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- The Connoisseur Wine Opener: A Restaurant Staple
By: Johnathon F Black | - Sure there may be lots of different types of wine opener that you have to choose from, but the connoisseur wine opener is one that will really never go out of style. If you own your own restaurant then hopefully you know that the connoisseur wine opener is a restaurant staple, and there are even some people who will go out for a night and who will request to have the waiter open the wine bottle with a connoisseur wine opener, and you would definitely not want to have to tell them that this was n ...
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- Look In These Places For A Great Wine Opener Gift Set
By: Johnathon F Black | - There are few better wine gift sets than the wine opener gift set that are sure to add a touch of warmth to every wine lover's bar. The wine opener gift set is quite unique and special; so, it pays to learn where you can get the best ones that will suit every different occasion perfectly. There is some cheer in learning that many excellent companies are going to great lengths to create more unique and wonderful such gift sets. Furthermore, there are even more wonderful places where you should sh ...
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- Why You Need A Wine Bottle Refrigerator
By: Genesis Davies | - What on earth do you need a wine bottle refrigerator for? There you go. Youve just posed a modern-day question which can be answered by proven wine-making traditions many centuries old.
The most authentic of all family-owned wine cellars have always been underground or at least built below the earth. Stored and cooled in this dark and cool environment, bottled wine was allowed to naturally mature and age. These products carried the seal of excellent wine manufactured from genera ...
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- Tips For Choosing A Wine Refrigerator
By: Genesis Davies | - Wines are not only meant to be sipped by the rich and sophisticated. Why would they be selling cheap wines or how could wines be home made if this were the case? Wines are meant to be enjoyed by everybody. But wines do need special conditions to be enjoyed to the fullest. Hence, if you are a wine lover, it would be best to invest in a wine bottle refrigerator. Specifically, it is a refrigerator specially made to store wines. Same as with wines, care must be considered in choosing a wine refriger ...
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- Wine Bottle Fridges: Do You Really Need One?
By: Genesis Davies | - Theres a lot of talk about wine bottle refrigerators online these days and many people are wondering what the big deal is. Do you really need a special fridge just for your wine? What if you only drink red wine? Isnt your regular fridge good enough? If youve been wondering just what is the point of all this wine fridge talk, then lets answer some of those questions and get it out there.
Do you really need a wine bottle refrigerator? The answer is no. Not if you arent ...
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- Wine Serving Temperature
By: Michael John | - To enjoy the real flavor and aroma of the wine, the wine should be stored and served at an optimal temperature. Wine serving temperature is the fundamental feature that allows the approval of its organoleptic behavior.
Serving wine at an optimal temperature helps to bring out the good taste of the wine. But it is not necessary that the wine should be served chilled or at room temperature. Serving wine at extreme temperatures causes the components inside the wine to overwhelm thus the whol ...
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- Wine Lovers - Learn How To Make Your Own Wine
By: Jeff Terry | - Being a wine maker, I am occasionally asked how to make wine. I usually give people the story about how I came about this hobby. When me and my older brother were going to the same university, he would make his own mead in his basement. Mead is an alcoholic drink made from honey. My brother had a simple kit that he bought somewhere and it worked great. Six weeks after beginning the process, he had 24 bottles of homemade mead that tasted great. This was one of my first introduction to makin ...
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- Learn Spanish Like Crazy - Discover How You Can Learn Spanish Like Crazy With Rocket Spanish
By: Orlando O. | - As you will discover, there are many different Spanish software products out on the market to help you learn Spanish like crazy. The issue with some of these Spanish courses is that they do not help you learn the Spanish language quickly and easily. Be sure you find a Spanish course that is going to make learning Spanish a fun and easy process. Rocket Spanish seems to be a simple Spanish language software program that can help you learn Spanish like crazy in less than eight weeks.
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- Learn Right Now Everything You Need To Know About Anti Aging And Resveratrol, Before It Is Too Late!
By: James Saxon | - What's Resveratrol and what effects will it have on me I hear you ask. Well, Resveratrol is a chemical compound that naturally occurs in most red wines and is known to be the component of red wine that is accountable for the health benefits linked with drinking red wine in moderation. It's often said that drinking a glassful of red wine on a common basis causes many health benefits, including lowered blood pressure or even a reducing in the risk of some threatening diseases such as some types of ...
