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By the first 100 years A.D., wine was being exported from Italy to Spain, Germany, and France. It wasen't long before these countries ended up developing their own vineyards. Over the next few centries France had become the dominant producer of wines on the world market. Monastaries are known to have been reponsible for establishing several of the most sought after wines in the vineyards of France. Exploration and settlement brought wine to Mexico, Argentina, and South Africa in the 1500's and 1600's. Considered to be the father of the California Wine Industry, Jean-Louis Vignes planted the first European wine vines in northern California. He founded the Buena Vista Winery in 1857, which boasts 1,000 acres of vineyards in both Sonoma and Napa counties, and produces over half a million bottles of wine per year!
Made from fermented grape juice, wine is classified into 3 basic types: Natural, Sparkling, & Fortified. Natural wines may be Red, White, & Rose, and be classified in taste as Dry, Medium, or Sweet. Sparkling wines are given a 2nd fermatation in which added yeast eats up the sugar in the wine and produces carbon dioxide to give the wine a carbonated nature, much like soda pop. Tiny bubbles noticed in sparkling wines are from this natural process, while larger bubbles indicate carbon dioxide was added by machine. Fortified wines, such as Port, Sherry, Marsala, Vermouth, Maderia, Muscat, and Sangria, were made to have a longer shelf life. While there are spirits that are made from wine, the fortification process is created by when alcohol is added to the wine, thus killing the yeast before the fermintation process is completed, which leaves residual sugar. The higher levels of alcohol and sweetness help to preserve the wine longer. Wine is usually aged for several years in wood barrels, allowing the wood to influence the characteristics of the wine from taste, color, depth, complexity, and so on.
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Lone Oak Winery
2116 Fm 731, Burleson, TX 76028 Map
817 426-6625
Sunset Winery
1535 S Burleson Blvd, Burleson, TX 76028 Map
817 426-1141
Lightcatcher Winery
6925 Confederate Park Rd, Fort Worth, TX 76108 Map
817 237-2626
Cross Timbers Winery
805 N Main St, Grapevine, TX 76051 Map
817 488-6789
Farina's Winery
420 S Main St, Grapevine, TX 76051 Map
817 442-9095
Homestead Winery at Grapevine
211 E Worth St, Grapevine, TX 76051 Map
817 251-9463
Niebaum-Coppola Estate Winery
2811 Northwood St, Grapevine, TX 76051 Map
817 481-4335
Su Vino Winery
120 S Main St Ste 40, Grapevine, TX 76051 Map
817 424-0123
Mia Vino the Winery of Texas
2364 Hwy 287 North, Mansfield, TX 76063 Map
817 453-4848
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