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 …
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 …
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 …
This past weekend, we had a very close friend over for dinner. No special occasion, just a casual get-together kinda thing. Both sharing the same affection for France, I decided to open a bottle of French red wine from Burgundy: Jean Michelot Pommard from 1981! My grandfather who lives in Burgundy …
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 …
