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ApeSwap BUIDL Freshmen Class 🎓
Tags: Buidl, Defi, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Exchange, Binance Smart Chain

ApeSwap BUIDL Freshmen Class 🎓

We cannot be more excited to announce our initial cohort of accepted applicants to the BUIDL program. These fine projects have been hard at work in the Binance Smart Chain space and have great potential! 🚀

Remember Apes, still DYOR, only upon graduating will these projects become official ApeSwap partners. We have faith these will become great projects, but as noted in the original medium article, our final due diligence check is the last step before graduation.

Now, onto the introductions!

Koala DeFi 🐨

These cute creatures have actually already worked to migrate liquidity over to ApeSwap. Koala Defi takes a different approach to farming with their Bush vaults that reward in BUSD, WBNB & BANANA! Bush Vaults V1 are out, with V2 soon to follow!

With Koala building out various vault strategies and innovating how normal pools and farms are built, we believe this will be a great project to join the ApeSwap ecosystem.

Defy.Farm 👩‍🌾

These devs are defying the normal approach to DeFi. By combining reflect mechanics with reward distribution, Defy Farm flips the normal farming script. They have introduced high yield farming with fast deflation, making them a completely unique project on BSC. They also are cooking up a new product called Defy.Credit, which aims to provide interest-free loans against crypto assets. Can’t wait to see how that works!

Defy Farm will be working to migrate liquidity to ApeSwap. With their new loan product coming out, there is tons of potential for Defy Farm. We are excited to support them, and honored to have their products routing through ApeSwap and supporting their liquidity.

MEMEX.Exchange 🤩

Looking for the best new memecoin? Well you officially have to look no further than Memex.exchange. These devs are going to be building out the go to spot for all memecoins. You will now be able to trade all your favorite coins in a single location. Plus they will have a dedicated Mememarketcap website and build an entire ecosystem around memes on BSC, ETH and Polkadot chains.

Whats even better is they are collaborating with ApeSwap to use our router. This will be a great strategic alliance since ApeSwap and Memex.exchange will have different appetites for the tokens they list. We will work to push business leads to each other, but grow the same ecosystem.

Magikarp Finance 🐟

Magikarp started out as a memecoin, but don’t underestimate them. Recently launching their platform, they are looking to become a platform for trying out different DeFi experiments. Think advanced lottery games, BNB vaults, NFT-augmented farms and more!

Magikarp Finance will also be migrating liquidity to ApeSwap. The benefit here is all you Apes will be able to ape into new DeFi experiments, and all these projects will be based on ApeSwap LPs when applicable. Who knows, maybe $BANANA will get used in one of these experiments!

And thats a warp! Join us in welcoming this first class 👏
Juicy Yield Farming $JUF is a generalized, configurable, and 100% decentralized platform for yield farming. This will allow $JUF holders who provide PancakeSwap liquidity the ability to farm…
Tags: Binance Smart Chain, Finance, Cryptocurrency, Pancakeswap

Juicy Yield Farming

$JUF is a generalized, configurable, and 100% decentralized platform for yield farming. This will allow $JUF holders who provide PancakeSwap liquidity the ability to farm additional $JUF out of a pool funded by JuicyFinance. Not only will $JUF token have ultility to swap for exceptional NFTs, but also an option to earn more $JUF.

The farming token will be :

🔹$JUF/$WBNB

🔹$JUF/$ETH

🔹$JUF/$BUSD

🔹$JUF/$CAKE

TOKEN & JUICYNOMICS

Juicy features an automated high yield farming, a buyback everymonth, Burning and a monthly randomized redistribution of staking rewards.

SYMBOL : JUF

NETWORK : BSC

TOKEN ADDRESS : 0xe2d744fbbe9614b3804cb16334b24ca5bdd4d34f

10,000 Initial Supply $JUF Token

5000 $JUF for Liquidity

2000 $JUF for Development

1000 $JUF for Airdrop and other activities

2000 $JUF for Team Tokens/Ambassador/Partnership

$JUF JUICE NFTs Collectibles

JuicyFinance will create a lineage of JUICE NFTs. These will be minted and will be initially airdropped to early holders and sold in limited quantities when our marketplace is live.

MARKETPLACE

We are developing a user friendly and easy to use NFT Marketplace.

🔹Buy and sell NFTs

🔹Will be able to use many different tokens, but will start with $JUF, $WBNB, $BUSD.

🔹Will have an option to bulk send NFTs, which is a new feature and is not supported on any marketplace.

ROADMAP

🔹$JUF Token, Listing, and Yield Farming Development.

🔹Yield Farming goes live.

🔹 Marketplace Beta

🔹Public Marketplace

🔹Continued development of JUICE NFTs.

MEDIA

🔹Website: juicyfinance.org (In Development)

🔹Telegram : https://t.me/JuicyFinance_EN

🔹Telegram News: https://t.me/juicyfinanceann

🔹Twitter: https://twitter.com/JuicyFinance

🔹GitHub: https://github.com/JuicyFinance

🔹Medium: https://medium.com/@juicyfinancee

🔹Discord: https://discord.gg/Mnwrw8e9Vj
It’s Beaujolais Nouveau Day!. Yay! You know what that means? It means…
Tags: Wine Industry, Wine, Wine Tasting, Beaujolais, Beaujolais Nouveau

Yay! You know what that means? It means an extra excuse to drink wine. So, here is an introduction into the grape variety Gamay and this fun and fruity day.

