A central processing facility where vineyard owners can take their grapes to be made into wine and or bottled. Usually owned by the members, it is a way to reduce the cost of wine making for the smaller producer.
COOPERAGE
Describes any container used for aging and storing wine - includes barrels and tanks of all sizes
COPIDA
A type of glass used for Sherry in Spain, but also used by wine tasters.
Cooper Cooler
This is a cool technology chiller for multiple beverages. It combines ice and water in a bottle rotating machine with push button controls. Generally, it takes about six minutes for a 750ml bottle of wine to chill.
Cooper: Someone who makes wooden barrels, casks, and other similar wooden objects.
Garagiste: One who makes wine in a garage (or basement, or home, etc.)-in other words, an amateur wine maker.
Cooper:A wine barrel maker.
Cooperage:The facility where wine barrels are made.
Corkage Fee:The fee charged by restaurants when guests bring their own bottle of wine rather than ordering from the wine list.
The purpose of this cooperative was to set production limits in order to avoid over productions and, as a consequence, to set minimum prices for wines.
cantina socialeAn Italian term for a cooperative winery. capThe mass of skins, pips and other solid matter that rises to the surface of the wine during alcoholic fermentation.
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Given that approximately 70 million cubic feet of cooperage oak was felled last year from the state of Missouri alone, can we expect that American oak will continue to be available in the long term?
Some red table wines appreciate in quality, developing less astringency and colour, and a greater complexity of flavour with aging in oak cooperage of up to 500-gallon size for two to three years.
Cooperative
A cooperative is a winery collectively owned and operated by many small producers or growers.
Cork
The traditional stopper for wine bottles. Cork may come from the bark of the cork tree or be made out of plastic.
The wines at Cantina Tramin are recommended across the board, as this cooperative deals with the finest growers in the area of Tramin.
The two main families of oak used for wine cooperage are American and European. Merryvale uses French oak exclusively.
Once a fortified border-town between France and the fiefdom of the Burgundy dukes, today it is a lively industrial settlement which dwarfs the sleepy villages to the north, and it is home to many cellars, coopers, ...
The Romans also developed wooden cooperage, a great advance for wine storage which had previously been done in skins or jars. They may also have been the first to use glass bottles, as glassblowing became more common during this era.
Bloom and set were also two weeks ahead of schedule, but the weather cooperated and the set was good. From June on, the growing season was just the opposite of '91, being warm enough to ripen the fruit and to lead to an early harvest.
Flavor can also vary, depending on the manner of cooperage, or barrel-making. Wooden barrels also allow a degree of oxidation that can mellow a wine.
Wine coop / Vinegrowers' cooperative : Cellar run in common by a group of vine growers. Over a 1 000 coop vinify about 30% of French production.
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Arrufiac or Ruffiac, white grape variety from Gascony. Virtually its only home is the Plaimont Cooperative, where it is well treated and rewards by offering additional depth of flavour to their Côtes de St Mont.
Staves
oak plant dried in open air before pieced together by cooper and transformed into barrel
Steely
applied to top Riesling for the very dry, almost metallic flavor they develop ...
Earlier mistaken to be Code di Volpe nero.
A cooperation under the name Vestini Campagnano produces the grape commercially. The grape is said to give very powerful wines with high content of tannins.
" Most of the miscellaneous stuff has been drunk by now, but Mr. Nelson has held on to the case of Port. Now that he has two sons, Cooper, who was born in 1996, and Reece, who was born last September, Mr. Nelson wants to lay some wines down for them.
In part is the smoky flavor imparted and also the actual coopering methods used. Many other countries make oak barrels including Yugoslavia, Germany, America, Australia and other Eastern European Oaks.
Does he or she have any good contacts wine industry suppliers, distribution or media?
Is he or she a people person? Outgoing? Creative? Cooperative? Would he or she be a good public relations asset?
Where is the barrel from? What regional variations have occurred with oak sourced from different forests? How was it dried? How was it toasted? What standard practices are employed by the cooperage that made the barrel?
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