How Wine is Made: From Grapes to Glass A picture guide of how wine is made, from picking grapes to bottling wine. Depending on the grape, the region and the kind of wine that a winemaker wishes to produce, the exact steps in the harvesting process will vary in time,…
Ever attended a grape stomping event? I did, on a Sunday in September 2018, at a winery near Padova. Grape stomping is exactly as fun as it sounds, and slightly more ridiculous. It’s also harvest season again, which means my brain is currently 40% grapes. So let’s talk about the…
Although, selling wine is my job, my major concern is how to help my customers enjoy wine, so here’s another hack in the world of wine, thanks to the Spaniards, we can now remix our red wines.Â
Chefs add salts to their meals to enhance its taste, so we might just agree that salt kinda improves the taste of some meals, and somehow, it works for Red Wine, Yep.., yet another life hack that has been revealed.
Whether you’ve got 5 wine bottles or 500, you probably don’t want your wine to go bad or the taste to be compromised before you get a chance to drink it. Unfortunately, not all of us wine lovers have the luxury of a personal cellar (if you do, please send…
How much money would you spend on a bottle of wine? Most people would probably keep that figure in the double-digits, perhaps inching into the low triple-digits. While some purchase for pleasure and may never open it, some purchase as a fuel for their cars. For a selected few, wine budgets are…
A Sommelier is a certified wine professional trained in tasting and pairing wines. They have an intimate knowledge of wine terms, regions, characteristics and tastings. Sommelier and Master Sommelier are the second highest ranks in the wine-tasting industry, with the highest being Master of Wine. Usually found in higher end…
What does Vintage mean? It refers to the year of the grape harvest and for the production year of the wine made from those harvested varietals. A wine that is labeled Vintage should be made by the grapes that were grown and harvested from the vintage year specified on the…
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