Head
The end of the cigar that goes in the mouth.
HHS
A manufacturing term describing a natural wrapper.
Head North to Santa Rosa
Before leaving Sonoma and heading north, a pleasant diversion is to another historic winery, Gundlach Bundschu, which is south of town off Napa Road.
Head northwest out of Chinon, past the huge golf ball-like structure of the EDF Centre Nucléaire, across the Loire and you will quickly arrive in Bourgueil.
1 head cauliflower
2 cloves garlic
2 tablespoons good olive oil
1 large fresh tomato or 3 fresh plum tomatoes
Sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
4 ounces penne, ziti or other short pasta ...
cap, head
Solid mass made up mainly of the skins which floats on the surface of the must/wine during fermentation.
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Tip your head back, take a sip, wait 2.2 seconds and decide what you think about the wine. It can be that easy!! Sometimes we forget that wine can be enjoyed at many levels! ...
Pruning a head trained vine.
Just before the beginning of warmer weather, while the ground is often still muddy from Winter snow and rain (note the attire), ...
Always allow head room in your fermentor as the wine has a tendancy to foam in the early stages. A two gallon bucket for a one gallon batch.
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Spur-pruned (head-pruned) vines are usually found in older vineyards. Spurs are the canes (branches) trimmed back to only a pair of buds. Each bud will become a shoot which grows to a cane that bears the crop.
ullage is the head space between wine and the top of a container such as a barrel or bottle. If it is excessive it can cause oxidation.
vieilles vignes - French for 'old vines', which generally produce more concentrated wine than young ones.
Mousse:The frothy head that forms at the surface of sparkling wine.
Monopole: Used to denote a vineyard owned exclusively by one proprietor, the word monopole appears on the label of a wine made from such a vineyard.
Instead of head training, however, a permanent branch, or 'cordon', is trained along a wire on one side of the vine.
When I picked up this bottle, a number of bright red alerts, and sirens, went off in my head.
When we take a sniff of the wine in the glass, we suck up the volatiles in the head-space of the glass. These molecules then dissolve in the mucus and pass through it until they reach the cilia. The next step is a crucial one.
With budbreak occurring a month early, the vineyards went into bloom with a full head of steam and came out with an early and great set and a big looking crop. Except for one hot week in August, the summer days and nights was consistent and moderate.
Claus realized that the shape of the glass, while dictating emission of aroma, also dictates how a person positions their head while drinking, ultimately altering the way the wine flows into their mouth.
While some people think it's fun, especially in a blind tasting, to have inexpensive and expensive wines going head-to-head, that's usually designed as a kind of "gotcha" that makes wine into an obnoxious, adolescent parlor game instead of a pleasant, ...
Bad news is often delivered over a drink, good news is often celebrated by having a few drinks - we drink to "wet the baby's head" to celebrate a birth.
We are hit upon the head with the pH thing. It is expressed to us in complexities that instill fear and boggle our minds. Small wonder that some of the more conservative amongst us are crying STOP! Enough is enough! Don't even tell me about pH! ...
Literally, French for "head blend." The term is unofficial, but is often used to mean the top of the line from any Champagne house. For example Dom Perignon is the tete du cuvee from Moet.
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The new Zinfandel vines are dry-farmed and head pruned. We expect highly concentrated wines from this low yielding style of farming with the first vintage planned for 2001.
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Then we head to the closest loft for a party to lament the current actions by the US government / NATO / Walmart. Of course, even anti-warmongers get hungry and thirsty, and what better way to support the cause then to bring some wine?
Even better, tilt the head forward so that the wine is behind the front teeth and then slurp air into the mouth over the wine. This seems weird at first, and goes against everything your mother taught you to do at the table, but it's worth it.
Mousse: The foam, or head, on the surface of a sparkling wine.
Mousseux, -euse: adj. Sparkling, bubbly; n.m. sparkling wine.
In an era of winery owners who strut like peacocks bragging about their wine, the head of Vega Sicilia, 55-year-old Pablo Alvarez, is shy and unassuming, ...
ADJUNCTS: Can be used to reduce the cost of beers, add flavour, improve head retention and lower the nitrogen content to avoid hazes. Examples include flaked rice, sugar, maize, oats and wheat syrup.
[3] David Molyneux-Berry, former head of Sotheby's wine department was hired as a consultant, and several forensic investigations were conducted on the wines, bottles and engravings; ...
Also produces fine red wines in California, Chile, Australia, Argentina and in many other regions where it is often blended with its cousin, Cabernet Sauvignon. However, it must also be said that in head to head competitions, ...
The part of the cigar between the foot and the head.
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Red wine glasses have a decent range to them these days, going from a minimum of 8 ounces to a maximum of right around 14 ounces. However, the standard red wine pour is 5 ounces, no matter what the glass size is. The rest of the head space in the ...
Toward this end, modern bottling lines purge oxygen from the empty bottles prior to filling and automatically calibrate fill levels to minimize the head space in the bottle between the wine and the cork.
Among the many synonyms Catarratto bertolaro by Bertola, that is plenty for its high productivity and Catarratto Corteddaro from cortedala (head). The variety is present in all of Sicily, with particular concentration in the province of Trapani.
OFF ODORS - May include smells that are unpleasant, but usually limited to wine flaws such as the pungency of Sulfur Dioxide (like a burnt match head), Hydrogen Sulfide (rotten eggs), cork taint (like a moldy cellar), vinegar, ...
Roll it around on your tongue and tilt your head back just slightly to let the wine wash over your taste buds and feel its weight.
 See also: Wine, Red, Fruit, Grape, White
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