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Monte Belmonte Wines: “Hard” cider is basically apple wine

Monte Belmonte Wines: “Hard” cider is basically apple wine

by Monte Belmonte | Nov 27, 2018 | Columns, Featured, Monte Belmonte Wines

From a fermentation perspective, your traditional “hard” cider is basically apple wine. It certainly isn’t beer. No hops. No malts. Just apple juice and the magical yeast that turns sugar into alcohol. So, I hope you’ll indulge me in this, a wine column, as I write...
Monte Belmonte Wines: Glendale Ridge Vineyard

Monte Belmonte Wines: Glendale Ridge Vineyard

by Monte Belmonte | Nov 8, 2018 | Columns, Featured, Monte Belmonte Wines

The sound was terrifying. It was like nothing I’ve ever heard in the Valley. Was it the high-pitched, piercing shriek of a machine, desperately in need of lubrication? No. It was birds. Thousands of birds. A scene and a sound straight out of the Hitchcock movie....
Monte Belmonte Wines: Wineing at Gypsy Apple

Monte Belmonte Wines: Wineing at Gypsy Apple

by Monte Belmonte | Oct 11, 2018 | Columns, Featured, Monte Belmonte Wines

“It’s a white boys’ game, dude. When I first went to take the somm exam, I had this idea that there is going to be one other black person there and it’s going to be a woman. And there’ll be, like, two Indian guys and everyone else will be white. There was actually one...
Monte Belmonte Wines: Vino Volo – A Wine Flight Guide 

Monte Belmonte Wines: Vino Volo – A Wine Flight Guide 

by Monte Belmonte | Oct 26, 2018 | Columns, Featured, Monte Belmonte Wines

Airports are not known for elegance. They exist in a particular hell, somewhere between a hospital and the Registry of Motor vehicles. Bad food, bad lighting, an unwelcome groping from a TSA agent: all to ready ourselves as we prepare to experience the miracle of...
Monte Belmonte Wines: Day Drinking – Solving The Problems of the World

Monte Belmonte Wines: Day Drinking – Solving The Problems of the World

by Monte Belmonte | Sep 17, 2018 | Columns, Featured, Monte Belmonte Wines

Some of the greatest ideas in human history were concocted while cocked. Allegedly, Grant won the Civil War while entirely inebriated. Kruschev avoided war while gently jingled. And Iron Butterfly wrote their biggest hit, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, while thoroughly...
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