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A factory that outsources quality control to yeast and patience.
means A place where grapes are pressed, fermented, and aged into wine.
from Straightforward English carpentry: 'wine' — itself an ancient borrowing traceable back through Germanic routes to Latin 'vinum' — plus the suffix '-ery,' the same ending that gives you bakery and brewery, marking a place where a craft is practiced. It's a 19th-century American coinage, built to name the new wine-producing operations of California, no older or stranger than that.
- legal line
- making wine counts, selling it needs separate license
- core process
- mostly waiting while bacteria do the work
- biggest cost
- barrels and land, not the grapes
- aging myth
- most wine is best within a few years