The grape and the region

Gamay grapes looking real good!

Gamay is the red grape variety of Beaujolais, which is just south of Burgundy in France and is technically part of the Burgundy Region. If you are looking for the most serious, age worthy wines of this region, look for the 10 “crus” of Beaujolais which are in the northern part. They are the villages that have the best terroir (granite soils and rolling hills) and therefore produce the best wines. Look out for the names such as Fleurie, Brouilly and Morgon. However, as these wines tend to have much more concentration and complexity, they are not allowed to produce any Beaujolais Nouveau. Slightly more affordable than the structured “Cru” wines are the Beaujolais-Villages which surround the famous 10 villages and are generally much better than just straight Beaujolais. Both can release the Nouveau style.

A map breaking down Beaujolais

So, what is Beaujolais Nouveau?

Beaujolais Nouveau day happens on the Third Thursday in November every year. This is basically #thirstythursday but on steroids! The wine is literally released at 12.01am on the Thursday — and if we were lucky enough to be in France, we would be able to celebrate with a bucket full of wine and a crazy amount of fireworks. This wine is the first wine to be released in France — just a few weeks after the grapes have actually been harvested.

Beaujolais wine country

Tip-top Beaujolais Nouveau knowledge to share:

1. It is not a premium wine and should therefore be drunk young. Drink it TODAY, and don’t even think to cellar it.

2. It will taste like red cherries, bubblegum, kirsch, banana and cinnamon: fun and fruity!

3. Chill it down. Yes, that’s right! It is free of oak and very little tannins, so it is perfect served a little colder than other reds.

4. The reason Beaujolais Nouveau (and often other Beaujolais in general) are so fruity and soft is due to the fermentation process called carbonic maceration. For all you wine geeks out there, this is where the berries are left as a whole bunch inside a tank without any oxygen and so therefore this forces the grapes to ferment inside the berries creating an intracellular fermentation. The result is a wine that is softer and fruiter than normally fermented grapes.

5. Beaujolais Nouveau day used to have a race all over the globe, where all different countries where trying to get their hands on these wines and get them back to their countries to sell. However, times have changed. Boring! We are now able to get the wines shipped in advance — but you still must wait till 12.01am on the Third Thursday in November to be able to purchase them.

6. A perfect pairing is a Thanksgiving or Christmas day lunch — perfect with turkey and all those piggys in a blanket… YUM!
[Ebook] Get The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built America’s #1 Wine Brand Download Now
Tags: Wine

[FREE] Read Online The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built America’s #1 Wine Brand Full Pages

It is amazing that such an iconic brand as Barefoot Wines began as a start-up in the laundry room of a rented farmhouse. Even more surprising is that it was started by a business couple with no money and no knowledge of the wine industry.They regularly ran into difficulties that nearly killed the brand. It was their unshakable belief in Barefoot’s potential that kept it going, along with the use of classic business principles, and a never-say-die outlook. Hardship, hustle, and heart are the essence of The Barefoot Spirit.The book was written by award-winning journalist Rick Kushman after hundreds of hours of research and interviews with the Barefoot Wine founders and many others. The Barefoot Spirit is not a dry business text. The lessons are woven into a humorous twenty-year business adventure story. It’s an uncommon peek behind the curtain of the wine business that’s inspiring, amazing, and entertaining.This book is a testament to the power of out-of-the-box thinking. It is a

Download Here -> https://7library.com/book/0999504207
ABOUT US — and an open letter to you
By: Ameli Capion
Tags: Terrassedularzac, Winemaking, Wine, Ddwine, Languedoc

Hi there

DDWine.uk, or Direct Delivery Wine, has been put together by this rather good-looking group of winemakers! 🙂 We’re an artisan collective on a mission to:

– supply quality wine at great value direct from our vineyards to you. Au revoir, M. Middleman;

– be your one-stop online wine shop for French wine from our region;

– persuade you that our region is, as far as wine goes, the New France.

The New France? Absolutely. Could Bordeaux and Burgundy be described as such, or the Loire, Rhône, Provence or Alsace? Here’s a map of where we are:

Yes, Languedoc, South of France. Once referred to as ‘the wine basket’, did you realise it’s now considered by those in the know France’s most exciting and innovative wine region? Not only is it where beautiful red, white and rosé wine is produced, but much of it is made organically. It also offers exceptional value compared to Bordeaux, Burgundy etc.

More precisely, our vineyards are located at different altitudes in an appellation called Terrasses du Larzac. The area is about 45 minutes NW of Montpellier and 45 minutes SE of the Millau Viaduct. See our social media for photos because you’ll definitely want to visit this wild and romantic place of limestone causses, Knights Templar villages, river gorges and caves, and extraordinary terroirs…

Here’s what Andrew Jefford of Decanter magazine, and author of ‘The New France’, has said of AOP Terrasses du Larzac:

“Where is the greatest terroir in Languedoc? You could make a case for Faugères, for Pic St Loup, for parts of St Chinian, for Minervois La Livinière, maybe for La Clape, but after my trip I have to say that if you were to write me out a cheque for a million euros and tell me to go to find somewhere to make great red wine, I would look most closely of all at Terrasses du Larzac.”

