Category: Facts About Wine

Wine professionals split aromas and flavors into three different categories: primary, secondary, tertiary. What do those terms mean? Continue reading →

Rosé sales are rising—more than 50 percent in 2017, and 2018 was just as hot. If you have not risen to rosé yet, odds are good you will. Continue reading →

“Natural” wine—next big thing in the avant-garde wine world. What is that all about? Continue reading →

Most of us consider wine to be a civilized drink. Professor John J. Mahoney, PhD asserts wine was “the catalyst that created civilization” in his book Wine: The Source of Civilization. Continue reading →

Sales of table wine in the United States essentially are flat after a sustained boom. The latest figures available show wine sales grew by only .02 percent in 2017. Continue reading →

The world drinks a lot of wine—some 6.5 billion gallons in 2018, according to the Paris-based International Organisation of Vine and Wine. Continue reading →

What is this “Old World” “New World” wine thing? Some cartographic elucidation. Continue reading →

Third week of our fearless exploration of wine flaws, and some good news. Continue reading →

Second week of our trepidatious venture into the Stygian world of wine flaws. Continue reading →

Admit it, you experience a flutter of dread when you open a bottle of wine, especially one not familiar to you or one you’ve held for extended time. Could this wine be, uh, flawed—even spoiled? We investigate this the next three weeks. Continue reading →