You know the story – in 1898 this crazy slab of engraved greywacke shows up on a Minnesota farm, seeming to be legit proof that Viking explorers made it to the land of lakes way back in 1362!

The details surrounding Greer's death are unclear, but his grave was prominently marked with a large slab of greywacke, the ...

ca. 1153–1147 B.C.), to a bekhen-stone quarry. Bekhen-stone, or greywacke, was prized for use in high-quality sculptures. To distinguish types of stone, Amennakhte employed dark brown to ...

There was for example the Kensington Runestone, a 200-pound slab of greywacke stone covered in Viking runes that a Swedish immigrant miraculously turned up in rural Minnesota in 1898, but which ...

The soil consists of medium-sized greywacke stone, silt, and sand and results in rich, ripe, elegantly structured wines with a distinctive mineral dusty character called “Gimblett Dust”.

But that wasn’t the case when Kevin Judd became the founding winemaker at Cloudy Bay in 1985, or even when he established his own winery in 2009. And now his Greywacke Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough 2022 ...

a sequence of rocks that are made up of a minimum 1,000-metre-thick section of alternating argillite and greywacke. The ...

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Why is pinot gris, one of our three favourite white wines, so popular? Chardonnay impresses with its substantial body and subtle, dry, complex flavours, often enriched by handling in oak barrels.