It’s wine time in spring, so we review classic tasting technique to help you get most enjoyment from your next wine festival, winery tour, or cork pulling with friends. We also throw in a few helpful notes. Continue reading “Tasting Tips”
Category: Facts About Wine
Red wine leads white
If you are searching online to buy wine online or prior to going to a store, odds are you are seeing red. Continue reading “Red wine leads white”
Grape ripeness
Oenophilic legerdemain works winery wonders, but good wine remains what happens in the dirt and on the trestle and inside the vine. Continue reading “Grape ripeness”
Decanting
Veteran readers know my devotion to decanting. Continue reading “Decanting”
Wine faults
You are salivating in anticipation of the delicious steak/bird/fish and pour a special bottle for the occasion. Then, yikes, a goblin grabs your nose. Burnt matches. Wet cardboard. Freshly deposited stuff in a barnyard. Continue reading “Wine faults”
Madeira
What a wonderful time: summer heat is past; great harvest holidays approach. Time to contemplate one of the greatest and most unusual wines in the world: Madeira, an ideal wine to enjoy at the warm, fuzzy end of a feast or while snuggling in a favorite blanket as the first chills of winter whisper outside. Continue reading “Madeira”
Wine state laws
Wine is food, cornerstone of civilization for millennia, central part of religious celebrations from time out of memory, component of diets science asserts help people live longer, happier lives. And a beverage state legislatures feel compelled to mess with because that’s what state legislatures do. Continue reading “Wine state laws”
Wood and wine
Most people understand vine quality influences wine quality. Less appreciated are the effects of wood quality on wine. Continue reading “Wood and wine”
Yquem
Most of us will never taste Château d’Yquem, world standard in Sauternes—the unfortified sweet white wine from the Graves region of Bordeaux. Continue reading “Yquem”
Taste-2 of 2
Vlasic was in a pickle. Souring sales forced them to think outside their jar to hold market share. Continue reading “Taste-2 of 2”