Nicholas Longworth is best remembered as the father of American winemaking. Longworth popularized the Catawba grape and created a widespread, if short-lived, enthusiasm for sparkling wines of the Ohio River Valley. He was also a well-regarded attorney, a massively successful real estate investor, and a tireless philanthropist who dedicated his enormous fortune to those whom he affectionately called “the devil’s poor.” When he was 19 years old, he moved west, eager to distance himself…
lines he was conceived three times, once from his mom's womb, once from his fathers thigh and once from earth. As the story proceeds with, Hera saw Dionysus concoct winemaking and finally remembered her child. Brimming with disdain she reviled him with frenzy. Dionysus started to go far and wide, spreading the specialty of winemaking and his own particular love. He was the main god who could go from a great many nations and turn out to be really a worldwide friend in need god. In the long run…
Florence, Italy and studied the arts at Istituto d’Arte and Accademia di Belle Arti where he graduated in 1969. Starting in the early 1980’s for two decades, he settled in New York. Currently, he lives between Miami, Rome, and his Castello Romitorio winemaking estate in Montalcino. Throughout his career, that covered fifty years, he exhibited in many important museums and galleries. Some main achievements include showings in Biennale of Paris, San Paolo, and the Venice Biennale. Sandro Chia…
In recent years, the social media networking has increased boomingly, which puts customers at the center of the organizations and inspires marketers to deploy a set of new instruments to listen to them and to engage them to interact with the brand (Chahal & Khanna, 2016). In this context, organizations that fail to follow the latest trend and grasp the business opportunity provided by social media are concerned to be laggard. Especially, the social media has high penetration rate among the…
“How Barbaric Were the Barbarians?” I believe that the Mongols were barbaric people during their conquer through Asia because of their killing methods and military tactics. Mongolians had also made some improvement to asia's economic growth. Some could say that because the Mongols were open to all religions within their people group they were not barbaric.But the Mongols were just not completely barbaric because they killed a lot of people for really no reason. The Mongolians had created many…
the Crips, who once he enters the prison life is respected by the other inmates and must maintain his status by organizing crimes and imposing fear with the prison. Crip Tank describes how he was moved to landscape once the guard discovered his winemaking business. This shift did not discourage Crip Tank from stopping…
Dionysus was a Greek god who was mostly known for as a God of Wine. Past images and descriptions of Dionysus depicted him as an adult male with a beard and long hair. He wore a robe and holds a fennel staff with pine-cone on top. His parents are Zeus, god of thunder, and his mother is a princess mortal, Semele of Thebes. Before Dionysus was born, his mother was killed by Zeus’s thunderbolts. According to the article on website, Theoi, Semele was tricked into seeing Zeus in his true form by…
Many times we feel that wine tasting involves long trips to places like Santa Ynez, Paso Robles or Napa and often fail to look in our own backyards. Four Brix is one of those local diamonds in the rough being a part of the Ventura Wine Trail that I have shamefully failed to visit in a long time. Gary and Karen Stewart have been long time friends and supporters of Grape of the Night (GOTN). My last visit to Four Brix was in 2013 with the GOTN group where Gary not only tasted us on their fine…
Exploring the Creation of an AVA: the Petaluma Gap “Fall into the Gap” may become the new catchphrase for Sonoma County wine-lovers in 2016 if a 200,000 acre region known as the Petaluma Gap – now a part of the Sonoma Coast AVA – is awarded its own American Viticultural Area [AVA] designation some 10 long years after a local winemaker alliance began their quest for recognition citing their most distinctive factor – WIND! Tracing the path of the Petaluma Gap Winegrowers Alliance’s [PGWA]…
at hospital wharf and sold from carts scattered on the streets of Sydney. The Europeans were not as skilled fishermen compared to the aboriginals. Large groups of Germans began to arrive in South Australia in1830, they established vineyards for winemaking in Barossa Valle, which is now a region well known for their wine. In 1850, the gold rush triggered an enormous influx of people from overseas countries including Denmark, Sweden, America, china and Germany. Each nation played a role in…