Wine Characteristics
A Guide to Wine Glasses
Wine glasses are designed for specific wine styles, find out how to pair your wines to the right glass.
Choosing Wine as a Gift
If you want to find a great red wine for under $25 consider an Argentinian Malbec, which is a smooth medium bodied red with flavors of plum...
Introduction to Aromatic White Wines
Aromatic white wines are defined by intense fruit, floral or spice aromas. The pronounced aromas they display come from a higher than...
What Does Dry Wine Mean? A Beginners Guide to Wine Tasting Lingo
The characteristic of a dry wine is not a sensory characteristic, but a measure of the amount of residual sugar in the wine. Dry, off-dry,...
How to Take Wine Tasting Notes
Make a few sections in this binder where you will categorize your wines: red wine, white wine and rosé wine. Then add a couple other...
How to Recognize Wine Flaws and Faults
When we use the term oxidized, what we mean to say is that it has been exposed to an exceptional amount of oxygen. An oxidized wine can be...
Here's the Difference Between Wine Grapes and Table Grapes
Wine grapes are smaller with large, hard seeds for the production of tannin while table grapes are large with small seeds for added juice...
From Pigeage to Carbonic: The Process of Maceration
Maceration is the oenological term used to describe the process of extraction from grapes. It can be done before, during or after...
Best Italian Wine? Ask the Sommeliers
With thousands of reds, whites and rosés to choose from, selecting Italian wine can be a daunting challenge. We reached out to prominent...
Natural Polyphenols in Red Wine Contribute to a Healthy Heart
Red wine’s most outstanding health claim, over the years, is the heart-healthy benefits of high levels of polyphenols. Also referred to as...
How to Rate the Wine You Drink and Discover Alternatives to Top-Rated Wines
We’re all familiar with Cabernet Sauvignon or Zinfandel of California, Riesling of Germany, Sangiovese of Italy or Super Tuscans, Pinot...
Wine Tasting 101
Slurp, swish and swoosh wine to get the maximum flavor and use descriptors to describe your experience. Keep a tasting journal, observe the...
Put Down the Sweet Red: How to Drink Fine Wine
while there isn’t anything wrong with drinking a glass of sweet red, sweet reds on their own won’t help you develop your wine palate. For...
Drying Out: How to Tell When a Wine is 'Over the Hill'
When wines that were produced to be consumed young are aged for too long (exact time period varies depending on the wine, but think 2 - 3...
How to Pick a Thanksgiving Wine
Part of feast planning includes food and wine pairings, so as soon as you’ve invited everyone and set your menu, you should be thinking...
What Is a Rose Wine?
What is Rosé Wine? A hybrid between white and red wine. Rosé is of French origin and can be dry or very sweet. The acidity of a rosé has...
What Corked Means - and Other Tricky Wine Terminology
Corked wine simply means that the wine has been contaminated with cork taint via the presence of trichloroanisole or TCA.... Drinking a...
How Do All Those Aromas and Flavors Get Into Wine?
Different wines can carry variations of similar aromas; fermentation processes, geographical vineyard properties and aging methods can...
Wine Tasting - Nose, Aroma or Bouquet?
Scents and smells attributed to wine are described by using various terms, the main three being nose, aromas and bouquet. Learn the basics...
