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Contrary to what a lot of people believe, age doesn’t matter with all wines. Some wine is meant to be consumed while young. This includes most white wines and some light red wines. Cabernet and port are two types of wine that can be improved significantly through the aging process. Picnic wines such as beaujolais and pinot noir are meant specifically to be drank while young.

Ancient Greece is where the practice of allowing fine wines to age began. Wine producers in those times noticed Read more…

White wines are made from colorless grapes or the juice, not the skin, of red grapes. There are several different types of white wines with different aromas, flavors, and robustness. Most white wines are best served chilled and are generally more refreshing than red wines.

One type of popular white wine that is grown all over the world is chardonnay. Chardonnay tends to have a velvety taste with undercurrents of citrus or vanilla. Rieslings are lighter than chardonnay and are Read more…

To the wine novice, it may appear that there are two types of wine; red and white. To the wine connoisseur, however, there are too many types of wine to count and there is no conceivable way to classify wines as simply red or white. Red wine is a favorite wine of many, but many have no idea what the differences are between their favorite wines. Some of the most common and well known types of red are cabernet sauvignon, merlot and pinot noir.
Of the three, cabernet is Read more…

Many people often live by the rule that a certain color wine should be paired with certain dinners. While this is a widely accepted thought, it is not a requirement. However, many people choose to live by this rule and select their dinner wines based on their main dish. Typically, the rule is that red meat should be paired with red wine and that white meat, poultry and fish should be paired with white wines; this rule is broken for certain dishes, though.

However, this Read more…

Although many beginning wine drinkers feel that wine etiquette is complicated and mysterious, only a few basic rules apply to tasting rooms and to wine tasting events. Once the novice wine taster understands these rules and puts them into practice, he or she will be at home in any tasting room in the world.

Most importantly, each wine that is being tasted should be respected. That means that facial expressions or verbal statements expressing displeasure with the wine are both considered to be very bad manners. Discretion is always advised in the tasting room, particularly Read more…