Category: Facts About Wine

Wine tannins are the little girl with the curl. When they are good, they are very good indeed. But when they are bad they are horrid. Continue reading →

Coronavirus disrupts life worldwide. For wine world, however, the situation has meant boom rather than bust. Continue reading →

Deep ruby color; cherry, plum, flowers on the nose; black cherry, plum, blackberry, blackcurrant, leather, cedar, soft spices on the palate. Continue reading →

There is an old saying about lovemaking—a little wine increases the opportunity, too much wine decreases the performance. Continue reading →

Week two of wine acquisition strategies: Continue reading →

Reviewing wine is vexing when your words appear in newspapers and the internet around the world. Continue reading →

Wine world notes: Continue reading →

How many grapes does it take to make a bottle of wine? Depends, as it so often does in wine. Ballpark: 600 to 800 grape berries. Continue reading →

The vast majority of the wine you are likely to purchase is ready to drink when you get home from the store. What happens when you put a bottle in the back of your wine fridge or dark closet and forget about it? What happens with really old wine? Continue reading →

Wine world bad news and good news. Bad: record harvests in 2018 and 2019 produced a grape glut. Further bad: some grapes may have “smoke taint” from fires in California and Australia, further driving down prices. Grape growers are not thrilled. Continue reading →