Tag Archives: winemaking

From grape to glass: an animated wine infographic

by on 06. Jul, 2010 in Video Magic

Info-graphics, it seems, are all the rage. To you and I they are simple graphical representations of information. To hyperbolic web marketers info-graphics are are a revolutionary new paradigm that will change the way we look at data forever (substitute ‘info-graphics’ in that sentence with any web development you choose and you too can become [...]

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Amateur winemakers die treading grapes

by on 29. Oct, 2008 in Just Plain Weird

Two amateur winemakers died last weekend treading grapes for home-made wine. Daniel Moulin, 48, and Gérard Dachis, 50, of Roiffieux, northern Ardeche died from carbon dioxide poisoning.  They were crushing grapes in the traditional manner with their feet, in a vat that was approximately four square metres in size.  The grapes belonged to a small-scale [...]

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