Wine can be made pretty much anywhere. Decent wine requires a decent climate. But if you want GREAT wine, you need to look toward one of the world’s great winegrowing countries — nations most often blessed by a Mediterranean climate.…
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Tagged with: Australian wine, French wine, Italian wine, Spanish Wine, The World of Wine Club
Posted in Wine Buzz, Wine Region Profiles
Posted in Wine Buzz, Wine Region Profiles
Wine Cuvees of Distinction: The Art of the Blend
Much like 3D technology can enhance the experience of watching a movie, when a vintner uses more than one grape variety, it can enhance the experience of drinking a wine. Filmmaking and winemaking both are art forms, and the techniques…
Tagged with: art of blending, Bordeaux, Chilean wine, French wine, Portuguese wine, red blends
Posted in In the Cellar, Wine Buzz
Posted in In the Cellar, Wine Buzz
A Rosé by Any Name Is a Very Refreshing Wine
In France and other wine-growing countries, it’s known as Rosé (pronounced ro-ZAY). In Spain, it’s known as Rosado. Change that D to a T, and you’ve got Italian Rosato. Whatever the name, these are the most refreshing wines of summer,…
Tagged with: French wine, Rosado, Rosato, Rosé, Spanish Wine
Posted in Food and Wine Pairings/Recipes, Wine in the Glass
Posted in Food and Wine Pairings/Recipes, Wine in the Glass
Getting to Know the Wine Styles of Alsace
Alsace is one of France’s most unusual and exciting wine regions. Although it is not as well known and traveled as Bordeaux, Burgundy or Champagne, it is equally capable of producing majestic wines. Culturally, Alsace is as much German as…
Tagged with: Alsace, Cremant d’Alsace, France, French wine, Germany, Grand Crus, travel, Vorges Mountains
Posted in Wine Buzz
Posted in Wine Buzz
5 Fascinating Facts About French Wine
The French are amazingly resilient people, an assertion underscored in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris last November. I happened to be covering an important global bowling tournament, the QubicaAMF World Cup in Las Vegas, for Bowlers Journal…
5 Fascinating Facts About Bordeaux
There is no more famous wine region than Bordeaux, which is located in southwestern France. Entire books have been written on the region and its estates, but a blog is no place for a book. So, for today, we’ll share…
Tagged with: Bordeaux, France, French wine, Haut Brion, Lafite Rothschild, Latour, Margaux, Mouton Rothschild, Petrus, Viator
Posted in Wine Buzz
Posted in Wine Buzz
The ‘Dawn of a Beautiful Vintage’ in Bordeaux
Those of us who have been in the wine industry for a while and “courted” by the wine estates of Bordeaux are amused by the seemingly annual claims about “vintage of the century” potential.” Simply by definition, every year can’t…
Tagged with: 2015, Bordeaux, France, French wine, Oliover Bernard, Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux, vintage, vintage of the century
Posted in Wine Buzz
Posted in Wine Buzz
Why Are Most French and Italian Wines Named After a Place Instead of a Grape?
In telling the story of my “epiphany wine,” I have mentioned the period of time when I used to have a glass of “Chablis” with my steak at the local Sizzler restaurant. I knew nothing about wine then. First, I…
Tagged with: Burgundy, Chablis, champagne, field blends, France, French wine, Italian wine, Italy, Sizzler
Posted in Wine FAQ
Posted in Wine FAQ
Grenache: The Perfect Wine ‘Committee Member’
Have you ever served on a committee, perhaps at your place of employment or for a charitable endeavor? Were you ever tempted to quit the committee because somebody on it, while they exhibited creative thinking and had good ideas, was…
Tagged with: Australian wine, France, French wine, Garnacha, Grenache, Mourvedre, Spain, Spanish Wine, Syrah
Posted in Wine in the Glass
Posted in Wine in the Glass
