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41Ancient Greece and wine — The influence of ancient Greece on wine is significant not only to the Greek wine industry but to the development of almost all European wine regions and to the history of wine itself. The importance that viniculture had in ancient Greek society… …
42Christie’s World Encyclopedia of Champagne & Sparkling Wine — by Tom Stevenson (published by Absolute Press) is famous for being the first book to publish the 17th century document proving that the English used a second fermentation to convert still wines into sparkling at least six years before Dom… …
43Christie's World Encyclopedia of Champagne & Sparkling Wine — Christie’s World Encyclopedia of Champagne Sparkling Wine   …
44Barley wine — or Barleywine is a style of strong ale originating in England in the nineteenth century (derived from the March or October beers of the 18th century) but now brewed worldwide. The first beer to be marketed as Barley Wine was Bass No. 1 Ale,… …
45settled on your lees — This is an old biblical idiom but still used. It refers to the lees (dregs, sediments) of wine or other liquids that settle in the bottom of the containing vessel if it is not disturbed. Hence, the idiom refers to someone or something that is at… …
46Fujian cuisine — (Chinese: 闽菜 POJ: Ban chhai or 福建菜 POJ: Hok kian chhai) is derived from the native cooking style of the province of Fujian, China. Fujian style cuisine is known to be light but flavourful, umami, soft, and tender, with particular emphasis on… …
47Kottabos — Cottabus player, red figure kylix, ca. 510 BC, Ancient Agora Museum in Athens. Kottabos (Ancient Greek: κότταβος) was a game of skill popular for a long time at ancient Greek and Etruscan symposia (drinking parties), especially in the 5th… …
48Ionic Greek — was a sub dialect of the Attic Ionic dialectal group of Ancient Greek (see Greek dialects).Ionic (or Ionian) dialect appears to have spread originally from the Greek mainland across the Aegean at the time of the Dorian invasions, around the 11th… …
491-heptanecarboxylic acid — OEnanthic [OE]*nan thic, a. [Gr. ? the first shoot of the vine, the vine blossom, the vine; o i nh the vine + ? bloom, a nqos flower.] (Chem.) Having, or imparting, the odor characteristic of the bouquet of wine; specifically used, formerly, to… …
50C6H13COOH — OEnanthic [OE]*nan thic, a. [Gr. ? the first shoot of the vine, the vine blossom, the vine; o i nh the vine + ? bloom, a nqos flower.] (Chem.) Having, or imparting, the odor characteristic of the bouquet of wine; specifically used, formerly, to… …
