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Category: Vinsights

Pairings • Vinsights

dish of spicy food

Pairing Wine with Spicy Foods

by: Marnie Old

01/18/2023

Foods with spicy heat can be stimulating and enjoyable, but are also famously hard to pair successfully with wines. Some wines are better equipped than others …

Featured Articles • Vinsights

How to Talk About Sweetness in Wine

by: Marnie Old

01/13/2023

However, humans are hard-wired to appreciate sugar. Most newcomers to the category instinctively prefer wines that feature some detectable sweetness. Mass-market brands capitalize on this, and …

Featured Articles • Vinsights

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Does Wine Really Breathe in Barrels?

by: Marnie Old

05/24/2022

Most modern wine is made in stainless-steel tanks. But winemakers still use traditional oak barrels to refine and improve most premium red wines and some whites …

Featured Articles • Vinsights

New to Wine? Study France First!

by: Melissa Dowling

01/10/2022

It is almost impossible to make sense of the modern wine world without grasping the influential role played by France. The French may not have been …

Vinsights

How to Preserve Opened Wine Part 2: Freeze It!

by: Melissa Dowling

09/03/2021

It may sound sacrilegious to wine professionals, but the simplest and most effective way to preserve opened wine is to freeze it. As we illustrated in Part …

Vinsights

How to Preserve Opened Wine

by: Marnie Old

06/04/2021

What’s the best way to preserve opened wine? After all, the fun begins when wine is opened, but saving unfinished bottles for later enjoyment is tricky. …

Vinsights

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Warm Days, Cool Nights: Why They Matter for Wine

by: Marnie Old

03/16/2021

All the world’s finest vineyards have something in common: Whether they are in a warm or cool climate region, they almost always feature an unusually big …

Vinsights

The Best Temperature for Storing or Serving Wine

Why Temperature Matters for Wine

by: Marnie Old

02/26/2021

Temperature is an important factor for both the service and storage of wine.  Not only is wine a perishable product that needs to be kept cool …

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