Dominican Wine

[irishdomician]

Originally Posted by ricktoronto

Name all the other countries that have average daily temperatures in the 80's and 90's 12 months of the year tha produce good wine. The list:

1.


Think Chile, Northern California, France, the mesas in Argentina, S. Africa, they have seasons. Not the DR.

You see in the wine industry we concern ourselves with the microclimate of a grape growing region rather than the overall general climate of the country. True it is generaly to hot in the DR if you look at it that way but I live in a thriving wine industry in Canada where people think its to cold, but I will let the wines of Niagara speak for themselves. Also in the case of being to hot, take the island of Maui, one side of the island is very sunny and hot and see's little rain while the other side is glum, cooler and has alot of percipitation. Ultimitly I'm just trying to find out if there is a perfect microclimate in the DR.

[Dolores]

Originally Posted by irishdomician

You see in the wine industry we concern ourselves with the microclimate of a grape growing region rather than the overall general climate of the country. True it is generaly to hot in the DR if you look at it that way but I live in a thriving wine industry in Canada where people think its to cold, but I will let the wines of Niagara speak for themselves. Also in the case of being to hot, take the island of Maui, one side of the island is very sunny and hot and see's little rain while the other side is glum, cooler and has alot of percipitation. Ultimitly I'm just trying to find out if there is a perfect microclimate in the DR.

The Neiba experiment proved that wines can be produced here. Tasted the first batch myself and it was very good. There is a perfect microclimate there. Conditions of hot days with little rainfall, and cool evenings and lots of subterranean water.

Italians visiting the site confirmed the wine was good by world standards. It can be done. They were looking for a private partner for the venture. With the change of government things went sour and they lost the production, but this can be retaken and it can work.

[Chirimoya]

Originally Posted by Dolores

The Neiba experiment proved that wines can be produced here. Tasted the first batch myself and it was very good. There is a perfect microclimate there. Conditions of hot days with little rainfall, and cool evenings and lots of subterranean water.

Italians visiting the site confirmed the wine was good by world standards. It can be done. They were looking for a private partner for the venture. With the change of government things went sour and they lost the production, but this can be retaken and it can work.

(Bolding mine) - balsamic vinegar from Neiba?

[Arrica]

Found this old threat - going to Neiba this weekend - a long standing project that I finally get to realise, I have tasted the grapes on a trip transiting through Neiba, found them very tannic and tough in the skin, so might be good for wine... out of oenofile interests I am certainly going to try, maybe the Italians have improved the vinegar since 2005