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Three Ways Rosé Wine is Made
Rosé can be a bit of a mystery. Labels rarely offer much information about how the style is made. Books and classes explain that pink wines …
Pairing Wine with Spicy Foods
Foods with spicy heat can be stimulating and enjoyable, but are also famously hard to pair successfully with wines. Some wines are better equipped than others …
How to Talk About Sweetness in Wine
Sweetness in wine — or its absence, known as dryness — causes more confusion for consumers than any other sensory trait. This is largely due to …
How to Make Sense of Wine Language
To enjoy a glass of wine requires no training, but to communicate about it effectively, we need the right words. Most of wine’s sensory qualities are …
How to Calculate Calories in Dry Wine
Nowadays, many wine shoppers are calorie-conscious, choosing hard seltzers and other manufactured diet drinks in a bid to stay healthy. Many dry wines can offer a …
New to Wine? Study France First!
It is almost impossible to make sense of the modern wine world without grasping the influential role played by France. The French may not have been …
Why Vineyard Soil is So Important for Terroir
Grasping the underlying concept of terroir is like getting an all-access pass that helps unlock many of wine’s most confounding secrets. Terroir is the reason why …
Preserving Opened Wine Part 2: Freeze It!
It may sound sacrilegious to wine professionals, but the simplest and most effective way to preserve opened wine is to freeze it. As we illustrated in Part …
How to Preserve Opened Wine
What’s the best way to preserve opened wine? After all, the fun begins when wine is opened, but saving unfinished bottles for later enjoyment is tricky. …
Warm Days, Cool Nights: Why They Matter for Wine
All the world’s finest vineyards have something in common: Whether they are in a warm or cool climate region, they almost always feature an unusually big …