Tag: wine
Wine Reviews: American Wines
For our latest round of wine reviews, we asked our national wine panel to taste and rate American Wines. As always, these reviews include tasting notes, …
Making Sense of Fortified Wines
Fortified wines are wines to which distilled spirit has been added at the winery. They usually contain 15% to 20% alcohol, so they taste stronger and …
Tips For Working With A Sommelier
Many people are intimidated at the thought of working with a sommelier in restaurants. That’s often because some believe that the somm’s primary job is to …
Navigate The Wine Aisle Like A Pro
With summer entertaining season coming up, you might find yourself wine shopping and struggling to figure out which bottles to choose for a gathering. It’s hard to know …
Why We Decant Certain Wines
Decanters have long been used to make wine look pretty, or to control its temperature, but improving flavor by decanting is a relatively recent phenomenon. It …
Wine Reviews: Favorites of 2022
We asked panelists to recall their favorite wines they drank in 2022. These are the most-memorable bottles popped in the past 12 months, representing many different …
A Tast of French Wine Regions
France is renown as one of the great wine-producing countries in the world. From Alsace and Champagne in the north to the Languedoc and Provence in …
Does Wine Really Breathe in Barrels?
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 …
New to Wine? Study France First!
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 …
Reviews: Wines From the Southern Hemisphere
For our latest round of wine reviews, we asked panelists to taste and rate wines from the Southern Hemisphere. This broad area includes some of the …