NOT JUST GREAT (AWARD-WINNING) RED WINE…

Although our red blends from Syrah, Grenache, Mourvèdre, Carignan and Cinsault, lush with the warmth of Southern France and the scent of wild hillside herbs, have won numerous accolades, our lesser known award-winning white wines (made from blends of Roussanne, Marsanne, Viognier, Clairette, Bourboulenc, Rolle — aka Vermentino — and Picpoul de Pinet) are wonderful with fish and seafood from the Mediterranean; while our rosés are every bit as good as any from Provence.

SO, EXPLORE…AND VISIT US…

Many UK wine retailers still favour Old France, but we’d love you to embark upon a whole new wine adventure. Start by treating yourself to a case of our wines — red, white, rosé or mixed. Wine delivery at ddwine.uk is usually 1–3 working days.

And then visit. There’s always something going on. Also, don’t forget to follow us, and what’s important to us, on Instagram and Facebook i.e., our family and friends, our love of the land, our crazy passion for the grape, and our joy and humility in being able to call this fabulous corner of the world our home.

Many thanks for visiting our website. We very much look forward to welcoming you to the Larzac, and Languedoc, soon.
What is decanting wine and why is important?
By: Brenda Galaviz
Tags: Wine Tasting, Decanting, Wine

There is no more magic, mysterious or drama as decanting. Serving wine always involves a mystique.

Decanting wine means slowly pouring the wine from its bottle into a different container: a decanter, while the sediment remains at the bottom of the bottle. A wine decanter is often made of glass with an easy-pour neck and wide base.

Why you should decant wine?

1. Decanting aerates the wine with the introduction of oxygen. You need to allow it to breath up to enhance its flavor and bouquet profile.

2. Decanting separates the sediment. Decanting helps to separate the sediment from the wine that settles at the bottom of the bottle. Red wines have the most sediment; mostly older wines while young wines contain the least.

What wines need to be decanted?

Most red wines need to be decanted because their tannins are more intense and this process improves the flavor.

White and Rosé wines don’t usually need to be decanted, in fact if the wine is highly aromatic decanting can affect the flavor. If you like to do it, just consider a few seconds to let the wine breathe.

Attention: You shouldn’t decant sparkling wines like Champagne and Prosecco.

How long to decant a wine?

For red wines decanting can go from 30 minutes to more than 3 hours. Here is a suggested list of decanting times for the most common types of wine:

· Pinot Noir: 30 minutes.

· Zinfadel: 30 minutes.

· Malbec: 1 hour.

· Cabernet sauvignon, Syrah, Tempranillo, Sangiovese or Merlot: 2 hours.

· Port: 2–3 hours.

· Nebbiolo: 3 hours.

How to decant wine?

James Suckling, one of the world´s most powerful wine critics, suggests the following steps to decant wine:

Before decanting, if your bottle of wine has been stored horizontally, sit it upright for a full day. This allows the sediment to settle at the bottom of the bottle. Open your bottle of wine. Retire the label from the bottle neck, this allows you to see sediment when it appears in the bottle neck. Tilt the neck of the bottle toward the decanter below an angle of 45 degrees for better results. Pour gently the wine into the decanter to prevent the wine from gushing forth (and disturbing the sediment). Look for any sediment (seen as a dark deposit) that approaches to the neck, shining a flashlight can help. Stop decanting if you see any sediment approaching the bottle neck. Tilt the bottle back to upright, then start again. Finish pouring the wine, leaving about half an ounce in the bottle with the sediment. Decanting the wine accordingly with the suggested time of the wine grape.

Tip. If you are afraid about the sediment, you can use a filter to stop particles from getting into wine.

Once a wine is decanted it can’t be undone. Most red wines last around 18 hours after being decanted, try to enjoy it all or recork but take in count the time.

Want to learn more about wine? Follow me for more information.

Also, you can visit our Instragram and Facebook page under the name Wahioli.

With love Brenda
7 Things I Learned from a Bottle of Wine
By: Crystal Jackson
Tags: Humor, Lifestyle, Love And Sex, Wine, Self

7 Things I Learned from a Bottle of Wine

Photo by Alfonso Scarpa on Unsplash

My personal growth game is so strong sometimes that I even take lessons away from a night of drinking.

Yes, I’ve learned many valuable things from a bottle of wine. I mean, the wine didn’t speak to me. I drank it. And still I managed to learn a few key lessons- about life and about myself.

Here are just a few.

Photo by Jamie Brown on Unsplash

I am hilarious.

I mean, really freaking funny. My usual sharp wit gets turned up a notch to absolutely on point.

So what if no one else is laughing? They say “laugh and the world laughs with you”, so I’m giving it the old college try.

I am delightful.

It’s true. You should know that about me. And if you don’t know that about me, I might tell you a time or ten. Just so you know.

Because self-love is important. It’s absolutely essential. If you don’t think you’re delightful, why should anyone else?

Photo by Vadim Fomenok on Unsplash

If I’m normally adorable, I get adorable-r or more adorable.

But the first one is funnier to say. Let’s just say that I’m uber-affectionate and super warm and fuzzy.

Or maybe it’s just the room that’s fuzzy. Either way. This, again, goes back to loving yourself.

