What makes a wine expensive?… or really expensive?
You can find dozens of not hundreds of different wine labels in your local supermarket, their prices can vary from two-buck chuck to hundreds of dollars per bottle, some specialty store may carry wines that cost over $1000...
Sheldon Cooper’s guide to becoming a Wine Geek with these 33 very common Wine terms, jargon and lingos
To describe tasting, taste and feel of wine To talk about Region & Wine Making
Napa Valley Paulliac? tastes and feels just like a First Growth Bordeaux
If you take a very short detour from Silverado Trail, you’ll find Goosecross Winery. If you prefer a more cozy place to sip on your wine, away from the hustling Highway 29, this is a must visit. Goosecross...
4 concepts of expert tasting and wine review
If you have read a wine review or two, notice how they all sound very similar? well! because almost always, they describe the 4 areas of taste in wine: sweet or dry, fruit or earth, light body or...
Easy way to identify flavors, aromas and bouquet in wine
Although they have been used interchangeably but there are actually differences between Aromas and Bouquet of Wine. Flavors in wines can be associated with fruits while their bouquet resembles more wood, spice and herb. These flavors and aromas...
Wines of Champagne, France
Geography & Climate Champagne is the most northerly wine region in France, about 90miles Northeast of Paris. The climate here is extreme; bone-chilling cold in winter with damaging frost but hot, humid in the summer. Once a seabed...
Understanding Wine Classification of Burgundy (Bourgogne) France
Unlike wines for Bordeaux, where each district such as St. Julien and Pauillac could have different regulation and exception to their overall Classification. Other than the confusion between village names and the names Grand Cru vineyard, Burgundy wine...
Classic pairings: Pulpo a’ feira with Albarino, Verdejo or even better with Rioja Joven
Seems like a foreign land, isolated from the rest of Spain, Galicia tucks away in the Northwest corner of Spain. With over 1000 miles of breath-taking coastline chiseled away in deep low valleys, in which water makes way...
Wines of Burgundy (Bourgognes), France
Bordeaux might rule the West of France with its Cabernet and Merlot blends but on the other side of the country, by the border of Italy lies another magnificent wine region, it’s intriguing, elegant, complex and definitely world-class,...
Wines of Bordeaux, France
Far to the west edging the Atlantic ocean lies one of the most important wine regions in the world, Bordeaux. The province is named after the port-city Bordeaux, and it is home to over 10.000 wine producers together...
Wines of Alsace, France
Geography & Climate Alsace is a thin strip of land running along the Vosges Mountain on the West and the Rhein River to the East. Only after Champagne, it is the second most northerly wine region in France...