White wine process of secondary fermentation of champagne. The enrichment of some of the population created a craze for rare wines. This phenomenon, which was already responsible for the development of sherry in England, was reproduced in Central Europe. The discovery of the benefits of the noble rot on white grapes took place around 1650 in Hungary for the development of Tokaji wine. Hugh Johnson declared that: "the Tokay of three centuries ago was the best sweet wine in the world, it was inherited from a long-standing winemaking tradition". Developed with a grape whose exceptional maturity is due to a trade secret,
Wine Country (California) 19th century. A variety of salamanders, snakes and frogs are also present in the Wine Country. The federally listed as threatened California red-legged frog is present in the northern reach draining the south slopes of Annadel State Park. Several endangered species (mostly associated with the Napa Sonoma Marsh) present include Ridgway's rail ("Rallus obsoletus"), California black rail ("Laterallus jamaicensis"), California brown pelican ("Pelicanus occudentalis"), California freshwater shrimp ("Syncaris pacifica"), salt marsh harvest mouse ("Reithrodontomys raviventris" ), Suisun shrew ("Sorex ornatus sinuosus"), Sacramento splittail ("Pogonichtys macrolepidotus"). The above are endangered species with the exception of the splittail, steelhead and black rail,