I can talk a mile a minute and then fall fast asleep.

Which may leave people who know me already asking what’s the difference, but really it is very different. Even I don’t know I’m about to drop off into a REM cycle until I do. I will chat and laugh until the moment I do, and then I’ll sleep like a baby until morning and wake up no worse for the wear.

I will turn into a serious storyteller.

Yes, I know I’m a writer for a living. An actual career writer. But I will still burst into a thousand random stories, and I will make even the most mundane story vastly entertaining.

Or at least I’ll tell my most boring story in such a charming way that you’ll dismiss its’ dullness in deference to my charm. Or at least, let me think you have.

Photo by Alexander Krivitskiy on Unsplash

I get really … hot.

No, really. Things seem to heat up quite a bit. Expect me to peel off my clothes. And likely peel my partner out of his- with his willing participation, of course.

Because consent matters even after a liberal pouring of wine.

And I can’t do math.

Oh, that’s a fact even without wine. But I promised you 7 things and only delivered, by my tipsy count, 6. An error in judgment likely brought on by mild to moderate inebriation. Forgive me for my miscalculation.

If you expected the secrets to life or some really deep insights into the Universe, you must be drinking a different kind of wine.

Because that’s it. At least, for this round of drinking. I don’t do it often, so a single bottle of wine is that much more potent for lack of regular alcohol consumption. All things in moderation, I say! Or someone said anyway…
What is the General Depth of the Wine Cabinet?
By: Miya Huang
Tags: Wine

The function of the wine cabinet is not only to receive items, but also to highlight the taste of the host at home, so that the home can be more upscale. With the development of modern home furnishings, wine cabinets are becoming more and more popular in the homes of ordinary people. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce some problems about wine cabinets. Today, Oppein can take you to understand the depth of wine cabinets. What is the general depth of wine cabinets?

Different styles of wine cabinet depth will be different, the following four styles of wine cabinet depth.

1.European rural style wine cabinet: generally, the depth of the wine cabinet will not be too deep, so as not to make it inconvenient for you to take good wine. The depth of the European rural style furniture is 490 mm, which is harmonious with the overall design. It can adopt simple but not simple design, so that you can feel the unique elegance of the product. It has become a favorite product of many consumers. The overall size of the wine cabinet is 700 * 490 * 490 * 1800mm.

2. British style wine cabinet: the whole design is all white, and crystal clear glass is used as the cabinet door, which adds a bit of modern flavor, and can show the unique nobility and elegance in the British style. The overall size of this wine cabinet is 1450 L * 420 w * 2190mm H.

3. French style wine cabinet: the depth design of the general wine cabinet in French style is relatively shallow. It can also make use of some gold depictions and carvings with luxurious characteristics, so that it can inadvertently send out some characteristics of noble temperament in romance, and create a high-quality living atmosphere for everyone. What is the depth of the general wine cabinet? This wine cabinet is also made of top solid wood, with reasonable depth design and overall dimension of 990 * 450 * 2160mm.

4. American classic style wine cabinet: the size of American classic style wine cabinet is 950 * 530 * 2000 mm in length * 530 * height.

After introducing the four styles of wine cabinets, do you know the depth of your wine cabinet design?
Places to Visit for Wine Tastings
By: Ephraim Vashovsky
Tags: Wine Tasting, Travel, Wine

There is a multitude of popular destinations around the globe where one can experience an adventurous wine tasting expedition. From Bordeaux, France to Napa, California, the most well-known destinations are often the most sought out. They can also be the most expensive. However, there is a myriad of wine tasting destinations right in the US other than Napa Valley. These wine-producing regions may not be as fruitful as others, but they’re delightful nonetheless. And one can be sure to enjoy a tantalizing experience in any of these regions. Here are five wine tasting destinations in the US outside of California.

Willamette Valley, Oregon

The cooler temperatures of Oregon may not be as desirable for producing more fruity full-bodied wines that are typical of most warm-climate regions. Cooler climate can easily create complications for vineyards such as frost, low sugars, and shorter growing seasons. However, Willamette Valley has managed to produce an abundance of cool-climate grapes due to its unique climate. This 150-mile-long valley is host to over 500 wineries. Despite the cool temperatures, Willamette Valley has a longer and warmer growing season than any area in Oregon. It also has unique temperature shifts during the growing season that add to the beautiful complexity of its wines. This area is a popular destination for its Pinot noir, but also produces other varieties such as Pinot blanc and Chardonnay.

Walla Walla, Washington

While Washington State may not be the most renown wine-producing region in the states, it does come close as it’s the second-largest producer in the states. Its main region for a bevy of wines is Walla Walla, and for good reason. Walla Walla, Washington has a rich agricultural heritage due to the areas varying geological features of its valleys. Different soil compositions, elevations, and rainfall allow Walla Walla to be a host for agricultural products from asparagus to wine grapes. Due to its lush growing regions, it’s been able to set aside approximately 3,000-acres of vineyards, which house around 120 wineries. The wines produced from this region range from Cabernet sauvignon to Grenache, and other varietals.

