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Figure 1. Sala Vivé Semi Seco Introduction Dolores Sala Vivé co-founded Freixenet in Spain with her husband Pedro Ferrer Bosch. The winery history claims that the sparkling wine was made in homage to her, the “Grande Dame of Sparkling Wine” (salavive website, 2010). The winery itself is in the Mexican state of Querétaro (see salavive [...]
Figure 1. Wyndham Estate Bin 444 Cabernet Sauvignon Introduction Wyndham Estates, located in the renowned Hunter Valley of NSW, Australia, pride themselves on the intensity of their wines (see Wyndham estate website, 2010). They classify their cheaper wines by “Bin” followed by a triple digit number, which designates the grape varietal. Cabernet sauvignon, the grape [...]