If you have been drinking or learning about wine for any amount of time, there’s a fair chance that you have heard about aerating the wine (or sometimes called allowing the wine to “breathe”). And you may be wondering, do I need to aerate this glass of wine that I …
So you may (or may not) have wondered about that rooster on the neck of the wine bottle. (But if you never wondered, how did you get here?) There is quite a story that goes with that logo. Chianti Classico is the area between Florence and Siena in Italy. Way …
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Wine and chocolate. Wine good, chocolate good, together… good? Well good news, wine and chocolate can definitely be paired together. Since cocoa beans and wine use the same type of yeast for fermentation, they are a good match. But it can get quite challenging as chocolates can be quite powerful and you …
What is a dry red wine you might ask? Well a dry red wine is one that has a low residual sugar content. So that means that most, if not all, of the red grape sugars were converted to alcohol after the fermentation of the wine. The resulting dry red wine …
At a certain point in of your wine drinking career, you may start amassing a larger collection of wines. Or possibly you don’t like waiting for that white wine to get to a proper temperature before serving it with a group of friends. There are many potential reasons, so you have come …
So what is decanting and why do people want to do it to wine? de·cant dəˈkant/ verb gerund or present participle: decanting gradually pour (liquid, typically wine or a solution) from one container into another, especially without disturbing the sediment. “the wine was decanted about 40 minutes before being served” …
Last time you were at a liquor store looking for a bottle of wine, you may have saw a wine being advertised as 93 points or something. But what does that mean? I would be happy if I got 93% on a test in school, but can one apply something …