Finger Lakes, New York

When one thinks of New York, they probably wouldn’t picture luscious valleys populated with a variety of wine grapes. Yet, that’s exactly what Finger Lakes, New York is known for. With this region far outside the reach of skyscrapers and packed city bridges, it’s able to be a host of numerous wine varieties that are adept to its cooler climate. This region houses over 140 wineries and produces some of the states finest Rieslings, but also produces a variety of reds including Pinot noir.
Broken Earth continues to do things with white wine that sounds great on paper and translates well…
By: Stephen Mcconnell
Tags: California, Paso Robles, Food And Drink, Wine, White Wine

Broken Earth continues to do things with white wine that sounds great on paper and translates well into the glass. Their new inert press I was skeptical of at first, thinking old-fashioned-ly wines need a little oxygen. Then I visited some places in Italy and found them to be a lot more commonplace and definitely utilized to preserve delicate fruit structures. A couple of the early wines of this method I tasted from this producer I felt almost awkwardly austere, but this one is far from it.

Almost clear, just a hint of legal pad to confirm you’re not drinking water. Graphite, pitch, and wet chalkboard greet you in the nose, hints of melon, banana, tomato vine and surf mist lie deep in the background–along with slight sulfur. Earthy and loamy, the minerality just GLOWS–and doesn’t really take on any citrus personalities as usual. There’s a roundness to the nose, though: a bulkhead of ripeness tip-toeing on buttery, but more cold honey-butter–with a tarragon twist.

In the mouth, a richness nearly approaching Chardonnay-levels cleanses you of all that steely grate. Tropical fruit indulges you in perceived sweetness even though the wine is bone-dry. Lychee and guava–peachy and round–create a white-grape-juice canned-fruit syrup which cruises sailingly across the palate, deftly avoiding the potholes of acid but clipping a few of them gently. There’s just too many to miss, and it swells up all that minerality, depositing the ridiculous structure all over in ways that would make Riesling blush. In the finish, the lush fruit again makes an argument for RS, and the encroaching cellar-floor turns the whole package surprisingly old-worldy. Didn’t really see that one comin, but it WORKS. And there’s TANNIN. Lots of tannin. This would be a fun wine to *lose* a few bottles for a decade. Bet you a million bucks it would go the distance.

2019 BROKEN EARTH ‘Anonymity’ Torrontes Paso Robles 12.4

https://www.brokenearthwinery.com/
Lindeman’s Wines: Crafting Diverse Portfolio Wines For Decades
By: James Clarke
Tags: Wines, Lindemans Wines

An approachable and accessible wine with consistent quality and timeless appeal. Let us check out the range it has to offer to its customers around the world.

Bin Series

An approachable wine range with consistency in quality and global demand. This wine is adored around the world and designed to be relished time and again. This range has Bin 65 Chardonnay, Bin 50 Shiraz, Bin 85 Pinot Grigio, Bin 45 Cabernet Sauvignon, Bin 95 Sauvignon Blanc, Bin 40 Merlot, Bin 90 Moscato, Bin 35 Rosé and Bin 25 Brut Cuvée.

Cawarra

This range of Lindeman’s Wines is a tribute to the original family home of Dr. Henry Lindeman. It is a perfect pick to give you homely vibes on the dinner table or on the deck on a sunny afternoon. It has Chardonnay, Semillon Chardonnay, Shiraz Cabernet, Cabernet Merlot and Merlot.

Coonawarra Trio

The highly awarded Lindeman’s Coonawarra Trio is a representative of Lindeman’s premium winemaking heritage and their four decades in Coonawarra, South Australia. This range has St George Cabernet Sauvignon, Limestone Ridge Shiraz Cabernet and Pyrus Cabernet Blend at their disposal.

Early Harvest

These wines are 25% lighter in alcohol and calories so you can enjoy great tasting wines as part of a lighter lifestyle. The range has the following wines to offer — Sparkling, Semillon Sauvignon Blanc, Rosé, Shiraz and Sweet White.

Gentleman’s Collection

Dr. Lindeman, an upstanding man of formidable character, started his own winery in 1843. By doing so, he set his sights on civilising a colony of hard-drinking ruffians. This range has high-quality Shiraz and Chardonnay to offer.

Henry’s Sons

A tribute to Dr. Lindeman’s five sons. These wines are best enjoyed outdoors in restaurants and bars with great friends and characters. This range has Herbert’s Brut Cuvée, Henry John Junior’s Chardonnay,

Sidney’s Semillon Sauvignon Blanc and Arthur’s Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon to offer.

Hunter Valley

This range has the Hunter Valley’s hero varieties with Reserve wines released in vintages. These outstanding wines represent homage to the regional home. It has Hunter Valley Semillon, Hunter Valley Reserve Semillon, Hunter Valley Shiraz and Hunter Valley Reserve Shiraz to offer.

Maiden Press

The winemakers have sourced grapes from selected vineyards to make this sophisticated sparkling juice. Created with no alcohol or added sugar, this wine range contains no more than 0.5% alcohol by volume from natural fruit fermentation. The Maiden Press range has the following wines to offer — Maiden Press Sparkling Moscato and Maiden Press Sparkling Shiraz.

Porphyry

A fruity, sweet, luscious white wine that makes up for an excellent value for money. Porphyry Blanc is what this range offers.

Curious to know more about Lindeman’s Wines? Visit Just Wines and buy this wine online with great discounts.
5 things you didn’t know about Riesling
By: Brenda Galaviz
Tags: Wine Tasting, Wine, Riesling, Riesling Wine

Do you know Riesling? Have you ever try it? Do you liked? Do you want to know more about Riesling? If so, keep reading.

