Wines made from Colobel grapes of Finger Lakes
Discover the best wines made with Colobel as a single variety or as a blend of Finger Lakes.
Colobel noir is a grape variety that originated in France. It is a variety resulting from a cross of the same species (interspecific hybridization). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape for eating on our tables. The Colobel noir can be found in the vineyards of the Rhône Valley.
The wine region of Finger Lakes is located in the region of New York of United States. We currently count 165 estates and châteaux in the of Finger Lakes, producing 1354 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Finger Lakes go well with generally quite well with dishes .
I’d like to say we took advantage of the lockdown and its related commotion to do a stock-take, explore new avenues, turn over intriguing stones, widen and deepen our drinking, taking careful notes as we went. Sadly, no. I won’t say we got stuck in a rut, but we did tend to stick with comfort wines – and “comfort”, in our case, means familiar. Regular readers of this quarterly column can probably guess the labels on the resulting empties. We have a wider range of comfort foods, I’m afraid, than ...
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Livio Mazzarello, 62, was found guilty of money laundering and evading excise duty and VAT on an ‘industrial scale’ in July 2017. He had been selling cases of wine under the counter for cash at The Italian Wine Company in Neasden, northwest London. This fraud allowed the company to dodge VAT and duty on millions of bottles of wine, which were sold wholesale to UK retailers. The total loss to HMRC, the UK’s tax authority, reached £46,579,257.32 between June 2008 and March 2013, according to court ...