Category: Facts About Wine

Which is more important: grape or place the grape grows? Depends on who you ask and how much argument you want. Continue reading “Terroir” →

French make more wine than anyone else, some so sublime it defines wine at its best, some absolutely terrible. To help find your way with French vin, third of three-part primer; today, niche regions. Continue reading “France wine regions 3 of 3” →

French make more wine than anyone else, some so sublime it defines wine at its best, some so mundane French distill it into biofuel.
Continue reading “France wine regions 2 of 3” →

French make more wine than anyone else, some so sublime it defines wine at its best, some so mundane French distill it into biofuel. Continue reading “France wine regions 1 of 3” →

Wine has five components that determine taste and quality: alcohol, acid, tannin, sweetness/dryness, fruitiness. This week, final component: fruitiness. Continue reading “Elements of wine—fruitiness” →

Wine has five components that determine taste and quality: alcohol, acid, tannin, sweetness/dryness, fruitiness. Previously alcohol, acid, and tannin; this week sweetness/dryness. Continue reading “Elements of wine—sweetness/dryness” →

Wine has five components that determine taste and quality: alcohol, acid, tannin, sweetness/dryness, fruitiness. Last weeks alcohol and acid; this week tannin. Continue reading “Elements of wine—tannin” →

Wine has five components that determine taste and quality: alcohol, acid, tannin, sweetness/dryness, and fruitiness Continue reading “Elements of wine—acid” →

Wine has five components that determine taste and quality: alcohol, acid, tannin, sweetness/dryness, fruitiness. Know these and you can hang with wine snobs (if that’s your thing). More important, you can enhance your enjoyment of wine. Continue reading “Elements of wine—alcohol” →

Buying wine: intimidating. So many choices and prices. We hunker in our wine foxhole, timidly buy familiar bottles. Continue reading “Country specialties” →