History of Wine

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Wine is an alcoholic beverage typically made from fermented fruit, usually grapes (hence the word "wine" from Latin vin, grape). However, so-called [country wine]?s or fruit wines are made from anything that can be fermented, from flowers like dandelion (with added sugar), to berries, apples, stone fruits, vegetables, and even root crops like potatoes. Wine not made from grapes is generally qualified by the name of its major ingredient, for example, elderberry wine. Mead? is sometimes called honey wine. The remainder of this article discusses grape wine. Brandy is a distilled wine.

Wine is an alcoholic beverage typically made from fermented fruit, usually grapes (hence the word "wine" from Latin vin, grape). However, so-called [country wine]?s or fruit wines are made from anything that can be fermented, from flowers like dandelion (with added sugar), to berries, apples, stone fruits, vegetables, and even root crops like potatoes. Wine not made from grapes is generally qualified by the name of its major ingredient, for example, elderberry wine. Mead? is sometimes called honey wine. Brandy is a distilled wine. The remainder of this article discusses grape wine.

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An "appellation" is an indicator of where the grapes were grown. These are legally defined areas; some appellations additionally allow only certain grape varieties to be used and only certain types of wine to be made in order to bear the name of the appellation. America and Canada confuse this system by using some European appellations as generic wine names, as champagne, port, burgundy. In the rest of the world Champagne, for example, can only have been grown and fermented in the Champagne region of France. This practice is being phased out.

An "appellation" is an indicator of where the grapes were grown. These are legally defined areas; some appellations additionally allow only certain grape varieties to be used and only certain types of wine to be made in order to bear the name of the appellation. America and Canada confuse this system by using some European appellations as generic wine names, as champagne, port, burgundy. In the rest of the world Champagne, for example, can only have been grown and fermented in the Champagne region of France.

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