Grape Light
The grape consists of three primary elements, the skin, the pulp, and the seeds. The skin is actually several layers of material: the bloom, a wax and cutin layer that prevents dehydration of the berry and the epidermis, which contains the pigments and tannins so important to wine color, structure, and flavor. The pulp is a grouping of about 40 veined cells that are connected in a vascular network to a central structure known as the brush, which connects the inner part of the grape to the little bit of stem known as the pedicel which in turn connects the berry to the cluster. The seeds (most often one or two), are connected to the same vascular network as the pulp, and vary in size and shape depending on the variety of the vine. -- The Oxford Companion to Wine
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“Los resultados de un nuevo estudio desvelan, que consumir alcohol, aunque sea una copa de vino al día, es suficiente para aumentar el riesgo de cáncer.
Son las conclusiones de una investigación llevada a cabo con más de un millón de mujeres, según la cual el consumo de alcohol, aunque sea moderado, está asociado al menos 13% de los cánceres de mama, hígado, recto y tracto aerodigestivo superior.
En concreto los investigadores afirman que cerca de 5.000 casos de cáncer de mama en el Reino Unido -o sea 11% de los 45.000 casos diagnosticados cada año- pueden atribuirse al consumo de alcohol en las mujeres.
De hecho el riesgo incluso aumenta a medida que se incrementa el consumo de alcohol ya sea en licores, vino o cerveza.
El consumo de una copa al día, dicen los autores, aumenta el riesgo de todos los tipos de cáncer en 6% en las mujeres de hasta 75 años.”
Llego a través de ade tan interesante noticia. Decir que el Islam prohibe el uso del bioetanol por su fermentación alcohólica es como decir que el Catolicismo veta las productoras de látex, por su relación con la industria de los preservativos. El Islam abarca desde la toda la costa norte de África, bañada por el Atlántico y el Mediterráneo, hasta un poco más alla de la frontera con China, pasando por la antigua Persia, India y los recovecos de la ruta de la seda, además de extenderse en comunidades minoritarias por el resto del mundo Occidental. Con esta sencilla premisa no es difícil deducir que el Islam abarca a millones de personas y, por ende, millones de formas de ver el mundo, luego no es el Islam en este caso lo que prohibe el consumo del bioetanol, sino las interpretaciones Coránicas de un clérigo de Arabia Saudí, recordemos , el pais que produce la mayor parte del petróleo, ergo carburantes, de todo el globo. Si ahora un murciano inventara un motor de agua de bien seguro que algun experto de Arabia Saudí nos avisaría del grave peligro que corre el planeta si esos motores diabólicos que emiten H2O se popularizaran.
Para sus declaraciones al periódico Shams, Mohamed al-Najimi de la Academia Saudí de Jurisprudencia Islámica, que estará bajo la potestad de los Al-Saud, podría haber apelado al humanismo intrínseco del Islam-verdadero, y no del Islam-político-económico, para argüir que la producción de esos carburantes con almidones que podrian utilizarse para frenar la hambruna en el mundo es, como poco, algo inmoral. En lugar de eso ha argumentado una chapuza. ¿Pero de verdad alguien ha creído la escusa barata del contenido alcoholico del bioetanol? ¿Acaso alguien cree que en los hospitales de Arabia Saudí no utilizan alcohol para curar heridas?
Más de una o de uno estaría encantado con tener una pareja cuya erección durase más de unas horas. Imaginaos entonces si esta erección durase más de 6 días. Es el caso de Antonio Rosa, un joven dominicano de 23 años. La mezcla de alcohol y estimulantes sexuales han convertido el empalme de este hombre en noticia.
As a lover of wine and liberty, I am all for this! I’m not sure how many retailers would take up the opportunity, but why not put it out there for the market to decide? Kansas City is a !
You have to flip the upside-down and SLOWLY run the sink over it and use a soft rag to wipe it NOT A PAPER TOWEL.
Another way, though only I do this is to get a ball and wet it slightly with , then get a soft, clean rag OR PAPER TOWEL and SLOWLY the disc off. You can also use a sink instead of alcohol, but put your through the disc hole CAREFULLY to where the cover side is facing away from your hand, then rinse it with ( this prevents water from getting in the little tiny line between the clear plastic-like rings that form the hole in the center.
Sometimes it is just so annoying when people are pretending to know everything and frown upon us mortals who just enjoy the wine for what it is.
The joke is that most of these snobs learned their annoying behavior from other snobs and not from true wine experts. So it is more a behavioral (pretending) thing than a wine appreciation thing .
Alex Renton from The Times wrote a lovely article about these wine snobs. He writes:
A good way is to give people who think they know their wine a white and a light red to taste from black glasses. (If you lack this essential piece of crockery a blindfold may be used.) If the wines are both the same temperature and the subjects are allowed just one sip, they will as often guess wrongly which glass contains which colour. I gather they used to try this experiment at one of the top oenology institutes, but stopped because the results made the students unhappy.
The wine trade has always profited from the fact that people’s appreciation of the product is based on their most fallible sense organs, which feed information to the part of the brain that deals with snobbery. The graphic designer who turns out the label has more influence on the bulk of my purchases than any winemaker, and I suspect that I’m not alone.
If we buy our wine in surroundings that impress us, we seem to lose even more of our good sense. A man who managed the wine purchases for one of the grand French hotel chains told me that he knew from experience that 5 per cent of his stock would be off in some way. “But, luckily, only 1 per cent of the bottles is ever sent back.”
The proportion of wine bottles that are cork-tainted or oxidised - undrinkable - is probably higher than that. At the big wine competitions as much as 7 per cent of bottles are rejected for these reasons, and they are of course the best-kept wines. How many of us reject 1 bottle in 14 of those we open? As yet there is no way of knowing what a bottle contains until you open it. We must hope that science never comes up with such a gadget: it will push prices up terribly.
But one thing you can now be sure of is that if a wine bottle is stopped with a cork - plastic or tree bark - it is more likely to let you down. Screw-capped bottles have a failure rate of less than half those of corked ones. They’ve been used long enough now for it to be shown that the greatest wines will work just as well under screw top: the technology has advanced enough for the wine-maker to adjust the cap to let in the amount of air necessary for the wine to age properly. But even knowing this, I will hesitate before taking screw-topped wine as a present. A snob, you see. Unless of course it’s one of those parties where you can just shove it on the table behind something posher.
The best thing about wine is that it doesn’t really matter - we taste what we expect to taste. As with most shopping, bargains give more pleasure.
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