Aging wine consists of one golden rule: Patience. You must wait for the wine to age slowly in the comfort and safety of your wine cellar. However, the wine isn’t going to wait for you… When it’s time, it’s time! Keeping track of 20 wine bottles is fine, but when …
Drum roll, please… Here is the big question we (wine snobs) have asked ourselves… Should I get wine insurance? Alright, maybe not ALL of us. People who buy wine and drink it all within a month don’t need to invest in wine insurance. Conversely, people who buy wine and like …
Though this might be common knowledge for some, most people don’t know what makes wine go bad. The last thing we want is to open a bottle only to find out it has turned to the dark side. Typically, wine can age for 5 to 10 years on average, as …
This just in! Some grands crus have recently vanished from a famous restaurant located in the heart of Paris, France: La Tour d’Argent. A discrete, not to mention spectacular wine heist has left the authorities without a lead. Could this be a plot for the third season of the coveted …
Buying and saving wine for a special occasion is an exciting process. Its conviviality brings people together and makes it the ideal beverage to mark a milestone in someone’s life. If you have kids, save a wine bottle or two of their birth year, and open it on their special …
For years, I have been collecting wooden wine boxes. Without any real project in mind, those precious wooden boxes were neatly piled in a corner of my garage. The piles started getting higher and my organization skills could not keep up with the insane amount of boxes I add accrued. …
Since I started wine pondering, I wrote quite a few articles about wine bottle sizes and shapes. I just recently received various requests for more specific measurements. So I tooled myself with a tape measurer and a caliper, and I started measuring wine bottles from my own collection. Everything you want to …
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. …
[Wine Storage] Dedicated to Shinna S. – There are two ways of buying wine. Some people only buy wine for special occasions, for a dinner party with friends, or a sweet Valentine’s day picnic. They buy wine when they need it, and go through that small inventory right away. This …
So here is how it goes… You go to the store to buy a bottle of wine for a little soirée with friends. You really like the wine and you say to yourself… “I need to buy more of this wine. It was amazing!” You go back to the store …
