Want to know how to come up with exquisite cheese and sparkling wine pairings such as triple-cream cheese and Extra Brut Champagne? By the way, try it and you’ll never want to serve them separately again. The logic behind it is that triple creams are decadent and buttery making perfect matches for the refreshing and cleansing Champagne. Pairing is more of  a subjective process. It’s about what you like. The  [ Read More ]

As you know, red wines derive their color from contact with grapeskins during the process of fermentation. You’ve probably heard of descriptors such as garnet, opaque purple, deep violet or dark red. All of those refer directly to the color of the wine, which is given by the grape varietal. Of course it’s never as simple as that since the duration of exposure to grape skins also affects how deep  [ Read More ]