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5 Tips for Pairing Wine with Chocolate

What could be more decadent than pairing wine with your chocolate? Warning! It’s not a slam dunk. Most of the time pairing with and food is really easy because wine’s structure makes it a natural partner. But, serving dry wine with sweet food takes a little thought because the sweetness of the food can make [...]

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Aging and Storage

Wine aging, what, why and how, is probably the most mysterious and confusing thing about this whole subject of wine. It’s important to start by saying that it’s almost impossible to generalize because the wine itself is somewhat unpredictable and optimum drink-ability is subjective. Most Wines are Best When They’re Young Contrary to popular belief, [...]

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Wine may help keep your weight in check

  Wine may help you keep your weight in check! And, on a list of the “most common questions about wine”, which one rises to the top? How many calories in a glass of wine? So, here goes with the most sought after information: Just click here to learn about how wine may help keep [...]

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Debunking Some Wine Myths

Is it important to smell the cork? Are the “legs” a sign of quality? Is older wine always better? There are persistent truths and myths, when it comes to wine. Let’s take a look at some of the most common ones. Older Is Better In surveys, this is one of the most pervasive misconceptions of [...]

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What is Library Wine?

Is a wine library the same as library wine? Not quite. If you’ve been collecting books by your favorite wine writers, you’re building up a valuable wine library and the answers to your wine-related questions are right at your fingertips. And, if you have a nice collection of old bottles, you might also refer to [...]

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Wine Tasting Basics

There’s a common misconception that good tasters are a rarefied group with special abilities. Nonsense. The reason most of us aren’t good tasters is that we haven’t tried. Most of the time when you have wine you’re conversing and there’s food, music and all kinds of distractions. It’s hard for anyone to evaluate anything under [...]

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Do Sulfites Give Me Headaches?

Do sulfites give me headaches? No, but they sure make me cranky. It happened again. I popped into the tasting room to get a bottle of water and overheard some people telling Jose, the Tasting Room Manager, that they “usually only drink French wine because it doesn’t have any sulfites so they don’t get headaches [...]

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Barrel Aging: It’s Not Just for Oak Flavor!

In fact, it wasn’t until around the 1960s that oak flavor became important! Some time after that we began to see the first references to “new French oak”. And, of course, now there’s so much focus on oak flavor these days that it’s easy to forget the main reason we still use barrels: Aging! The [...]

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