Group Wine Tour

THE WINE TASTERS

Celly Cutamora

Jap Prudence Patiño

Chonit Ymbong

Camille Fernandez

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Alyssa Caramelle

Ayala Center Cebu

When we went to this SHOP somewhere in Ayala Center Cebu, we asked the sales lady
"Miss what wine do you prefer: the WHITE WINE or the RED WINE?"

The girl replied:
"mas mo prefer ko sa RED WINE day kay ITS GOOD FOR THE HEART"

And she also told us that most of their wines are from ITALY.

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                D+B Revolutionary Wines Shop

We don't know what road is this but the only thing
we remember was that we rode "13C" from 

Ayala Center Cebu.
When we got there, the guard didn't allow us to get in because the manager is busy and has a meeting.
So, we only took pictures at the outside view.And thanks to the random people in Ayala for they told us how to get there and, yeah, we got there but so sad we only took pictures at the front of their wine shop.

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Bibendum Wines

Ground Floor MLD Building (beside Cafe George), Banilad, Cebu City, Philippines 6000

Contact No: +63 32 261-6777

Bibendum is the leading source for fine wines in Central and Southern Philippines. Launched in 2012, our mission is to service the needs of wine enthusiasts in the Visayas and Mindanao by offering a wide selection of quality wines from across the globe. Bibendum enjoys exclusive agreements with top wineries worldwide, thus, making it easy and possible for our customers to enjoy the best wines at very competitive prices. (source: http://www.bibendumwines.com/whoweare.php)

The saleslady told us:

"These bottles have traveled a thousand miles just to get here in Cebu".

She answered in English, saying she graduated from University of San Jose - Recoletos. She asked us, "Under mong Sir Sasam?"

-- RED WINE GRAPE VARIETIES :)

WHITE WINE GRAPE VARIETIES ^_^

The Origin ... The Vines ... The Vineyards "terrior"

The Origin ... The Vines ... The Vineyards "terrior"

Wine offers a wide array of health benefits: antioxidants in red wine have been found to reduce blood clots; wine is good for the circulatory system and slows the aging process; and wine is also a mild tranquilizer that can lower tension and anxiety. Many human pathogens are inhibited or killed off by the acids and alcohol in wine. As part of a normal diet, wine provides the body with energy, substances that help digestion, and trace amounts of minerals and vitamins. Compounds in red grapes are also proven to boost the immune system and help to prevent cancer.

Wine History

Little is actually known of the early history of wine. It is plausible that early foragers and farmers made alcoholic beverages from wild fruits, including grapes of the species Vitis vinifera subsp. sylvestris, ancestor to modern wine grapes (V. vinifera). This would have become easier following the development of pottery vessels in the later Neolithic of the Near East, about 11,000 BCE.

In his book Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), Patrick McGovern argues that the domestication of the Eurasian wine grape and winemaking could have originated in the territory of the modern-day country of Georgia, spreading south from there.

The oldest known winery is located in the "Areni-1" cave in the Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia. Dated around 4100 BCE, the winery contains a wine press, fermentation vats, jars, and cups. Archaeologists also found grape seeds and vines of the species V. vinifera. Commenting on the importance of the find, McGovern said, "The fact that winemaking was already so well developed in 4000 BCE suggests that the technology probably goes back much earlier.

 wine history could follow the developments and science of grape growing and wine production; another might separately trace the spread of wine commerce through civilization, but there would be many crossovers and detours between them. However the timeline is followed, clearly wine and history have greatly influenced one another.

Fossil vines, 60-million-years-old, are the earliest scientific evidence of grapes. The earliest written account of viniculture is in the Old Testament of the Bible which tells us that Noah planted a vineyard and made wine. As cultivated fermentable crops, honey and grain are older than grapes, although neither mead nor beer has had anywhere near the social impact of wine over recorded time.

I can say that the history of wine making has undergone from a lot of process, trials and errors as we say. From the time it was discovered thousands of years ago.And I think we should know the history of the wine not just for us to drink . And I learned that wine is already existed for how many years ago.
and also Certainly wine, as a natural phase of grape spoilage, was "discovered" by accident, unlike beer and bread, which are human inventions/made........