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- World Class Ice Wine From Canada
By: pellericewine | - Ice wine festival is extravagant event for wine fanatics all around the world. At ice wine festival, you will experience lots of fun and frolic, such as winery tours, concerts, live performances, knowledgeable seminars, wine tastings, delicious cuisines, and much more that you will cherish for a lifetime. Canada is the worlds largest ice wine producer and acknowledging the hard work of their finest ice wine producers by organising events like crowning the grape king is really won ...
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- Wine Tasting For Beginners
By: Tristan Andrews | - Attending wine tasting events can be a great experience and a lot of fun, although a lot of people choose not to attend out of fear - or not knowing what to do or what to expect.
During a wine tasting event, women are always served before the men. Some tastings will serve you bottled water between tastings, so you can clean your mouth out and be ready to taste the next wine that is served. When you take the wine, you should always handle the glass by the stem, to avoid heating i ...
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- Wine Collecting For Beginners
By: Tristan Andrews | - Collecting wine can be a very fun and exciting hobby - especially when you try to find the wine. If you are looking to collect wine, you may end up spending a bit more money than you thought. Wine collecting is a great hobby, although it can be very expensive.
The first thing to do, is find a place to store your wine. You can store your wine at home, although you'll need to have a location with the proper amount of space and cooling temperature (between 50 and 65 degrees F). ...
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- Caveats For Those Looking For The Perfect Wine Fridge
By: Lumbardo | - Proper handling and storage are critical elements that will ensure that you will get full satisfaction from the collection of your favourite wine. The popularity of the wine fridge continues to rise even amongst those whom we may consider as newbie in as far as wine drinking is concerned. However, before one makes an impulse purchase of the first unit that he finds in the market, it is important that a careful consideration and review of all the possible purchase options be undertaken. One of th ...
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- Tips On Choosing Your Next Bottle Of Wine
By: Tristan Andrews | - Tonight's the night. You've got that special dinner party with friends and you want it to be perfect. You've got the menu completed but the question is which wine will compliment the meal best? Here are some tips for choosing fine wine.
Lighter foods need lighter wines while heartier foods need full bodied wines. For example, fish is light and thus a wine like Pinot Noir goes very nicely because it is also light.
The way the food is prepared will also influence ...
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- Learn About The Very Popular Australian Wines
By: Tristan Andrews | - Drink the wine that you like. Sounds obvious, doesn't it? Sometimes, however, we get so caught up in what is the right wine and what is the wrong wine that we forget the most important thing: we have taste! We have our own individual taste and love drinking the wine we love to drink. Sure, certain wines traditionally match certain foods and flavors, but ultimately you are the judge of what you like to drink, no matter what the enologists say!
Australian wines are made from a car ...
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 Wine Tasting Classes at the San Diego Bay Wine and Food Festival in San Diego, California on 11/19/2009 Shared By: CenterdinSD - Held at the San Diego Wine & Culinary Center on November 19 & 20, tasting classes feature discussions led by award-winning winemakers, sommeliers and...
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- Ideas For Gourmet Wine Gift Baskets
By: Tristan Andrews | - Over the past few years the diet of the people living in Mediterranean area has come into focus and many people where surprised to learn the prominent role wine plays in keep us healthy. You can create a healthy gourmet wine gift basket based on the Mediterranean diet and give the wine lover on your list a taste of the wonderful assortment of Greek wines.
Greece has a 6,000 year old wine tradition supported by mythology which attributes the origin of winemaking to Dionysus. Eac ...
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- Make The Most Out Of Wine Country Tours
By: Tristan Andrews | - Make the most of your next wine country trip. Wine has been a big part of a lot of different cultures for many many years. You might not think it so - to you wine is probably just be something you drink with dinner, and your knowledge of what constitutes a good wine might simply be limited to what tastes good with whatever food you have prepared.
However, there are many people who have made wine into their entire lives, and wine is very important to many countries - in culture, ...
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- Discover The Basics Of Making Wine
By: Jimmy Cox | - If you are going to make your own wine you will need to learn the basics of making wine. There are many flavors of wine that can be made by you, but the basics are similar throughout most of the recipes.
To discuss the basics we will use a grape wine recipe for our example. First have some kind of idea what the wine you are going to make is suppose to taste like. This will help you pick out the correct grapes. Your fruit needs to be inspected real close to make sure that you only ...
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- Uncover The Rich History Of Home Wine Making
By: Jimmy Cox | - If you are going to get into home wine making, you may want to know some of the history of wine making. You will then feel a part of this rich history as you make your wines. Wine has been made for many centuries and throughout the world. It even is referenced to in the Bible. So lets look into this history and see what it says about wine making.
Wine has a history the spreads across the centuries and is also involved in the history of countries, whole civilization, agriculture, h ...
