How to select a good wine practically boils down to your personal taste. Wine selecting can be done by meticulously going through every aspect of the wine types in question, starting from alcohol and sugar content all the way to the color it has in the glass. But that’s not necessarily an efficient way to select wine. How to select wine is really much more simple. First of all think [ Read More ]
Typically at a wine tasting party your guests will start feeling hungry after going through a bunch of wines. This is completely normal, and completely expected. Thus, even though the focus is on the wine and not the food, it benefits you greatly to have prepared some good appetizers to douse the hunger. Another clever and subtle purpose of an appetizer is to cleanse the tasters palates between different wines. [ 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 ]
France is and always has been the queen of wine. If you ever wonder why that happened, picture a bunch of people getting a 1000 years head start on everyone else to experiment with. The fact that France has been growing wine for more than 2000 years, coupled with the fact that France has arguably the best climate to grow wine grapes on earth, it’s a no brainer. Savoy is [ Read More ]
Today we’ll talk about wine storage. This is an interesting subject because many factors influence the quality of stored wine. This step by step guide is divided into 3 main parts. Part 1 – Before Opening Step 1 – Keep in a dark place Wines don’t really like sunlight. Wines will get scared when confronted with light or fluorescent fixtures and will become “light struck”. This gives them a bad smell [ 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 ]