Home and Lifestyle - Beer, Wine and Spirits

Temperature controlled wine cabinets can provide an ideal solution for home wine storage where there is no space to build a wine cellar. Wine cabinets are built to match as closely as possible the conditions found in a wine cave. The temperature for these units is set between 55 and 60 degrees and the humidity is maintained between 60% and 70%. Temperature and humidity fluctuations are therefore avoided, and wine can age as the winemaker intended.

Exposure to ultra violet light is extremely harmful to wine and both sun and artificial light should be avoided. Ultraviolet light will damage a wine by causing degradation of otherwise stable compounds, causing unfavorable and irreversible changes in the wine. Clear glass bottles are most susceptible to this problem, but wine in dark glass can be damaged as well. The usually stable organic compounds, including the tannins, contribute to the aroma, flavor and structure of the wine.

Most wine cabinets have dark glass doors to reduce the UV light. This is a feature worth including if you are thinking of purchasing this type of home wine storage.

Cigars can come in any shape or size - it’s the ingredients, and the
way those ingredients are handled, that makes them good or bad.

Almost
all cigars (except extremely thin models) are made up of three
components: the filler, the tobacco at the center which is the most
important ingredient; the binder, an elastic leaf that holds the filler
in the center; and the outer wrapper, which contains and holds together
the binder.

Perhaps the most important difference among cigars
is the difference among fillers. Handmade cigars, considered the
highest-quality kind, use entire tobacco leaves; this is called a “long
filler.” Machine-made cigars will combine scraps of various tobacco
leaves into a homogenized tobacco product called “short filler,” which
can be rolled quickly into many cigars, with a corresponding loss of
individual tastes and textures. Cigar aficiandos generally prefer
long-filler tobacco. However, long-filler cigars can still vary in
terms of the quality of tobacco used and the blend among different
kinds of tobacco leaves.

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As more and more entertainment venues close themselves off to the rich,
complicated odor of cigar smoke, perhaps it’s time to remind ourselves
that some of history’s great artists - writers, entertainers, musicians
- were not just smokers but cigar lovers. From comedians to social
critics, from rockstar pianists to Christian apologists, these
luminaries found the taste of cigars to be their eleventh muse.

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Who comes to mind when you hear the word “cigar” smoker? If you’re like
too many people - most of them nonsmokers - you imagine a well-dressed
male, perhaps wearing a sweater vest, someone - no matter what age -
who exudes a certain personal gravity.

In fact, though, many
important women throughout history have bucked this stereotype. From
Catherine the Great to some of today’s most popular actresses, these
women wouldn’t let popular misconceptions stand between them and the
rich, full taste of a cigar. Herein, learn about just a few of
history’s great female cigar smokers.

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The year 2007, like any year, will receive a mixed review from
historians. War, genocide, epidemic and environmental destruction
continued apace, as did public apathy and political ineffectiveness. In
America, infrastructure deterioration hit the headlines in August with
the Minneapolis bridge collapse, while social deterioration was
well-attested by the Virginia Tech shootings, the continued erosion of
habeas corpus, and the continued popularity of Britney Spears. In
sports, we saw Michael Vick and Larry Craig disgrace themselves and
their games.

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Despite quite a rise in grocery prices and fuel prices over the last quarter, liquor prices seem to have remained stable, and in some cases have even dropped. If you are looking to get a bulk discount when you purchase wine or beer for your next function or wedding, keep an eye open for great promotional specials. There are plenty around as liquor brand marketers struggle to get people to continue purchasing non essentials in a slowing economy.

Great cigars can be made anywhere, of course. But just as Detroit makes
us think of cars and Hollywood reminds us of movies, cigar smokers
often think of Cuba as the apex of cigar-making.

Why Cuba? As
with so much of history, the answer has to do with colonialism. Tobacco
smoking took off in Europe after Columbus’s expeditions, and as various
European countries fought amongst each other for control over the
lucrative “New World,” tobacco was one of the crops that made certain
regions more desirable than others. The area we now know as Cuba was
under Spanish control when, in the 18th century, the Spaniards began to
produce the first modern cigars, using tobacco imported from Cuba. So
Cuba was involved with the very birth of the cigar.

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Some businesses are more romantic than others.

For example,
compare winemaking with toothpick-making. Now, the wine business is, on
a day-by-day basis, anything but one ecstatic Cabernet Sauvignon after
another. You have to handle distribution, advertising, labor, storage -
one prosaic detail after another. And the toothpick isn’t nearly as
boring as it looks - science journalist Henry Petroski has devoted, in
fact, an entire book to it, The Toothpick, which, critics say, makes
unexpectedly fascinating reading. The toothpick even has its own little
place in literary history - it’s the business by which Chad Newsome,
hero of Henry James’s great novel The Ambassadors, is said to have
earned his living.

Still - would you rather get seated at a party next to a wine guy, or a toothpick guy?

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