By Wendy Kielar
Amarone is a special red wine from Italy. Why is Amarone (ah ma rho nay) so special? It is made from Corvina, Molinara and Rondinella grapes from the Veneto region of Northern Italy. Once the grapes are picked from the vine, a portion of them are laid to rest on straw mats for [...]

By Zahoor Ul Hassan
Most of the drinkers forget about alcohol free wine or when they think about various types of wine they drunk or desire to drink. Non alcoholic wines are great option for pregnant women, designated drivers and for persons on medications due to some heart or some other disease. This type of wine [...]

By Nicole Adams
I must admit, that for many of us, walking into a store to buy a bottle of wine can be a little like visiting a foreign country and not knowing the language. If you’re buying wine for yourself that’s probably not a big deal, although it might be nice to be somewhat knowledgeable [...]

 By Sarah LeNoue
Choosing Wine for Your Wedding
Most people associate weddings with Champagne; it is the customary choice for wedding toasts. But wines are just as customary and should be considered with care when planning your reception menu. Even if your knowledge of wine is limited, it can be easy to select the right wine for [...]

By Christine Szalay Kudra
Wine tasting parties are perfect for getting together either formally or informally with friends. Everyone can relax, taste a few fine wines, and snack on some delicious snacks. Wine tasting parties take a lot less work to organize than a dinner party, and they can also be very elegant.
Planning your party is [...]

 
 By Walt Yehl
1. A glass of wine a day will help keep your memory (and overall health) from going away. A study showed that women over seventy who drank a glass of wine a day had a better memory than those who abstained from wine.
o A glass of wine also helps prevent clots and reduce [...]

 By Jennifer Jordan
I will admit that I’m rather picky. I will only eat certain kinds of food, rarely ingesting dishes entitled with words I can’t pronounce or made up of animals I think are cute. And, I will only date certain types of men, limiting myself to those who are good looking, charming, successful, or, [...]

By Ron Senn
I have enjoyed a good glass of table wine many times with my meals. Wine tasting parties have always been a favorite pastime, especially when combined with cheese. No, I am not from Wisconsin so I do not rate a “cheese head hat”. Recently, after a pleasant dinner party with good friends, I [...]

By Jim Hofman
When most people think of U.S. wine production, destinations like Napa Valley, Washington, and Oregon come to mind. And it’s no wonder, since they are all prolific wine producing areas. But here are three under the radar wine travel destinations you may not know about…
Wine Trails In The U.S.
Over the last few years, [...]

 By Jennifer Jordan
Leftover wine may bring about problems for many of you that leftover food doesn’t possess. While it’s easy to throw a vat of macaroni in a Tupperware bowl or wrap a piece of bread in a plastic baggie, the same can’t be said for wine. When it comes to saving wine, there is [...]

 By Josh Dusick
You don’t have to be a billionaire to appreciate and enjoy fine wine! Appreciating fine wine can be intimidating at first. With the weak dollar and the world popularity of wine skyrocketing, it seems like wine is becoming more and more inaccessible. And for those of you who are new to the world [...]

 By Rob Hemphill
Measuring the pH of a wine is one of the most important tests in a winery. Here are some facts on pH, why we need to know about it and how to measure the pH of your wine accurately.
Most of us learnt about pH in chemistry class at school. If you can’t remember [...]

 
 
By Angella Jones Brown
Wine and its health benefits have always been a burning topic of discussion. There are many myths and facts surrounding this topic. In this article I would like to list out some of the facts which concern about health and drinking wine.
In recent past many studies conducted throughout the world have revealed [...]

 By Mark A Aselstine
Depending on your perspective, Alta Vista Winery is either one of the great successes of the globalization of the wine industry, or one of the forbears of a coming apocalypse of standard wines being produced everywhere.
Alta Vista is owned by the Edonia Group, which is based in France and produces wine in [...]

 By Mark A Aselstine
Spy Valley is located in Marlboro New Zealand and since its inception in 1993 has been growing some of the most impressive fruit in all of the New Zealand wine industry. Starting in 2000 the winery started producing wines under their own name instead of simply selling the fruit and the results [...]

 By Mark A Aselstine
Since its inception in 1987 Montes Winery in Santiago Chile has been producing some of the finest, most affordable wines anywhere in South America. Recently in the news after being selected to pour at the Wine Spectator grand tasting event and for the horrific earthquake I am happy to note that the [...]

 By Christ Ooper
Ask anyone who is passionate about a particular sport or hobby and they’ll tell you that to get started, you need the right equipment - a cyclist needs a decent bike and helmet, a golfer needs a good set of clubs. What they don’t tell you up front is the kind of stuff [...]

 By Dan Appleman
The biggest secret in home wine making is: get the good stuff to start with. Here are step by step instructions for making fabulous homemade wine.
Table of contents
1. A brief History of Wine
2. Use Grocery Store Fruit?
3. Patience is a virtue
4. Before we get started
6. Gathering the essential ingredients
7. Cleanliness is Next to [...]

 By Matt Coughlin
Why Learn To Serve Wine Properly?
If you have ever bought a bottle of wine in a nice restaurant, you may have noticed that the server does not just pop the cork and pour you a glass, but instead goes through a specific process of opening the bottle, letting the buyer test the wine, [...]

 By Katie Hoffman
You do not need a college degree in wine tasting to understand why some wines benefit from being able to breathe a bit. But you do need to know that simply uncorking the bottle and letting it sit for an hour will do nothing to improve the taste or the smell of the [...]

 By Guillermo Bravo
In our fast-paced modern society of technological marvel, we often want to find a quick fix to our problems. For many people, the quicker something can be solved the better, and if it can be done using something that we already have, then that solution is hard to beat. Take for instance the [...]