This allowed them to mature more slowly, helping ripen the tannins and fruit evenly.
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The della Gherardescas, once lords over this horizon, have been watching olives ripen from this spot for a thousand years.
Mr. Bryan, the California berry grower, says mechanization doesn't work for picking berries, which ripen at different rates.
South Africa advised its commercial farmers to start planting early, and to use crop strains that ripen quickly.
The grapes particularly Cabernet were planted down in the valleys instead of up in the hills, and the fruit didn't ripen properly.
You can ripen very green avocados at home by putting them in a paper bag with a banana or an apple.
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Inevitably the variety was planted in less-than-ideal spots, and the vines carried crop loads that were too heavy to ripen fully.
This causes chlorophyll (a green pigment) to return to the orange skins imbuing them with a greenish or yellowish finish as they ripen.
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Anyone brave enough to delve into its spells may learn how to use magic to manufacture fake gold, calm a wild horse or ripen a melon.
The objective is to set an idea in motion, letting it stretch, ripen, morph, or otherwise develop in collision and combination with other ideas.
Of course it can be a tough feat to manage all your negotiations so that the job offers ripen at exactly the same time.
The big red-grape-growing regions of South Australia, such as Coonawarra and the Barossa Valley, get enough sun and heat to ripen the fruit every year.
He calls himself a "medium-size" grower - once his flowers ripen in July, he hopes to harvest between 20 and 30 ounces of the drug.
The fruits produce ethylene gas, which helps ripen them further.
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And these days, Argentine wineries with a taste for risk seem to be engaged in a game of chicken: You're going to try to ripen grapes (and dodge hail) at that crazy altitude?
This year, she is also raising a variety of tomatoes, but the record rainfall in Texas has taken a toll: Her Celebrities, Carnivals, Big Boys and Champions are taking a long time to ripen.
The vines need a long, dry growing season for the grapes to ripen fully and for the roots to burrow deep and extract the mineral elements that add to the structure and flavor of the wines.
Couple this with the grape's prima donna temperature demands--warm though not-too-warm days to ripen up, but with cool nights to keep acidity from respiring out--and you begin to see why making great Pinot Gris takes a special calling.
Couple this with the grape's prima donna temperature demands-warm though not-too-warm days to ripen up, but with cool nights to keep acidity from respiring out-and you begin to see why making great Pinot Gris takes a special calling.
Both countries have big-league wine industries (Argentina's is the world's fifth-largest), nearly 500 years of vintages, and growing areas with Eden-like climates for farming wine grapes--so warm and dry that grapes easily ripen and pesticides, fungicides, and anti-rot measures are often unnecessary.
And while there are great sparkling wines outside of France, many of which have been featured in this column throughout the year, it is to the wines from the cool slopes of Champagne, where the grapes struggle to ripen fully, that I frequently return when looking for something sparkling.
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