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- Different Flavors For Making Wine At Home
By: Jimmy Cox | - When you are making wine in your home, be aware of the different flavors that you can do. You don't have to do a wine based on grapes if you don't want to. There are many fruits you can do wine with besides grapes. Lets look at some recipes to show you what I mean.
Homemade Blueberry Wine
2 1/2 pounds of a variety of blueberries
1 pound of raisins
1 1/2 teaspoon of acid blend
1/2 teaspoon of pectic enzyme
2 pounds of granulated sugar
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- Ingredients For Fabulous Home Wine Making
By: Jimmy Cox | - Are you thinking about taking up home wine making? Wine has been being made since the beginning of time almost. It is a beverage steeped in history and tradition. If you are, then you will need to know about the basic ingredients, that you need to make the wine. Without the right ingredients in your wine, it will not be very good.
With home wine making becoming such a popular hobby, it is easier than ever for you to find the ingredients and supplies that you need. There are stores ...
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- Types Of Grapes Used In Wine Making At Home
By: Jimmy Cox | - Are you wondering which grapes you can use when doing wine making at home. Is the only grape you can think of is the concord grape that the juice is made from? Are you totally in the dark as to what other grapes make good wines? Let's look at some of the types of grapes that can be used for this endeavor.
The Auxerrois grape gives you a neutral wine that is soft and fruity. You will find this grape primarily in Canada and Luxemburg. Sometimes it is mixed with the Pinot Blanc varie ...
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- Essential Equipment Used For Home Wine Making
By: Jimmy Cox | - As with an hobby the right tools and equipment for home wine making helps you turn out a better creation. Below is a list of essential equipment you need to have to begin making wine. Along the way you may find other equipment that you want or need to get too.
1 - Primary Fermentation Container: This is needed for the fermentation process, and should be on average of 20 to 30 percent bigger to hold the foam, that occurs because of this process. More than one choice is available fo ...
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- Explore The Different Sugars Used To Make Your Own Wine
By: Jimmy Cox | - There are a few things always the same when you make your own wine. You need to add two things to your fruit no matter what recipe you use, what are they you ask? Sugar and yeast is the two ingredients. It is these two ingredients that produce the alcohol in the wines through the process of fermentation. Did you know though that there are several varieties of sugar that can be used in wine?
The one sugar to beware of is corn syrup, which is composed of water and glucose. But this ...
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- Napa Valley Wine Tours In United States
By: Alenjoe | - Napa valley tours the most convenient and outstanding way to enjoy the journey to wine country. This beautiful destination is located in the northern region of California, in United States. It is the second largest tourist spot which attracts about five millions tourist every year and also leading producer of wine worldwide. It is the Favorite spot of food and wine lovers and has becomes one of the admired winery destinations where people use to have their romantic dates and weddings in Califor ...
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- Wine Temperature: More Important Than You Know
By: Genesis Davis | - Most wine enthusiasts know how important temperature is when it comes to preserving wine. To make sure that your wine collection retains its original pleasing taste, you have to make sure that you store them in a wine bottle refrigerator that can help you regulate the right temperature they need. As you preserve your wine, you need to monitor its aging process, and to do that, you need to adjust the right temperature and humidity required to store your wine collection properly.
You ...
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- What To Look For In A Wine Bottle Refrigerator
By: Genesis Davis | - Are you an aspiring wine collector? Then you better get yourself a wine bottle refrigerator before you purchase all the wine that you would like to collect. If you love wine enough to really start hunting down the best bottles and you would like to collect various types of this beverage, then you need to prepare a place where you can store them conveniently and properly to conserve the quality.
As a wine aficionado, you have to know what needs to be considered when it comes to makin ...
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- Wine Videos Are Next Best Thing To In-house Wine Guru
By: Wesley S Dumas | - Patriotism runs deep in the world of wine. The French feel France makes the greatest, the Italians Italy, the Germans Germany and the Spaniards Spain.
The United States, of course, is such a huge country that its citizens loyalties are even more specific. Texans buy a dramatic amount of their own product, while the people of Oregon and Washington ensure everyone knows their grape juice is the best.
The overwhelming majority of Americans, however, favor California wine ab ...
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- How To Make Your Own Wine And Not Worry About Paying For Expensive Wines
By: Vance Kardasian | - How to make your own wine is a question that is sure to be uppermost in the minds of most wine lovers. At one time the problem with learning how to make your own wine was that there were no instructions available and so people had to use trial and error methods. Now-a-days, there is no shortage of instructions that show you how to make your own wine. That being said you must still be very careful about which method you use and furthermore you have to ensure being very careful about succeeding in ...