The first time I tried Riesling was in 2014, I was in Strasbourg, France for work and went to dinner to La Petite France (Strasbourg historic district). One of my French colleagues suggested drinking a Riesling with the Alsatian food, it was delicious, and from that day I love it.

Riesling is a white grape originated in the Rhine River region: parts of Germany, France, Austria, and Switzerland, that produces some of the world’s best white wines.

Here are five things to know about Riesling:

1. Not all Rieslings are sweet

Riesling is used to make dry, semi-sweet, sweet, and sparkling Riesling wines. Frequently the labels do not tell us in which category is the wine we are trying to buy and we can feel confused

Rieslings from Austria, Australia and New Zealand are almost always dry, and the rare dessert wines are usually marked as such.

Rieslings from Alsace, France; German Rieslings labeled as “trocken”; Washington State Riesling labeled “dry,” and most New York Riesling are also dry.

Sweet Rieslings include German Pradikat and Riesling labeled “sweet” or “feinherb.”

2. Low alcohol content

Riesling tends to have a lowest-alcohol content due to the northern climate of Germany, especially among the sweeter styles. When grown in cooler climates, ripeness is low, and acidity is high, which can contribute to its low-alcohol content.

Rieslings can register from 9 to 13% of alcohol. This helps to make them so light and appealing.

3. Great food wine

Riesling´s versatility makes the wine easy to pair with a wide range of foods like Indian curries, Thai dishes, spicy Asian foods, crab legs, shrimp, Alsatian food, and delicate cheeses like Brie. Serve Riesling chilled.

4. Ages well

Riesling is known as one of the best white varieties to age.

Riesling never sees an oak, however it can age as long as red Bordeaux. Like 20 to 30 years or more

5. Grows everywhere

Riesling home is Germany and perhaps Alsace, France (once part of Germany). Here, Riesling is the most important wine grape variety in terms of both quantity and quality.

Austria, Australia, the United States and New Zealand also produce high quality Rieslings. In fact, the famous ice wines of Canada are made mostly from Riesling or Vidal. Almost every winemaking country in the world grows Riesling grapes.

So, let´s open a bottle of Riesling and enjoy it.

With love Brenda
Planning for an exciting Pool Party
By: Sam Smith
Tags: Wine

You will find almost every group of friends plan for at least a holiday trip near the beaches. Now, everyone would wish to get in the shape for the beaches and enjoy the season to its fullest. But almost every plan fails. So, now in order to enjoy the same level of fun with the water, an interesting concept has been included that is a pool party. Throwing a party near the pool to a bunch of people in one’s own yard or neighbor clubhouse is considered to be an awesome experience. You need to make sure that the water is perfectly clean, the food served is hot and delicious, and the tunes that are being played are cool enough to set the party mood.

One thing which must be taken care of is the planning of the event. For any successful pool party, two things are must required. One is Shimmery Wine, and the other one is the perfect planning. There are certain things which must be taken care of which includes -

· Day — Every party must be arranged on the weekends. Now, on the weekdays all the people remain busy with their work, whereas on the weekends every person of the planet would love to catch up and enjoy with their old mates. So, make sure the maximum people could join in to make the moments more cherishing and enjoyable.

· Venue — If you are planning to make use of the neighborhood pool belonging to any particular club, then get it reserved. Most of the places even prohibit the consumption of alcoholic drinks. So you need to check all the criteria of the venue beforehand.

It is very necessary to make use of frozen drinks in order to cool down on the hot days. Nowadays often Glitter wine is being arranged around the swimming pool. It has got an awesome look. The combination of the shaved ice along with other ingredients is regarded to be unforgettable.

So, enjoy and have fun with the glittering wine in your hand with some grilled chicken!
Random Producer Selection for the Catalyst Network
By: Joseph Kearney
Tags: Distributed Ledgers, Consensus, Ethereum, Blockchain, Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Randomness or thereby lack of in computer science is a major point in the design of many systems. Highly random PRNG’s are utilised in many cryptographic schemes as well as in many other systems. However, when they go wrong critical flaws in software and security can occur.

One of the most infamous examples of a failure due to this is the case of Sony where the “randomness” of the randomly generated numbers for the elliptic curve cryptography used in the generation of public/private key pairs was not random enough. This meant that the private key for users could be recovered.

Furthermore, there is the case of NIST allegedly inserting back doors into the PRNG’s used for generating certain elliptic curves. [1]

When setting out to design Catalyst, we designed a new type of consensus we call Probabilistic Byzantine Fault Tolerant. You can read more about Catalyst and our consensus mechanism in our “What is Catalyst” blockchain live developer den video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnG3vvZMSSU

The idea was to solve the blockchain trilemma of security, decentralisation and scalability. In order to achieve this, the consensus had to deterministically choose random nodes from the network to validate for given cycles. But implementing true randomness that is deterministic across the network and can not be gamed is a whole other set of challenges.

