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The wine question of the day

What do you call the space between the surface of the poured wine and the top rim of a wine glass?

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Production forms (organic, energetic, biodynamic), plant protection methods and organic associations

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Wine containers - around 125 terms from Albeisa to Dame-Jeanne and key-keg to tub

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The largest wine encyclopedia in the world with 26,115 Terms.

Have you ever wondered?

Millot-Foch

The wine question of the day

What do you call the space between the surface of the poured wine and the top rim of a wine glass?

Correct answer is: Chimney

Chimney

Themes Portals

Gesamtextrakt - around 50 substances from different types of alcohol to anthocyanins, aromatic compounds, glycerine, carbon dioxide and phenols to types of acidity, sulphur and sugars

more than 50 techniques from Alberata, gobelet, bush vine, Guyot, Kouloura, lyre and pergola to vertico

Around 70 rankings and hit lists in viticulture that leave no questions unanswered

Systematic analysis of vine species - around 20 species of vine from vitis acerifolia to vitis aestivalis, vitis cinerea, vitis riparia and vitis rupestris to vitis vinifera and vitis vulpina

The effects on viticulture in countries affected

Production forms (organic, energetic, biodynamic), plant protection methods and organic associations

Wine containers - around 125 terms from Albeisa to Dame-Jeanne and key-keg to tub

Jahrhundertwein - around 140 outstanding top-ranked wines from 55 estates such as, e.g. Château Cheval Blanc, Château d’Yquem, Château Latour, Château Pétrus, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Egon Müller-Scharzhof, Kracher Weinlaubenhof and F. X. Pichler

Production volumes of wine - production volumes (hectolitres) and vineyard areas (hectares) in all approximately 100 wine-producing countries

of 70 famous people from Beethoven to Luther, Mozart and Napoleon to Tut-Ench-Amun

From Albarese to granite, limestone, loess, sand and Terra Rossa to volcanic rock

Wine-related institutions - more than 50 from the American Wine Society to ECOVIN, INAO, Masters of Wine and ÖWM to VDP, Austrian Wine Academy, WSET and Cape Wine Academy

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