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- Tips On Shopping For Discount Wine Making Supplies
By: Vance Kardasian | - Though the numbers of people that like to create their own homemade wines continues to grow, there are nevertheless among these large numbers of home wine makers many that are on a very tight budget. The good news for such people is that having a low budget need not be a constraining factor because it is possible to buy discount wine making supplies provided you know what it takes to succeed in this endeavor.
In-Depth Knowledge
The first thing that will strike a ...
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- Tips On How To Buy Wine Making Supplies
By: Vance Kardasian | - There are several important steps that you need to take into account in order to succeed with buying wine making supplies. First of all, you must begin with the basics which mean that though you need not worry about being technological savvy you must first shop for a starter kit or other basic items of equipment. Next, when you go out to buy wine making supplies you must shop for a good wine press that is useful in working with your grapes.
Wine Press
When buying th ...
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- The Wine Bottle - In All Its Shapes And Sizes
By: Eddie Lamb | - A wine bottle is, quite simply, a bottle that is designed and used for holding and preserving wine. These bottles are usually made out of glass, and while some wines are fermented directly into the wine bottle itself, others are only bottled once the fermentation process is complete. Wine bottles are typically sealed closed with a cork or plastic stopper and they come in all shapes and sizes.
Other Important Information on the Wine Bottle
You can even judge and tel ...
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- All About New Zealand Wineries And Wine Producing Regions
By: Ian Love | - New Zealand is a big and charming country with many wineries and wine making regions. In this article, we try to explore some of the best wine producing regions, New Zealand vineyards and other wine events.
Some of the prominent wine producing regions in New Zealand are:
Auckland - It is one of the largest cities of New Zealand with a good population of over 1.5 million people. The tropical climate and the vast land space make it a very ideal place to cultivate v ...
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- The Award Winning Temecula Valley Wine Story
By: MACarticles | - While grapes have been grown and wineries yielding since the early 70s in Temecula Valley, much has changed of late. The Valley itself is bestowed with an ideal climate for accomplishing high quality wine grapes: hot, sunny days; cool evenings; long growing season; and limited rainfall during the growing season. The addition of great draining and decomposed granite soil, led numerous entrepreneurs to Temecula with wine in mind. Names like Callaway swayed the pack with a belief ...
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- What Is The Difference Between Wine And Spirits?
By: Eddie Lamb | - There is an incredible amount of differences between wine and spirits, although it is the similarities between wine and spirits that seems to be more noticed. Wine, on the one hand, is an alcoholic beverage which is produced from the fermentation of fruit juices, particularly that of grapes and the most popular wine producing countries. In order from most to least popular, are: France, Italy, Spain, United States of America, Argentina, China, Australia, South Africa, Germany, and Chile.
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- How To Host A Wine Tasting
By: Maureen Calhoun | - So many choices so little time or knowledge or experimentation. One or all of these dilemmas describe many wine lovers. A fun solution is to host a wine tasting party, where you and your guests can sample different wines and compare them head-to-head.
The first step to an enjoyable wine tasting party is to decide on the mood and theme of the party. Will this be a casual get-together where friends can sample different wines any time during the evening, or will it be a ...
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- Getting The Most From Italian Wine
By: Louise Truswell | - When it comes to wine, Italy is well known for its Chianti and Pinot Grigio. However Italian wine isnt just about these two famous gems. The country offers a huge variety of diverse and unusual wines, while boasting some of the oldest wine growing regions in the world.
Italian Favourites
Possibly Central Italys greatest export, Chianti is the region from where the wine is made. It is a light and easy drinking red wine, made primarily from the San ...
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- All You Need To Know About Spanish Wine
By: Louise Truswell | - If you think of Spain, bullfights, paella and flamenco probably spring to mind. Rioja may also feature well up your list and rightly so, as it contributes to a vast proportion of Spains wine exports and is almost certainly one of, if not, the most well known wine to come out of the country. However Rioja isnt the only wine that Spain produces by any stretch of the imagination. Take time to get to explore the diverse range of stunning Spanish wines on offer - you are sure to be ...
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- Food And Wine Pairing Made Easy!
By: Jennifer de Jong | - If you like to follow the rules then here are two basic ones that should get you through the night:
Rule One: Drink red wine with meat, white wine with fish and poultry.
Rule Two: Disregard rule one and eat and drink what you like. You will hear this over and over again and it's so true. Always go with your personal preference first!