Random producer selection is a key element of the security of the network. An assailant who could predict an efficient method for gaining entry to the producer pool (the nodes performing the work for a given cycle) could potentially mount a 51% attack against the network without a user needing more than 50% of the network power (or in Catalysts case population of the network). This is due to that malicious actor being able to create an unrepresentative bias towards their population of nodes when going through the producer selection process. This leads to the question of how can you select a group of peers from a network at random without any members being able to game the system. Other requirements are that there is minimal communication, and the process is non-interactive.
Welcome Brian Marcel to the IOTA Foundation
By: Iota Foundation
Tags: Distributed Ledgers, Iota, Brian Marcel, Supply Chain, Welcome

Brian Marcel has over 40 years of hands-on, high-level, senior corporate and entrepreneurial experience. He got involved in the early days of barcoding and after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he set up Joint Ventures in five former Eastern Bloc countries. The IBCS Group is now the leading barcode and enterprise mobility solutions in Central and Eastern Europe. His success is based on ownership, openness, and trust; values that are shared across the five companies in Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Bulgaria.

Brian joins IOTA Foundation as the newest advisory board member.

Brian’s job as Chairman of IBCS Group is to keep ahead of technology to ensure his customers have access to the latest business models. Thus, he came across IOTA and realized it would be a game-changer for the Enterprise. He believes IOTA will change the world just as barcodes have done.

Brian is also the author of Raise the Bar, Change the Game, his first book that relates his barcode journey with real-world highs, lows and lessons learned.

On being part of IOTA:

I was looking for a technology that would solve the Blockchain limitations of speed, scalability, and cost. I came across IOTA and the Tangle which looked vastly superior. I reached out to them as I needed help with developing a proof of concept for one of my customers. This would start us on the road to offering the Tangle as a Service and move our barcode and RFID solutions onto the Tangle.

I received such amazing support from IOTA. I soon realized that together we could raise the awareness of DLT amongst corporate entities. And, that IBCS Group could act as a bridge between IOTA and our customers to get faster adoption.

I am delighted to join the Advisory Board where I can hopefully introduce IOTA to a number of my customers and suppliers. Using my experience in introducing barcodes over the past 40 years can take some of the mystique out of the Tangle, making it more customer-friendly.

We are excited to welcome Brian Marcel to the IOTA Advisory Board. Brian’s entrepreneurial experience, specifically as it relates to global trade and supply chain, is highly valuable to IOTA’s work in these areas. We look forward to working with Brian in this advisory role. Please give him a warm welcome.
Welcome Clint Walker to the IOTA Foundation
By: Iota Foundation
Tags: Distributed Ledgers, Iota, Clint Walker, Supervisory Board, Welcome

Clint Walker is joining the Supervisory Board of the IOTA Foundation. In this role, along with Richard Soley, Clint will be responsible for the general oversight and guidance of the IOTA Foundation.

Clint lives in Wilmington, Delaware in the United States. He is an attorney and banker by trade. Clint recently retired from Barclays Bank Delaware, a bank that he helped form in 2000, which grew to be the seventh-largest issuer of Visa and Mastercard in the US, with 6,000 employees. Prior to that, Clint was General Counsel of First USA Bank, which at that time was the largest Visa issuer in the world. Prior to that, he also served as regulatory counsel in Washington DC for Citibank. Clint started his career as a litigator for Cravath Swaine and Moore in NYC. In addition, Clint serves on numerous government commissions and charitable boards.

His expertise lies in governance, consumer banking, regulatory affairs, compliance, and controls.

On joining IOTA:

“I believe that IOTA has the very real potential for radically transforming how machines and people interact with each other in a way that will create a new paradigm for conducting business. Whether it is the enablement of novel business models through microtransactions, the cooperation between new and traditional legal frameworks, or the creation of solutions to some of society’s thorniest issues,(e.g., environmental, medical) and everything in between, such as smart contracts and smart cities, IOTA can make this interconnected world a better place. I am excited to join the team and play my role in helping make this happen.”

We are proud to announce Clint Walker as our newest Supervisory Board member of the IOTA Foundation. His combined legal, financial and regulatory experience will be a valuable asset to the foundation as we accelerate our North American expansion efforts. Please give him a warm welcome!
On Valuing Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
By: Pranav M Jagtap
Tags: Distributed Ledgers, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Nft, Memes

A few days ago, I wrote about Ampleforth NFTs. Now that the latest Bankless podcast episode is out, we can expound on the rich content released to Bankless insiders a week ago. Kudos to the Bankless leadership for consistently putting out high quality content, and the community for invaluable participation. If you haven’t yet subscribed to Bankless, you’re missing out on intellectual yield you should be farming.

Since 2018, Delphi Digital (another incredible resource) has been researching NFTs. Per their self-admission, this was motivated by the search for a high-profile fund in the crypto gaming sector. On 9/25/2020, Delphi made an investment worth $159,000 or 473.5 ETH into 5 Axies.

Axies are digital pets that are collected, bred, and used for battle in the game Axie Infinity.

Why?

Rarity and Utility.

Rarity: The Delphi Digital team recognizes this particular kind of Axie — the Mystic Axie — is ultra rare. The investment thesis behind owning “the only Bug and Reptile 3x Mystics as well as 1/3 of all 4x Mystics in existence,” as written in a recent report, appears to be rooted in scarcity value.

Utility: Axies can be used in game for battling, breeding, developing, modifying, trading, etc.

So long as there exists a market with participants, or a game with players, Axies will have demonstrable value — similar to rare video game items.

