Have you ever wondered how people come up with tasting notes on the back of a wine bottle? The ones that read something like, “Full-bodied with aromas of green peppercorn, graphite, dark chocolate and ...
You know what’s overwhelming? Shopping for wine. Any given wine store could carry hundreds of bottles, so how are you supposed to choose? (Hint: It has nothing to do with how pretty the label looks, ...
Canned wines, though different from boxed wines, also tend to share some negative press among the public, often regarded as cheap and inferior in quality. On occasion, that might be the case, with ...
It use to be so easy, red wine with red meat, white wine with fish, and white meat. Of course, that isn’t how we eat is it? Where is the fusion food and ethnic spices? Then there was a school of ...
Wine snobs often use odd terms to describe wines. We’ve all see a parody of the wine snob: an erudite personage, probably fancily dressed, holding the stemware just so and making declarations of ...
Holiday parties are here, and in many cases, that means it’s time to buy some wine for a get-together. But what if the huge number of wines on the market makes your head spin before you even leave the ...