red wine
Why Does Wine Need to Breathe?
Why Does Wine Need to Breathe? If you like a good glass of wine, you’ve probably heard people talking about ‘letting wine breathe’, ‘decanting’ and ‘aerating’ wine. It’s not as difficult as it sounds to enjoy quality wine at its best, though. What does letting a wine breathe mean? ‘Letting …
What is the difference between light, medium, and full bodied wines?
Part of the way a wine tastes is down to its body. This description ties in with how much alcohol a wine has, but is also affected by other factors such as climate and quality of the grapes. It is a complicated idea to describe, but often comes down to …
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Do I need to aerate wine?
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 …
Wine and Chocolate – A Bittersweet Affair
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 good dry red wine?
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 …