No one complained of the white wine either: at this altitude of two thousand feet, grapes acquire a dryness and the tang of gunflint.

The preparations were elaborate: flowers, candles, incense sticks, rice wine, dozens of delicacies, and pieces of white cotton string.

Over-chilling is an accepted method for covering up the faults of many a cheap or poor white wine, especially a dry wine -- and certainly less of a crime than serving a wine at a temperature which reveals it as unattractive.

The fragrance and taste of any white wine will die a lingering death when it is allowed to warm or is exposed for long to the air.

Though there are many exceptions, which we have noted in preceding pages, white wine is as a rule best consumed between two and six years old, and red wines, nowadays, between three and ten.

Chardonnay socialist is a derogatory Australasian term used to describe those on the political left with comfortable middle or upper-class incomes, tertiary education, and a penchant for the finer things in life, Chardonnay being a form of white wine for example.

In 1398, records note that the earliest incarnation of Chianti was as a white wine.

It is typically a sweet red wine, but also comes in dry, semi-dry and white varieties.

Sherry is a fortified wine made from white grapes that are grown near the town of Jerez, Spain.

Garlic * and anchovies are used in many of the region's sauces, as in Poulet Provençal, which uses white wine, tomatoes, herbs, and sometimes anchovies, and Pastis is found everywhere that alcohol is served.

Kir, also called « Blanc-cassis », is a common and popular apéritif-cocktail made with a measure of crème de cassis ( blackcurrant liqueur ) topped up with white wine.

The word Kir Royal is used when white wine is replaced with a Champagne wine.

In North America, the most common grape juice is purple and made from Concord grapes while white grape juice is commonly made from Niagara grapes, both of which are varieties of native American grapes, a different species from European wine grapes.

Riesling and Silvaner are among the best-known varieties of white wine, while Spätburgunder and Dornfelder are important German red wines.

Some dishes can be traced back to ancient Greece: lentil soup, fasolada, retsina ( white or rosé wine flavored with pine resin ) and pasteli ( candy bar with sesame seeds baked with honey ); some to the Hellenistic and Roman periods: loukaniko ( dried pork sausage ); and Byzantium: feta cheese, avgotaraho ( cured fish roe ) and paximadi ( traditional hard bread baked from corn, barley and rye ).

Hungary has several wine regions producing among others the worldwide famous white dessert wine Tokaji and the red Bull ’ s Blood.

Vineyards in the Moselle Valley annually produce about 15 million litres of dry white wine, most of which is consumed within Luxembourg and also in Germany, France, and Belgium on a lesser scale.

In Switzerland, Merlot accounts for nearly 85 % of the wine production in Ticino where it is often made in a pale " white Merlot " style.

When asked what kind of bourbon she wants, she becomes flustered ( having only ordered the drink to show off how cosmopolitan she has become ) and orders a white wine spritzer instead.

* Pascal blanc, a French white wine grape

As we have already seen in the first chapter, bumblebees are bigger, hairier, and much more colorful than honeybees, exhibiting various combinations of black, yellow, white and orange.

In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.

Although Pen Saloth's family was of Sino-Khmer descent and Saloth Sar was named accordingly due to his fair complexion (" Sar " means white in Khmer ), the family had already assimilated themselves with mainstream Khmer society by the time Sar was born.

Slavery in Mauritania was finally criminalized in August 2007 It was already abolished in 1980 though it was still affecting the descendants of black Africans abducted into slavery before generations, who live now in Mauritania as " black Moors " or haratin and who partially still serve the " white Moors ", or bidhan ( the name means literally white-skinned people ), as slaves.

Just after sunrise on the day after the Sabbath three women, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, come to anoint Jesus ' body, wondering how they can roll the rock away from the tomb ; but they find the rock already rolled aside and a young man in white inside ; he tells them that Jesus is risen, and that they should tell Peter and the disciples that he will meet them in Galilee, " just as he told you.

If white people were already sitting in the front, black people had to board at the front to pay the fare, then disembark and reenter through the rear door.

Such ideas were incorporated into what was already an ongoing effort by some working in anthropology to provide scientific evidence for the superiority of Caucasians over non white races and justify European imperialism.

* The U. S. Navy's s were described as " white elephants " because the " tactical and strategic concepts that inspired them were completely outmoded " by the time they were commissioned – the Japanese heavy cruisers that they were designed to hunt down had already been destroyed.

Agnes Mongan has written of the portrait drawings: Before his departure in the fall of 1806 from Paris for Rome, the familiar characteristics of his drawing style were well established, the delicate yet firm contour, the definite yet discreet distortions of form, the almost uncanny capacity to seize a likeness in the precise yet lively delineation of features. The preferred materials were also already established: the sharply pointed graphite pencil on a smooth white paper.

At this time, his proof that white light was a combination of primary colours ( found via prismatics ) replaced the prevailing theory of colours and received an overwhelmingly favourable response, and occasioned bitter disputes with Robert Hooke and others, which forced him to sharpen his ideas to the point where he already composed sections of his later book Opticks by the 1670s in response.

Mickey Mouse was already black-colored, but the advertising poster for the film shows Mickey dressed in blackface with exaggerated, orange lips ; bushy, white sidewhiskers made out of cotton ; and his trademark white gloves.

Coinciding with the move to Gund Arena in the 1994 – 95 season, the Cavs changed logos and uniforms, adding black in addition to the already existing blue, orange and white colors.

Since the 1989 – 90 NBA season the Spurs uniform has remained practically the same, with the road uniform now using the team nickname from their logo ; a minor change included the addition of another black ( road ) and white ( home ) trim to the already silver-trimmed block numbers in the 2002 – 03 season.

This suggested that even before Majapahit era, the red and white colors already revered and used as kingdom's banner since Kediri era.

Edwin Forrest played a plantation black in 1823, and George Washington Dixon was already building his stage career around blackface in 1828, but it was another white comic actor, Thomas D. Rice, who truly popularized blackface.

Mickey, of course, was already black, but the advertising poster for the film shows Mickey with exaggerated, orange lips ; bushy, white sidewhiskers ; and his now trademark white gloves.

There was no white settlement in the area that became Wayne County until after 1794 due to the constant threat of Indian attack, who were already present.

The luma component already existed as the black and white signal ; they added the UV signal to this as a solution.

In close binary systems the more massive primary component evolves faster and has already become a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole, when the less massive companion reaches the giant state and exceeds its Roche lobe.

According to Stieg Larsson, a researcher of white supremacist organizations, the group was instead styled on the then already defunct US White supremacist group The Order, led by Robert Matthews.

From about the 11th or 12th century there was already extracted white sandstone in Bambrugge ( Steenberg ).

While the council was underway, a young man whose father had been killed rode up and announced that he and several other young men had already killed four white settlers.