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The Center of the London wine region
Located beneath the brick arches that support the rail from Victoria, is located just few meters Vinopolis away from the newly built Globe Theatre Shakespeare in the Southwark area of London. Latin aptly names Vinopolis. The Romans established a Once this part of London south of the River Thames. Vinopolis means vine city. Now it has come to mean wine center. The center opened in 1999 in what is used for a warehouse. The Southeastern Railway Company built the original structure in 1866.
When you walk through the rooms of Vinopolis, you see the elegant arches and arched ceiling. Extensive work long tunnels transformed into a series of rooms that house the displays, artifacts, images and video. Other rooms are available for special events.
Tom Forrest, the Tour Development Manager, spoke to us about the history of Vinopolis and vision. When asked Vinopolis if the mission was to educate the public about wine, Tom replied that the mission is to educate with a small "e" Education takes place through a very relaxed atmosphere. Tom said that the public learns through enjoyment. As a result, Vinopolis employees use a sophisticated wine vocabulary. Are very knowledgeable about the wine they have to offer for tasting and answer all your questions.
Vinopolis A visitor can choose from a series of tours. Each tour includes a walk through the rooms that focus on wines from around the world. These rooms are samples of artifacts, videos and pictures. Each tour also includes a number of entries to use for tasting wines. The Original Tour offers five wine tastings and a regular Bombay Sapphire cocktail. Other tours include a wine "How wine tasting "additional session and wine, beer, whiskey, champagne, wine tasting or wormwood. A visitor can also use an audio guide. Various places along the tour, a number represents a number of types in the playback device and you can hear a narrative about what is on screen. The tour is at your own pace. You can read as many of the descriptions are displayed as they wish.
The tour began with screens that show that Georgia, an area surrounded by Russia, the Black Sea, Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan was the birthplace of wine. Archaeological evidence points that held the wine industry in Georgia around 6000 BC, with more 500 varieties of grapes. A former kvevri, once used to ferment the wines, is on display. These jars have been buried decaliter 300-500 on the ground to about from the top to control the temperature. It then travels through a sample of the importance of Bordeaux and Rhone regions of France.
We stopped for a period of twenty minutes on how to taste wine. Our host gave each participant a glass of white wine. We sat in a comfortable small amphitheater. He showed how not to taste the wine from a quick glance at the wine, taking a quick smell and drink all at once. We have observed that spit the wine every time a demonstration how to prove it. He then proceeded to demonstrate how to look, smell and taste wine. He gave us plenty of time to follow your instructions and asked what he thought after each step. This session was very low key and fun. In the rest of the tour, we realized that many other people were swirling their wine and smell the wine.
The tour followed their own pace through displays in Burgundy, France and Germany. The visitors then approach the table where they can choose first tasting wines from different countries to taste. The wine consultants are very knowledgeable and helpful. If you do not know what pleasure, they will ask several questions to determine what they can prove. We decided to select a country and try a wine that was suggested in that country. The tour continued through displays in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Chile, Argentina, South Africa. The visitors then approach the wine tasting table second.
We took a little detour between Argentina and South Africa shows that introducing a series of rooms dedicated to Bombay Sapphire. Bombay Sapphire is distilled London dry gin. A large round table has copper bowls filled with different spices. All spices were cool enough to make one smell. A hallway lined with several glasses of gin led to the tasting bar. Bombay Sapphire Three different cocktails were available. We tested the Sapphire Summer consisted of Bombay Sapphire 25 ml, 15 ml vanilla syrup and pineapple juice and some cocktail consisting Berry Bombay in 25 ml of Bombay Sapphire, 15 ml of blackberry liqueur and topped with cranberry juice. Both of the cocktails were delicious.
The tour took us to the room of Italy another tasting table and then to show the benefits of wine. A series of quotations from ancient times to today than in the case of the health benefits of wine. Our favorite is a quote from Dr. Thomas Stuttaford, London 1999, which stated life, "A glass or two of wine a day are not only longer, but it can also intellectual power increase during the years, always. "
The tour was very educational Vinopolis Vinopolis and employees are very helpful and informative. To the Vinopolis out, we met a couple who spoke with before the tour. They wanted more time allocated for the visit. If the visit to London in the future, consider Vinopolis the possibility of a destination and a plan for a lot of time.
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