What does the most expensive bottle of wine cost? How did the wine industry start in the United States? What is the most efficient way to chill a bottle of wine? These and many other questions about wine will be answered here. PRICE TAG • The most expensive bottle price …
Cork: a natural resource that changed our lives since B.C., allowing us to better seal and protect our food and beverages. Simple and modest, corks have been an essential part of the winemaking industry for many centuries. Those tiny inconspicuous plugs featuring different sizes and shapes are the most inspiring devices. Their job is quite …
In an earlier post titled Green Wines, we briefly talked about biodynamic wines. Let’s now have a closer look and pierce through the mysteries of biodynamic farming: vineyards grown without chemicals and grapes harvested at nights displaying a full moon. In spite of all the preconceived notions, this serious practice …
I was recently in Napa and had the pleasure of visiting some great wineries and tasting some amazing wines. One of the standouts from the trip was my stop at Tres Sabores Winery in St. Helena on Whitehall Lane. This is not too far from the famed Whitehall Lane Winery. …
I have had the privilege to taste some very expensive wines in my life. Now just to be clear, the value I am shamelessly bragging about is not monetary. I am talking about aged wines that you cannot put a price on. These are wines that were bought years ago, …
You’ve probably heard people talk about “investing in wine”. We’re buying wine to drink it, not to sell it… so where is the return on investment? The return on investment is not monetary, unless you sell your wine but that doesn’t make a lot of sense and that’s a “risky …
The Wine Ponderer has already written a post on wine storage and home wine cellars. So there’s no need to repeat that information. However, I recently was sent an unusual wine cellar design that I felt compelled to share. Some of you may have seen this going around the Internet. …
Meet your new wine merchant: amazon.com A recent report suggests that in a matter of weeks Amazon will launch a wine marketplace. I bet you didn’t see that one coming, or perhaps you did. The U.S. wine industry rakes anywhere between 18 to 22 billion dollars in annual sales revenues, so …
You’ve heard this saying before: “Good wine pairing is most successful when the wine and the food come from the same region”. Truth or myth? Well, it is mostly true, but everyone is entitled to an opinion and fortunately, there are a lot of opinions out there. Some might say that …
What does it mean to drink a 90-point wine? Can you really taste the difference between that and a wine that scores 95 points? Who comes up with these numbers? And more importantly, why should you really care? You’ve heard this from me before. If you like the wine, then …
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