Wine making is a popular activity among wine lovers. The satisfaction you get when you successfully grow your own grapes and make your own wine is unexplainable. Needless to say, most wine lovers who get started in winemaking never grow tired or bored with it. The process of wine making is a complex one, with many pitfalls awaiting the inexperienced. Whether you should buy a wine kit from the local [ Read More ]
Champagne lies just east of Paris. At the first look it might seem as though Champagne is just another one of France’s awesome wine making regions. Don’t mean to say it isn’t, but there’s a little more to it than that. While Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot have been successfully cultivated in many areas other than Bordeaux and Burgundy, some examples are Napa Valley in California and Coonawarra in Australia, there [ Read More ]
The Alsace wine region is renowned for it’s excellent white wines. The thing about this is, there are many wine regions that produce very good white wines, but what makes Alsacian wines so exquisite is the fact that the grape varieties grow only in this specific region and nowhere else. Some basic information about Alsace Alsace is located in France, more specifically in the north east of France. Even more [ Read More ]
Burgundy is one of the famous regions of France. However, unlike some of it’s brothers and sisters it produces only pure and unsullied wine, without any of the blending we may find in Bordeaux and Champagne. If we overlook Gamay for a moment, we will see that Burgundy has only two principal players when it comes to wine making. For white wines we have Chardonnay, and for red wines we [ Read More ]
For the longest time France has been known to be the best in the wine making business. While recently other countries are starting to catch up, France remains the queen of wine. France is divided into many regions, we will only explore the most famous. In alphabetical order: Region 1 – Alsace Famous as a white wine region Alsace also produces red, rose, sweet wines as well as sparkling wines. [ Read More ]
When we think of Sicily an image comes to mind, one of a warm sunny day feeling the gentle breeze of the Mediterranean. But Sicily’s gifts from nature are also put to use to create wines that will fit perfectly, whether you’re enjoying the local cuisine or just admiring the sunset. Let’s have a look at some of these wines and find out what makes them so different from other [ Read More ]
The quality of grapes is easily influenced by many external factors. Plants (more importantly, grapes) are highly dependent on external influences because they cannot move. Even though you always grow the same grapes, depending on the region they are never quite the same. The variance in the different characteristics of grapes is spectacular. Color and size, form and taste, aroma and productiveness all vary in degree of intensity to the [ Read More ]
Having over 2.9 million acres of vine plantations, Spain is the third largest producer of wine in the world. It has the biggest surface are of vineyards in the world but the dry climate makes for a low yield. Most of Spain’s wines are made out of native grapes, giving them an advantage of uniqueness over the widely spread Cabernets, Merlots and Pinots. More than half of Spain’s wines are [ Read More ]
It seems that, nowadays, it’s all about reputation. If you think of a French wine, you say to yourself “hmm… it must be good”, even though you never tasted a French wine before, you just heard other people talk about it. With Germany it is a little more complicated than that. It is known for producing some of the most elegant and aromatically pure white wines, but others say that [ Read More ]
Every wine drinker knows that the wines available in his country are most often sub-par in comparison to the best regions for specific wines. Fact is each type of wine grape works better for certain climates and worse for others. This article will cover a wine region tour around the world. Australia Australia is different from other wine making countries in more than one way. The most important aspect is that [ Read More ]