Sentence examples for designated wine from inspiring English sources

IF you're headed out on a Colorado wine-and-biking trip, the first choice is deciding which of the two federally designated wine regions to explore first.

Local growers, with the personal financial help of Mr. Thompson, are preparing to apply to the Treasury Department to create a federally designated wine region called Big Valley, which would include Mr. Thompson's vineyard and others nearby.

The Alto Douro wine region is itself a Unesco World Heritage Site, and 2006 marked its 250th anniversary as a demarcated wine region, making it the oldest designated wine region in the world.

Go home, have the wine and — this is important — go back to the store soon afterward to give your designated wine person some feedback.

Most recently, single vineyard designated wines play particularly well into the local and organic food movements.

Gradually the DOC system caught on and began allowing more regions to use the grape in their DOC designated wines.

That is because "chateau" has a specific, non-architectural meaning in the French wine industry, designating wine from grapes that were grown on the surrounding vineyards and fermented into wine on the site.

The Hearns designated the wine pinot grigio, not pinot gris, because they thought it more nearly resembled a style found in Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Alto Adige, in northeastern Italy, than one from Alsace, France.

The Douro Valley, which stretches almost 100 miles from the Serra do Marão mountains toward the Spanish border, was designated a wine appellation in 1756, making it one of the world's oldest.

Designating a wine Meritage allows the winemaker the same freedom in blending enjoyed in the Bordeaux châteaux.

What's becoming even more important for designating the wine quality in Germany is the presence of the symbol for the VDP, the association of Germany's leading producers, and the terms Erste Lage and Grosse Gewachs.