Of course, there are some classic matches that satisfy again and again and bring out the best in both wine and food. Wine ...
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- Everything You Wanted To Know About Wine Glasses But Were Afraid To Ask
By: Jennifer de Jong | - A Brief History of the Wine Glass
Wine glasses have been used since ancient times.
Pliny (23-79 A.D.) wrote about gold and silver drinking vessels being abandoned in favor of glass, and they were frequently priced as high as the precious metal versions. Bonifacio Veronese's sixteenth-century 'Last Supper' includes modern style wine glasses with a stem and foot.
The oldest surviving European wine glasses with a stem and foot are fifteenth-century ename ...
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- Red Wine Basics
By: Jennifer de Jong | - Just as you can imagine the different flavors of steak, chicken, and pork chops without actually eating them, you can learn to imagine the flavors of zinfandel, pinot noir, merlot, and other wine varietals. Being conscious of the differences makes buying wine and pairing it with food much simpler.
PINOT NOIR
Personality: Sensual and understated. Pinot noir is one of the most food friendly red wines, thanks to lots of inherent acidity.
Origin: The Bu ...
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- 4 Easy Steps To Wine Tasting
By: Jennifer de Jong | - Legend has it that Cleopatra once promised Marc Anthony she would "drink the value of a province" in one cup of wine, after which she drank an expensive pearl with a cup of wine. Marilyn Monroe is rumored to have bathed in a bathtub of champagne. The lure of wine is cross-cultural and going strong. Enjoying wine, once surrounded by pomp and circumstance, is now something that many of us do on a daily basis to enjoy food, friends, and family. There is no reason each experience shouldn't be a ...
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- Wine Tasting 101 - What The Heck Does Oaky Mean?
By: Jennifer de Jong | - The use of oak in wine plays a significant role in winemaking and can have a profound effect on the resulting wine, impacting the color, flavor, tannin profile and texture of the wine. Oak can come into contact with wine in the form of a barrel during the fermentation or aging periods. It can be introduced to the wine in the form of free floating oak chips or as wood staves (or sticks) added to wine in a fermentation vessel like stainless steel. Oak introduced in the form of a wine barrel can im ...
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- Host A Wine Tasting Party
By: Jennifer de Jong | - A Wine Tasting Party is an ideal way to get friends and family together to learn about wine and experiment with new or unusual varietals. It can help to break the ice and give your partygoers some great conversation down the line. I myself had a wine tasting bridal shower. Rather than the usual shower games we tried different wine and paired yummy food with it. It was a great icebreaker and gave guest that didn't know each other something to chat about.
There are different ...
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- Barolo - A Noble Wine
By: Jennifer de Jong | - Buying Barolo, whether to drink now or cellar to enjoy its imminent, spectacular maturity, has suddenly become a no-brainer. Thanks to the superb vintages spanning 1995 through 2000, Italy's noblest red wine is enjoying unprecedented prestige.
Barolo is an Italian wine, one of many to claim the title "Wine of kings, and king of wines". It is produced in Cuneo's province, south-west of Alba, within the southern end of Piemonte. Barolo borrows its name from the small hamlet (popula ...
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- German Wine - How To Recognize Quality
By: Jennifer de Jong | - There are two broad quality categories of wine in the European Union: table wine and quality wine. On average, less than five percent of an annual German wine harvest goes into table wine production.
The quality wines from the 13 German wine-growing regions are made from riper grapes and subject to higher standards. Basic quality wines, Qualitatswein b.A. (QbA), and higher quality dry varietals labeled CLASSIC, are great for every day enjoyment and are best consumed while yo ...
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- Understanding Bordeaux
By: Jennifer de Jong | - The wine of Bordeaux is often thought of as the pinnacle of perfection for many wine lovers and wine experts across the world. A prized bottle of 1990 Chateau Petrus will go for about $2500, if you can find it. Bordeaux can be some of the most sought after, lovely, and expensive wine out there. But you need not be scared away. There are MANY high quality bottles of Bordeaux that can be found in any price range. You just have to know how to hunt them down.
When I first started ...
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- Know If Your Wine Is Flawed
By: Jennifer de Jong | - Over the holidays I was out at a very nice restaurant in our town. My friend ordered a glass of wine, swirled it, took a little sniffand then made a very funny scrunched up face. Her wine was flawed. She could tell immediately. This started a chain reaction within our crew. About three other friends smelled theirs and started passing the glasses around saying, "Is this flawed? I think mine is flawed?" I took a whiff of each of them and the only one that seemed truly flawed to me was ...
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