Red Wines Articles

In my opinion, Italians are masters at winemaking and to me they prove it with the incredible variety of wine styles and, especially, red wine types they have floating around. I’m all for change and variety and, although I enjoy the rich, fixed forms of French wines and the like I also feel like spicing things up every once in awhile. Not to say that French wines aren’t at the  [ Read More ]

Red wine fits in so many combinations and recipes it’s impossible to become bored with it. Unless you’re eating and drinking the same thing every day you’ll likely keep drinking red wine for years and years. You can never shake away that warm sensation you get throughout your body the first time you taste a new red wine. And if you’re trying to anticipate the taste from the color and  [ Read More ]

If you’re anything like the average wine aficionado you probably only serve wine either before or during the main course of a meal. And, if you’ve been doing it for a long time, you are probably wondering if there can be anything different without radically changing the wine you’re drinking. When this first happened to me my thought process was something like this. Okay, Merlot, Cabernet and red wine in  [ Read More ]

Many people enjoy wine and appreciate its complexity. They also disregard what happens with the red wine after it’s been opened as irrelevant, even imaginary. However the wine changes its taste and smell, its texture and complexity within a few hours. To better understand this process I will make a little analogy. Have you ever cut an apple and left it for a few seconds on the table. You were  [ Read More ]

Food and wine have both been around for a really long time. They’ve been around for so long that it’s not unreasonable to assume that people have tried most every possible combination they could think of. But don’t you feel that the more you know about food and wine pairing the more you look for even more ridiculous matches? Why is it we have the compulsion to make some combination,  [ Read More ]

If you want a place that captures the quintessential points of Andalucian culture, Seville is the city for you. An intense and passionate way of life seems like the only natural way to live here. Between bullfighting and flamenco, the two biggest Andalucian traditions, the scent of oranges fills the air as you stroll around the narrow, medieval lanes. Seville is home to the most passionate Semana Santa, the Easter  [ Read More ]

An oldie, but goldie, the pairing between wine and cheese is one that should not absent from any wine dinner party. This pairing is such a delight because of the diversity and the multitude of combinations you can explore. Although I would simply love to talk about all the flavors that you can experience I will have to restrict myself a bit and just focus on the red wines. Reds  [ Read More ]

Wine is all about personal taste and choice of aromas and textures. Many people will prefer to drink a white wine because it is lighter than the red one. For all of you that are looking for a good starter red wine you need to begin by searching for a wine that has lower tannin levels. Tannins are the primary culprit for a wine’s bitterness. Red wines have at least  [ Read More ]

By now you should be fairly accustomed with the local food local wine pairing rule of thumb. While it’s true that local cuisine will work 99% of the time, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the best possible pairing available. In the case of Italian food, a much better idea is to pair it with Californian wine. I’ll talk about why pairing Italian food with Californian wine is better in a  [ 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 ]