However, there is an important difference:

Because Axies are Non-Fungible Tokens living on the Ethereum blockchain, they are not restricted to in-game use cases. NFTs establish verifiable scarcity for digital assets, and immutable ownership over them.

Screenshots do not.

This means…

NFTs can potentially be lent out for yield or borrowed against as collateral.

Or exchanged on a marketplace, like trading cards from games such as Magic the Gathering, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh! And so forth.

Or (not) farmed:

And because I’m not a sucker for cards and collectibles, that’s not what I’m doing.

By not parking my capital in the form of $MEME into a smart contract, I am not “farming” pineapple credits to be redeemed for one or more of these NFT cards. I am not expecting or earning any trading fees in return, nor am I anticipating a growth in the value of $MEME. I am not purely in pursuit of this stamp of ownership that will forever be forged into the blockchain.

Complete DeFi Degen. Full Autist*. Mode Engaged.
Cointelegraph: The Cardano Foundation will preserve its independence, says new CEO
By: Cardano Foundation
Tags: Distributed Ledgers, Governance, Cardano, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

This post originally featured in Cointelegraph.

The Cardano (ADA) ecosystem has a complex governance structure, not dissimilar from the way the U.S. democracy operates, with its built-in checks and balances.

There are three main players: the Cardano Foundation, EMURGO and IOHK; according to the Foundation’s incoming CEO Frederik Gregaard, the governance will only get more complicated as more organizations join. He also said that he intends to maintain the Foundation’s independence from Cardano’s founder and IOHK CEO, Charles Hoskinson, who created this structure in the first place:

“The Foundation law in Switzerland says that we need to be independent. That’s exactly why it’s interesting and why Charles chose to set it up like that, because he really, truly feels that the people who are going to protect the Cardano protocol for the generations to come, need to be independent.”

The Foundation’s mission is the advancement of “the Cardano protocol.” It also retains a development company for the protocol, which is currently IOHK — though its contract expires later this year. With the Voltaire era scheduled for release in a few months, the community will soon vote on whether to extend IOHK’s contract. In the unlikely event that IOHK fails to secure the backing of the community, another development company will be hired to take their place.

Although back in 2018, there was a serious rift between the two, it appears that the relationship has been amended since. IOHK is an independent entity, and though its primary focus is on Cardano, it works with other projects as well. For instance, recently, it proposed a couple of solutions to Ethereum Classic. EMURGO was originally established as a venture arm of the ecosystem, but it appears to since have morphed into a broader technology company.

Gregaard accepts that Hoskinson is more than just the head of Cardano’s development company and that there may be times when they will butt heads over the direction of Cardano’s development:

“Charles did initiate the project together with one of his colleagues. So, there’s no doubt about how brilliant he is and how visionary he is. But he’s running a product company that needs to deliver products…I’m sure that there are going to be some fights in terms of priorities and some spots where we believe, together with the community maybe, that we should go a bit more right and Charles wants to be a little bit more left and we need to agree on that together.”

He said that having worked with Hoskinson for the past 6 to 12 months (as a PwC consultant), he has a good feeling about this relationship, though he does not expect it to be easy. Gregaard is a big supporter of decentralized governance. In his view, this presents a viable alternative to the current state of the world, where giant tech platforms like Facebook and Google manipulatively exploit their users.
Welcome Jakub Cech to the IOTA Executive Team
By: Iota Foundation
Tags: Distributed Ledgers, Iota, Software Development, Welcome

Jakub Cech joined the IOTA Foundation in May 2018 as Product Owner. With his background in learning algorithms, distributed systems programming, programming for parallel computing platforms, cloud microservices, and product management, Jakub took the lead focusing on IOTA node software implementation (IRI), with stabilization and performance improvements of the software. Jakub was also responsible for the development of the client library software and the release of the account module. The IOTA Foundation now actively develops client libraries in six programming languages. Jakub also led other projects throughout the IOTA Foundation, for example, the new documentation portal.

On joining the IOTA Executive Team

When I first joined the IOTA Foundation, many of the software offerings and products that were being developed by the Foundation were in their early stages. Many of the changes that needed to happen were already laid out, but much of the development process still needed to be defined and set in place.

We are now seeing an increase in the interest from external parties for implementing the IOTA technology. This requires us to mature the offering of our technology stack. It will be my responsibility, as Director of Engineering, to ensure that the development of our technology is aligned with the needs of our users and partners. In addition, we want a level of transparency that allows everyone — an individual or an organization — to contribute to the development.

The IOTA technology is on a course to be the backbone of very exciting IoT solutions, which significantly improve not just our daily lives, but society as a whole. I’m very excited to be part of this journey.

With the development of IOTA technology, we identified an increasing need for working with existing IoT hardware manufacturers and IC fabricators. That’s why the former Director of Engineering, Edward Greve, will continue with the IOTA Foundation as Head of Engineering Asia. His focus will be on building out the local team, working with companies and governments in the region, and setting up R&D centers to showcase our products. Edward is already located in Taiwan, which makes him perfectly positioned for this particular role.

We are delighted to welcome Jakub as Director of Engineering for the IOTA Foundation. His hard work and dedication combined with his in-depth understanding of the IOTA technology and the challenges it solves, make him a great fit for this position.